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Show CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION As the American Indian has been crowded out of the thousands ing of required by his primitive methods of wrest acres from the living a earth, even to the Indian that ture or be he the or cases tribes have Trends are all of away the the tribal members. formed tribal In other tribes acculturated and competent, and each Indian is deemed necessary, vidual responsibilities Each year last from cuI- several old iso the of the United councils which more as and an where this the Indians states. assume stage ating social problems districts and are of more has not been already assuming his indi- independent citizen. more Indian children are public schools in the states where they reside, school apparent man's the white protectors of the economic and social interests role of the adapt to full-fledged citizens as the educated, policy become gradually wardship and toward integration and assimilation of tribal members In many must has gradually extinguished. decades in Federal Indian lation it sometimes economic and communities concerned. attending often cre problems in the A recent (1958) study states: Bureau of Indian Affairs has committed itself to of arranging for the transfer of Indian children from Federal to public schools as rapidly as is feasible. This transfer has been going on for many years and is at The a policy present being accelerated.1 |
