The Indian New Deal affected Native Americans in a positive and negative way. The New Deal had granted citizenship to Native Americans. John Collier was the Comissioner of the Indian Affairs and he also embarked on an ambitious program that became known as the Indian New Deal. With funding from the federal agencies, he hired Native Americans to build needed schools, hospitals, and irregation systems. Collier hoped to put reservations under Indian control, stop sales of Native American lands, and encourage Indian schools to teach Native Americans history and the arts with an act called the IRA(Indian Reorganization Act). Congress had approved part of Collier’s plan in the IRA of 1934. The IRA did restrict tribal land sales, but it failed to
