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The Indian Relocation Act of 1956 (also known as Public Law 959 or the Adult Vocational Training Program) was a United States law intended to encourage Native Americans in the United States to leave Indian reservations, acquire vocational skills, and assimilate into the general population. Part of the Indian termination policy of that era, it played a significant role in increasing the population of urban Indians in succeeding decades.〔Rebecca L. Robbins, "Self-Determination and Subordination: the Past, Present, and Future of American Indian Governance" (87:122) in M. Annette Jaimes (editor), ''The State of Native America: Genocide, Colonization, and Resistance'', South End Press, ISBN 0-89608-424-8. p. 99.〕〔(Employment Assistance Program ), The United Sioux Tribes of South Dakota Development Corporation. Accessed online 2009-05-04.〕〔(Information on Chippewa Indians Turtle Mountain Reservation ), Turtle Mountain Agency, Bureau of Indian Affairs. Belcourt, North Dakota. Accessed online 2009-05-04.〕〔(History and Facts ), Phoenix Indian Center. Accessed online 2009-05-04.〕 At a time when the U.S. government was decreasing subsidies to Indians living on reservations, the Relocation Act offered to pay moving expenses and provide some vocational training for those who were willing to move from the reservations to certain government-designated cities.〔 Types of assistance included relocation transportation,transportation of household goods, subsistence per diem for both the time of relocation and up to 4 weeks after arrival, and funds to purchase tools or equipment for apprentice workers. Additional benefits included: medical insurance for workers and their dependents, grants to purchase work clothing, grants to purchase household goods and furniture, tuition costs for vocational night school training, and in some cases funds to help purchase a home.〔http://www.bia.gov/cs/groups/public/documents/text/idc016139.pdf〕 ==Background== In 1947, Secretary of the Interior, Julius Krug, at the request of President Truman, proposed a ten-year program to provide the Hopi and Navajo tribes with vocational training. In 1950, the Navajo-Hopi Law was passed which funded a program to help relocate tribe members to Los Angeles, Salt Lake City and Denver and help them find jobs. In 1951 the Bureau of Indian Affairs began expanding the program and assigned relocation workers to Oklahoma, New Mexico, California, Arizona, Utah and Colorado officially extending the program to all Indians the following year. In 1955, additional offices in Cleveland, Dallas, Minneapolis, Oklahoma City, St. Louis, the San Francisco Bay area, San Jose, Seattle, and Tulsa were added. The plan of assimilation that was followed assumed mainstreaming would be easier in metropolitan areas. Quotas were implemented for processing relocatees. By 1954 approximately 6200 Native Americans had been relocated to cities. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Indian Relocation Act of 1956」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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