美国政府对印第安人的重新安置及其城市化

The Relocation Program and the Urbanization of American Indians

重新安置印第安人的计划是美国政府为鼓励印第安人离开保留地向城市移居而于1948年制订的,它旨在通过联邦政府的帮助,将印第安人安置到城市。计划的推行,一方面加速了印第安农村人口向城市的聚集,另方面也扩大了城市生活方式对保留地的影响。在战后美国印第安人的城市化进程中,重新安置计划发挥了重要作用。

This article analyses why the U.S. federal government carried out the relocation program and how the program affected the urbanization of American Indians. The aim of the federal government was to lighten the burden on itself, assimilate Indians into the Majority and solve the Indian problem thoroughly. By the help of the program, more and more Indians had their social environment and skills changed. The program accelerated the process of American Indians' migration to cities,helped them to understand the urban life, fosted their urban quality,pushed forward the change of their life style, quickened the urbanization of their ideas. In a word, the relocation program speeded up the modernization of Ameriean Indians.