An Act To provide for the care and support of insane persons in the Indian Territory (1904)
An Act To provide for the care and support of insane persons in the Indian Territory.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to make proper arrangements for the care and support of insane persons in the Indian Territory, and for that purpose the sum of twenty five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated: Provided, however, That insane Indians in said Territory shall be cared for at the asylum at Canton, Lincoln County, South'Dakota.
Approved, April 28, 1904.
- Title
- An Act To provide for the care and support of insane persons in the Indian Territory (1904)
- Description
- This act weaponized Western medical diagnoses against tribal citizens in Indian Territory for the purpose of incarceration and confinement. Nearly four hundred Native people, from fifty different nations, were confined to the Canton Asylum during its operation from 1902-1934.
- Date
- 1904-04-28
- Author
- United States. Congress
- Temporal Coverage
- Jim Crow Era
- Progressive Era
- Long Civil Rights Movement
- Allotment and Assimilation Era
- Exclusion Era
- Document Type
- Act of Congress
- Document Category
- Primary Source
- Bluebook Citation
- Act of April 28, 1904, ch. 1787, 33 Stat. 539 (1904)
- Digital Repository
- Library of Congress
- Title
- An Act To provide for the care and support of insane persons in the Indian Territory (1904)
- Description
- This act weaponized Western medical diagnoses against tribal citizens in Indian Territory for the purpose of incarceration and confinement. Nearly four hundred Native people, from fifty different nations, were confined to the Canton Asylum during its operation from 1902-1934.
- Date
- 1904-04-28
- Author
- United States. Congress
- Temporal Coverage
- Jim Crow Era
- Progressive Era
- Long Civil Rights Movement
- Allotment and Assimilation Era
- Exclusion Era
- Document Type
- Act of Congress
- Document Category
- Primary Source
- Bluebook Citation
- Act of April 28, 1904, ch. 1787, 33 Stat. 539 (1904)
- Digital Repository
- Library of Congress