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- - - - Why did private agencies want indian children to "fit in"?
        
        Private agencies removed Indian children for their homes because apparently children were being neglected but this was the reason they gave because they were in lower class. They completely stripped the Indian children from their culture and beliefs and putting them with white families.
        
        By 1840, tens of thousands of Native Americans had been driven off of their land in the southeastern states and forced to move across the Mississippi to Indian territory. The federal government promised that their new land would remain unmolested forever, but as the line of white settlement pushed westward, “Indian country” shrank and shrank. In 1907, Oklahoma became a state and Indian territory was gone for good. http://www.history.com/topics/native-american-history/trail-of-tears
        
        Andrew Jackson had long been an advocate of what he called “Indian removal.” As an Army general, he had spent years leading brutal campaigns against the Creeks in Georgia and Alabama and the Seminoles in Florida–campaigns that resulted in the transfer of hundreds of thousands of acres of land from Indian nations to white farmers. As president, he continued this crusade. In 1830, he signed the Indian Removal Act
- - - - "The lack of economic development on reservations is a major factor in creating the extreme poverty, unemployment, and the accompanying social issues that Indian nations face."
        
        https://www.bia.gov/frequently-asked-questions
        
        The Indian reservation system was created to keep Native Americans off of lands that European Americans wished to settle.
        The reservation system allowed Indian tribes to govern themselves and to maintain some of their cultural and social traditions.
        https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/ap-us-history/period-6/apush-american-west/a/the-reservation-system
        
        There is a housing crisis in Indian country. Despite the Indian Housing Authority's (IHAs) recent efforts, the need for adequate housing on reservations remains acute. One legislator deplored the fact that “there are 90,000 homeless or underhoused Indian families, and that 30% of Indian housing is overcrowded and less than 50% of it is connected to a public sewer.” (March 8, 2004, Indian Country Today).
        http://www.nativepartnership.org/site/PageServer?pagename=naa_livingconditions
        
        Many tribes have constitutions, others operate under articles of association or other bodies of law, and some have found a way to combine their traditional systems of government within a modern governmental framework. Some do not operate under any of these acts, but are nevertheless organized under documents approved by the Secretary of the Interior. Contemporary tribal governments are usually, but not always, modeled upon the federal system of the three branches: Legislative, Executive, and Judicial.
- - - - Amendment I - Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.