Wheeler-Howard Act (Indian Reorganization Act) shifts U.S. policy toward Native American right to self-determination on June 18, 1934.
Secretary of Interior Harold Ickes handing first constitution issued under Indian Reorganization Act to delegates of Confederated Tribes of the Flathead Indian Reservation, 1935 Courtesy US Library of Congress (LC-USZ62-115958) The Wheeler-Howard Act (Indian Reorganization Act) of 1934 was enacted to give native Americans back the power over their own lands and to establish their native way of life. As explained in this article Wheeler-Howard Act . In 1879 Richard Pratt established the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania, his famous quote was, "Kill the Indian in him and save the man". The US government forced 100,00 or more Native American children to attend assimilation boarding schools similar to Pratt's in the hope to rid them of the native values, traditions, beliefs and langua...