Bureau of Indian Affairs

noun

, U.S. Government.

1. a division of the Department of the Interior that administers federal programs benefiting Native American peoples. : BIA

Example Sentences

In efforts to eventually dissolve reservations and open these lands to private development, for example, in 1952 the U.S. government launched the Voluntary Relocation Program, in which the Bureau of Indian Affairs persuaded many living on reservations to move to cities.

From Salon

Bureau of Indian Affairs to place the land into a federal trust, which would allow the tribe and investors who own the property to build a $700-million casino resort on it.

From Los Angeles Times

A spokesman from the Bureau of Indian Affairs assistant secretary’s office said the agency had no further comment about the project beyond the one-page email it sent The Times confirming that the 30-day public comment period for an environmental impact review is underway.

From Los Angeles Times

Bureau of Indian Affairs died by himself far from his native Navajo Nation on a blistering Phoenix sidewalk the morning after he left a detox facility and went binge drinking.

From Seattle Times

Adams also negotiated peaceful ends to some of the most dangerous standoffs in modern Indian history, including negotiations with the Nixon White House to resolve the takeover of the Bureau of Indian Affairs building in Washington, D.C., by tribal activists in 1972, and a 10-week siege of Wounded Knee, S.D., in 1973.

From Seattle Times