Thomas Lorraine McKenney, a Quaker, started in improve the civil, moral and religious condition of the 1816 as the first Superintendent of Indian Trade, and was Indians, injustices in acquiring Indian lands and furs, “one of the key figures in the development of early American and devastating wars against the natives. [...] The military and the frontier settlers were (BIA) was created within the Department of War in 1824, the primary advocates of the former, and the churches the primarily to administer the funds to the churches from the latter. [...] Although a clear and obvious violation of the Board of Indian Commissioners principle of separation of church and state, none of the and the Peace Policy of 1869 leaders of the day believed the principle applied to Native Americans. [...] The passage of the 1972 Indian Education Act, boarding school, a fence separated the older and younger followed by the creation of the Office of Indian Education students, and communication between siblings across the in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare to fence was impossible. [...] One hundred and thirty of these are tribally controlled under the auspices of the Indian Self-Determination and the Education Assistance act of 1975 and 1953; the Bureau of Indian Education operates the rest.
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