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EQUALLY with other citizens of the United States, the American Indian is benefiting under the ‘New Deal'. An. appropriation has been made to purchase for his benefit some of the land in Oklahoma now in the possession of the whites, which formerly belonged to Indian tribesmen. The prospects of the Indians have now much improved under the legislation promoted by the Hon. John Collier, Commissioner for Indian Affairs since 1932. He was largely responsible for the passing of the Wheeler-Howard Act in 1933, under the provisions of which an attempt is being made to promote the prosperity of the Indian on lines in accord with the tradition of tribal culture, and to revert, so far as is now possible, to the system of group tenure of land, which was broken up in the mistaken efforts of a previous generation to develop the Indian standard of life by individual grants of land. The provisions of the new legislation and its relation to existing conditions are summarised by Dr. Wilton Marion Krogman of the Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (Z. Bassenkunde, 3, 1).
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American Indians and the Land. Nature 137, 607 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137607c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/137607c0