Time to abolish the BIA
Time to abolish the BIA
Why this petition matters
President Obama promised that as president his Indian policy would start with honoring the unique government-to-government relationship tribes are entitled to have with the United States. He also committed to a Native American policy adviser on his staff and to holding an annual summit to ensure tribal needs are met.
"The BIA (Bureau of Indian Affairs) sometimes acts like a bureaucracy that it´s not aware of what happens in the day to day lives of Indian people, he said. We need to shake up that bureaucracy," he said..."
"With the proposed Cobell settlement costing taxpayers billions of dollars and the trillions of dollars already spent on Indian Country, we still live in poverty and hopelessness. If statistics are a testament, please take the time to review the statistics for Indian Country and make a decision to do what is right... "Abolish the (BIA)." [Closing remarks]