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1924 American Indians granted U.S. citizenship Inspired by the high rate of American Indian enlistment during World War I, President Calvin Coolidge ... |
1924 Medical division established in Office of Indian Affairs The Office of Indian Affairs creates a separate medical division to administer the growing number of ... |
1924 Professional nurses hired for reservations The Office of Indian Affairs begins hiring professional field nurses to care for Native peoples on reservations. |
1927 Clean water, sewers needed on most reservations After a century of the federal government moving American Indians onto reservations with inadequate ... |
1928 Government underreports American Indian deaths Lead investigator Lewis Meriam publishes The Problem of Indian Administration , documenting the failure ... |
1931 Alaska Native health care transferred to U.S. Office of Indian Affairs The U.S. Office of Indian Affairs takes over responsibility for Alaska Native health care from the Territory ... |
1934 Commissioner calls for religious freedom for American Indians Commissioner of Indian Affairs, John Collier, issues a circular on American Indian religious freedom, ... |
1936 Federal recognition extended to Alaska Native villages With the Alaska Native Reorganization Act, an amendment of the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934, the ... |
1940 Doctors leave reservations to enlist Office of Indian Affairs physicians and surgeons begin leaving Indian reservation hospitals to serve ... |
1941–45 American Indian war effort in World War II is remarkable American Indians have the war’s highest rate of voluntary enlistment in the military. Of 350,000 American ... |