The reservations of the Indian - broken beyond repair?

Bernstein

The Bureau of Indian Affairs was created in 1824 by the War Department of the U.S. government. Its main function was to control Native American opposition to white American expansion into Indian lands.

The bureau became a part of the Interior Department in 1849, and the concept of containing the Indians within a system of reservations became official government policy.

Today, the bureau costs U.S. taxpayers about $3 billion dollars a year. Its primary purpose seems to be to attempt to legitimize the 200-year-old injustices suffered by the Indians at the hands of the U.S. governmen...