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Uprooted: The 1950’s plan to erase Indian Country

Quoted: But the tens of thousands of Native Americans who served in the military were largely unable to access the education and mortgage benefits guaranteed by the GI Bill. “Employees of [Veterans Affairs] quite frequently directed American Indian veterans to the Bureau of Indian Affairs to access relocation rather than provide American Indian veterans with the GI Bill benefits,” says Kasey Keeler, a historian at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.