The Meriam Report (1924)

Question 1

What was the report partially in response to?

Answer 1

Further encroachment onto reservation lands where there was likely to be oil fields.

Question 2

What did the report condemn?

Answer 2

The allotment policy for depriving Natives of their land and failing to provide them with financial aid.

Question 3

What did the report find?

Answer 3

• Indians were the most impoverished group in the US.

- the forced assimilation robbed them of self esteem and destroyed their families and communities.

Question 4

What did President Hoover do?

Answer 4

Supported recommendations of report and appointed a new Indian commissioner to put together a reform package.