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