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...John Collier became executive secretary of the American Indian Defense Association in 1923 and promptly tackled Albert B. ("Teapot Dome") Fall, then Secretary of the Interior, who was pushing hard for legislation to make the Indians Christians and also to open all of their lands to squatters. Fall's laws never passed, and Collier hoped for better times under President Herbert Hoover. But in John Collier's bitter summary, "Hoover didn't give a damn about the Indians either." New Deal for Redskins. By the time the New Deal had come to Washington, Collier was the No.11...
They were largely paupers. Collier determined to make the Indians mainly self-governing and selfsupporting, to go back a little way to their old culture and the better features of their own kind of community life...
...Collier's Reorganization Act, adopted by Congress in 1934 over the fierce opposition of lumbermen and ranchers (who stood to lose valuable leaseholds by it), opened the way. Indians finally had the use of their tribal holdings and the right to extend them. Also each reservation could, by majority vote, incorporate its business affairs under federal charter and secure a constitution...
...John Collier, who neither hunts, fishes, nor speaks any Indian language, is moderately pleased with what has happened since then. The Indians' income is up 300%, their death rate down from 28 (in 1928) to 13.5 per thousand...
Since 1900 their population has increased 53% (from 237,000 to 377,000*). John Collier, who hopes to establish an organization to help all U.S. minorities, thinks that eventually his Indian friends can become happily integrated with the U.S. economy. "But," says he, "the main thing now is that at least they have a will to live...