The Indian Reorganization Act was a piece of American legislature enacted by the U.S. Congress in 1934. The Act sought to end the sale of the Indigenous lands to incoming settlers, and to return surplus lands to Indigenous communities. Subsequently, “millions of additional acres were added to reservations” (Encyclopedia Britannica), and the economic positions of many Indigenous communities improved. Broadly, the Act brought forth increased self-government to Indigenous communities and vast reforms to the state of reservations.
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