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1924American Indians granted U.S. citizenshipInspired by the high rate of American Indian enlistment during World War I, President Calvin Coolidge ...- 1924Medical division established in Office of Indian AffairsThe Office of Indian Affairs creates a separate medical division to administer the growing number of ...
1924Professional nurses hired for reservationsThe Office of Indian Affairs begins hiring professional field nurses to care for Native peoples on reservations.- 1927Clean water, sewers needed on most reservationsAfter a century of the federal government moving American Indians onto reservations with inadequate ...
- 1928Government underreports American Indian deathsLead investigator Lewis Meriam publishes The Problem of Indian Administration , documenting the failure ...
1934Commissioner calls for religious freedom for American IndiansCommissioner of Indian Affairs, John Collier, issues a circular on American Indian religious freedom, ...- 1940Doctors leave reservations to enlistOffice of Indian Affairs physicians and surgeons begin leaving Indian reservation hospitals to serve ...
1941–45American Indian war effort in World War II is remarkableAmerican Indians have the war’s highest rate of voluntary enlistment in the military. Of 350,000 American ...
1946Judicial commission adjudicates Native land claimsThe federal government recognizes that American Indians, many of whom served in the armed forces during ...- 1947Office of Indian Affairs upgraded to bureauThe Office of Indian Affairs is upgraded to a governmental bureau, and renamed the Bureau of Indian ...
