
Notes from Indian Country
What political party did most Native Americans choose and why?
Monday, September 28, 2020
The Great Depression of the 1930s hit Indian reservations particularly hard. Tribes were already struggling to survive under all of the new laws and restrictions placed upon them by the United States Government heading into the depression.
The reservation system was in its formative years and the government and the Indian tribes were adjusting to the rapid changes impacting the lives of thousands of Native Americans. Indians did not become United States citizens with the right to vote or run for public office until 1924, just a few years heading into the Great Depression.
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt introduced the CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) and the WPA (Works Progress Administration) in order to create jobs and to get America back on its feet.


Tim Giago (Oglala Lakota) has been a newspaper publisher for 40 years and was the founder of the Native American Journalists Association. Contact him at najournalist1@gmail.com.
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