1824

Office of Indian Affairs established in the War Department

United States; Indigenous nations

A permanent federal office centralized relations with Indigenous nations within the military department. It became an administrative instrument of removal, reservation policy, and later assimilation.

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Context / qualification

Institutional context; the office’s establishment is not itself proof that every later action had the same intent.

Sources

• Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States (2014), chapter 6

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