If you could bring Senator Burton Wheeler, who was a progressive Democrat, or Chairman Edgar Howard, the Chairman of the House Indian Committee, back from the dead, and tell them that 80 years later Congress was creating Indian tribes like the Graton Rancheria in statutes, or that the BIA was creating Indian tribes like the Cowlitzes out in Washington, they would be, first, astounded, and then outraged.
Mitchell discusses the historical intent of the Indian Reorganization Act and modern implications.
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