An excerpt from The New Day for the Indians, an analysis of the successes of the Indian Reorganization Act, published in 1938.

This publication described the problems the Indian Reorganization Act (IRA) was designed to solve and the degree of success the Bureau of Indian Affairs had in implementing solutions. This excerpt describes the IRA in some detail and was written by three individuals with strong ties to the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Each of these authors was a reformer.

Citation Information
Nash, Jay Bryan, excerpt from “The new day for the Indians; a survey of the working of the Indian reorganization act of 1934,” Digital Public Library of America, https://dp.la/item/ac5a2daa844eea2cdc7808df5b11f832.
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