Native Agency : Indians in the Bureau of Indian Affairs 2006 a bracingly honest look at

a bracingly honest look at a long-ignored part of American life

new chapters on community partnership and capacity building

and the role of Elders

and his family’s fight to return home

Peter Robinson

Native Agency : Indians in the Bureau of Indian Affairs 2006 a bracingly honest look atThe Bureau of Indian Affairs was hatched in the U. S. Department of War to subjugate and eliminate American Indians. Yet beginning in the 1970s, American Indians and Alaska Natives took over and now run the agency. Choctaw anthropologist Valerie Lambert argues that, instead of fulfilling settler colonial goals, the Indians in the BIA have been leveraging federal power to fight settler colonialism, battle white supremacy, and serve the interests of