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    The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), also known as Indian Affairs (IA), is a United States federal agency within the Department of the Interior. It is...
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    The Bureau of Indian Affairs Police, Office of Justice Services (BIA or BIA-OJS), also known as BIA Police, is the law enforcement arm of the United States...
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    The Bureau of Indian Education (BIE), headquartered in the Main Interior Building in Washington, D.C., and formerly known as the Office of Indian Education...
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    legally recognized as Pueblo by the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Some of the pueblos also came under the jurisdiction of the United States, in its view, by...
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    volumes produced by the Bureau of Indian Affairs 1955–1956: Kiersch, George A. (1956) Mineral Resources, Navajo-Hopi Indian Reservations, Arizona-Utah:...
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    January 8, 2024[update], 574 Indian tribes were legally recognized by the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) of the United States. Of these, 228 are located in...
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    reservations. The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) also founded additional off-reservation boarding schools. Similarly to schools that taught speakers of immigrant...
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  • The Confederate States Bureau of Indian Affairs was a subdivision of the Confederate States War Department established in 1861 to handle the duties the...
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    Native Americans through the Secretary of State, rather than the Bureau of Indian Affairs. The Bureau of Indian Affairs reports on its website that its "responsibility...
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    Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians requires at least 1/16 degree of Eastern Cherokee blood for tribal membership, whereas the Bureau of Indian Affairs' Higher...
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    States Bureau of Indian Affairs as holding a government-to-government relationship with the US federal government. For Alaska Native tribes, see list of Alaska...
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    Miwok (category Indigenous peoples of California)
    Clear Lake basin of Lake County Bay Miwok: from present-day location of Contra Costa County The United States Bureau of Indian Affairs officially recognizes...
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    Richard James Hart (category United States Bureau of Indian Affairs personnel)
    agent for the Bureau of Indian Affairs, in which capacity he sought out illegal alcohol on Indian reservations, until he was convicted of manslaughter...
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    Recognition". Office of Congressional and Legislative Affairs. US Department of the Interior. Retrieved 23 November 2021. Bureau of Indian Affairs, Interior (30...
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  • Lumbee (redirect from Lumbee Indians)
    a tribe. The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) sent John R. Swanton, an anthropologist from the Bureau of American Ethnology, and the Indian Agent Fred Baker...
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    administered by the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs, and not to the U.S. state government in which it is located. Some of the country's 574 federally...
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    a review of membership and descent across several families. Kelly personally reviewed the confusing records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs in Everett...
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    Buzzy Peltola (category United States Bureau of Indian Affairs personnel)
    Alaska director for the Bureau of Indian Affairs and manager of the Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge. He was the husband of Congresswoman Mary Peltola...
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    Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers (category Wikipedia articles incorporating content from public domain works of the United States Department of Homeland Security)
    of Housing and Urban Development Office of the Inspector General Protective Services Division Department of Interior Bureau of Indian Affairs Bureau of...
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    "descent from a historic Indian tribe." The Branch of Acknowledgment and Research, Bureau of Indian Affairs determined that only 2% of the group's membership...
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    Zachariah Chandler (category 19th-century mayors of places in Michigan)
    at the Bureau of Indian Affairs and fired and replaced the Indian Commissioner and Bureau Clerk. In addition, Secretary Chandler banned "Indian Attorneys"...
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    The Ministry of Home Affairs (IAST: Gṛha Mantrālaya), or simply the Home Ministry, is a ministry of the Government of India. It is mainly responsible for...
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  • Tripartite State of Affairs: The Timbisha Shoshone Tribe, the National Park Service, and the Bureau of Indian Affairs, 1934–1994," American Indian Culture and...
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  • L. Sloan, (Omaha), attorney; Charles Edwin Dagenett, (Peoria), Bureau of Indian Affairs supervisor; Laura Cornelius Kellogg, (Oneida), educator; and Henry...
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  • integration of Native peoples into mainstream society, and the 1952 House Report (HR No. 2503), investigating the Bureau of Indian Affairs, both portrayed...
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    Justice Services Bureau of Indian Affairs Police Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Office of Law Enforcement & Security United States Bureau of Reclamation (BOR)...
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  • Thumbnail for Carlisle Indian Industrial School
    students. Carlisle emerged as the model for 26 off-reservation Bureau of Indian Affairs boarding schools that were ultimately developed in 15 states and...
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  • Bureau of Indian Affairs' recognition criterion for groups with a "continuous political authority." To address these concerns, in 1993, a group of Lumbee...
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  • Thumbnail for Indian Reorganization Act
    significant initiative of John Collier, who was President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Commissioner of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) from 1933 to 1945...
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    services from the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Moreover, according to the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Federally Recognized Indian Tribe List Act, there...
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