Talk:Bureau of Indian Affairs

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Contents 1 Some Balance Please 2 This is pathetic! 3 BIA Website Availability 4 Indian agents 5 Yikes! 6 references

[edit] Some Balance Please

In addition to a criticism section, this article needs to mention the thousands of hard working and well meaning teachers, nurses and doctors that have worked to educate and enrich the lives of Native Americans over the decades this agency has been in existence. Have they all been good people? No! Have they always done the right thing in our “politically enlightened” eyes? No! But many of them felt they were doing the best they could to help. And in many cases they made a positive difference. Ask the many tribal leaders and state politicians that were educated by Bureau teachers. Ask the many people whose lives were saved in Indian Health Service Hospitals. And ask yourself where would Native Americans be now if not for the bureau? Many tribes would simply have ceased to exist; gobbled up by their surrounding state governments. Was it a good system? No, but it was better than total neglect. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.202.96.27 (talk) 19:29, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] This is pathetic!

This article is barely beyond a stub. I can't imagine a very short history and description is satisfactorily. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 63.230.54.237 (talk) 06:55, August 20, 2007 (UTC)

[edit] BIA Website Availability

In a notice on the Bureau of Indian Affairs website it clearly states the BIA website and email servers are down until further notice due to the Cobell Litigation. You cannot navigate to any of the BIA pages therefore this notice should stay up. The only thing apparently that is available on this page is Non-BIA related pages. In the future before making reverts or changes regarding the BIA website please post a message here first for discussion. Misterrick 02:49, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Indian agents

We don't yet have an article Indian agent and the term is not even mentioned in this article. - Jmabel | Talk 07:43, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Yikes!

Granted, I was just skimming this article, but I don't see a single word of criticism here. What is up with that? This article needs serious expansion including a criticism section. And why isn't the AIM occupation of their offices mentioned in the history section? Ok, I should stop complaining and actually do something, but I'm too busy writing a term paper due in about 8 hours on the occupation of Alcatraz, so I gotta get back to work. But this really needs to be addressed. And on a related note, the Alcatraz article could due with some expanding--heck, the occupation deserves its own article IMO. Ungovernable Force^{Got something to say?} 10:34, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] references

Shouldn't this website cite its references? There are no source citations whatsoever. Isn't that a pretty major Wikipedia guideline?? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Macduffman (talk • contribs) 20:04, 25 March 2008 (UTC)