John Collier%2C reforming commissioner of the Bureau of Indian Affairs%2C the oldest agency in the US Interior Department%2C meets with members of the Blackfeet Nation in 1934.  Collier%2C a controversial figure%2C tried to reverse centuries of racist and genocidal policies toward native people through the %26quot%3BIndian New Deal%26quot%3B which was itself flawed and met with hostility from indigenous people who felt he perpetuated his own patriarchal%2C racist stereotypes. Photo courtesy Library of Congress
John Collier%2C reforming commissioner of the Bureau of Indian Affairs%2C the oldest agency in the US Interior Department%2C meets with members of the Blackfeet Nation in 1934. Collier%2C a controversial figure%2C tried to reverse centuries of racist and genocidal policies toward native people through the %26quot%3BIndian New Deal%26quot%3B which was itself flawed and met with hostility from indigenous people who felt he perpetuated his own patriarchal%2C racist stereotypes. Photo courtesy Library of Congress