Bureau of Indian Affairs
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The Bureau of Indian Affairs, also known as Indian Affairs, is a United States federal agency within the Department of the Interior. It is responsible for implementing federal laws and policies relate
Main Interior Building, the department headquarters
Ely S. Parker was the first Native American to be appointed as Commissioner of Indian affairs (1869–1871).
Cato Sells, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, 1913
1940 Indians at Work magazine, published by the Office of Indian Affairs, predecessor agency to the Bureau of Indian Affairs
Ely S. Parker
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Ely Samuel Parker, born Hasanoanda, later known as Donehogawa, was a United States Army general and a commissioner of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. He was bilingual, speaking both Seneca and English,
Bureau of Indian Affairs
…position of Commissioner of Indian Affairs. In 1849 Indian Affairs was transferred to the newly established U.S. Department of the Interior. In 1869, Ely Samuel Parker was the first Native American to be appointed as commissioner of Indian affairs. One of the most controversial policies of the Bureau of Indian Affairs…
Ely S. Parker
Surrender at Appomattox, a portrait depicting Confederate Army general Robert E. Lee's surrender to Union Army general Ulysses S. Grant with Parker in the back row (third from right)