Oklahoma's Indian new deal / Jon S. Blackman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Blackman, Jon S., 1946-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Oklahoma Welfare Act.

United States.

Indians of North America--Legal status, laws, etc--History--20th century.

Indians of North America.

Indians of North America--Legal status, laws, etc--Oklahoma--History--20th century.

Indians of North America--Legal status, laws, etc.

History.

Oklahoma.

Physical Description:

ix, 225 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, 2013.

Summary:

Among the New Deal programs that transformed American life in the 1930s was the legislation known as the Indian New Deal, whose centerpiece was the Indian Reorganization Act (IRA) of 1934. Oddly, much of that law did not apply to Native residents of Oklahoma, even though a large percentage of the country's Native American population resided there in the 1930s. The Oklahoma Indian Welfare Act (OIWA) of 1936 brought Oklahoma Indians under all of the IRA's provisions, but included other measures that applied only to the state's tribal population. This first book-length history of the OIWA explains the law's origins, enactment, implementation, and impact, and it shows how the act played a unique role in the Indian New Deal. The OIWA specified how tribes could strengthen their governments by adopting new constitutions, and it enabled both tribes and individual Indians to obtain financial credit and land. Virulent opposition to the bill came from oil, timber, mining, farming, and ranching interests. Jon S. Blackman chronicles the legislative battle and analyzes the law's mixed results. Although it did not produce a significant increase in Indian land ownership in Oklahoma, the act increased member participation in tribal affairs, enhanced Indian relations with non-Indian businesses and government, promoted greater Indian influence in government programs-and, as Blackman shows, became a springboard to the self-determination movements of the 1950s and 1960s. Book jacket.

Contents:

Removal to Indian Territory

The winds of change

The Indian new deal

Oklahoma's newer new deal

Revival

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780806143514

0806143517

OCLC:

815758088