1. Roosevelt Lake
"If there could be any monument which would appeal to any man, surely this is it. You could not have done anything which would have pleased and touched me more than to name this great dam, this reservoir site, after me, and I thank you from my heart for having done so... As soon as it was done (the National Reclamation Act signed into law), ...I said, now I want this work divided fairly... and as Arizona and New Mexico have not any senators or congressmen and as I raised three-fourths of my regiment (Rough Riders) in New Mexico and Arizona, I will take their place, and now I want to see that they get a fair deal." 

3. Life and Effects on Minority Groups
The New Deal Continued
Life and Effects on Minority Groups

4. Life for African Americans in the Great Depression
Switched their vote from Republican to Democrat
FDR gave into discrimination
Didn’t pursue Civil Rights for fear of losing votes in congress
The Federal Housing Authority didn’t give mortgages to African Americans in white neighborhoods.

5. Continued Discrimination
Although the CCC employed many African American men, they were still in segregated camps
The AAA caused many sharecroppers to lose their jobs
Still no support for anti-lynching bills
Some African Americans in FDR’s administration

7. Life for Mexicans During the Depression
About 400,000 Mexicans including citizens were shipped to Mexico
Reduce relief
Migrant workers rounded up and deported
Texas and LA lost 1/3 of the Mexican populations
Thousands more left voluntarily
Some relief through the CCC and WPA

9. Native Americans during the Great Depression
The Indian New Deal
John Collier – commissioner of Indian Affairs
Indian Emergency Conservation Program
CCC and WPA

10. Indian Reorganization Act
The Meriam Report
Ended the Dawes Allotment Act
Returned “surplus” land
Self governance and tribal constitutions
Repealed prohibition on Native languages and culture

11. Why the Navajo hate John Collier
After their introduction by the Spanish, sheep quickly became an important part of Navajo culture.
Sheep were not simply an impersonal herd
For the Navajo, each animal had its own personality and characteristics.
The wealth of a clan was counted by the size of its flock of sheep.
In 1934, federal bureaucrats determined that Navajo Nation land was being overgrazed and ordered that the Navajo herds be reduced.

13. Stock Reductions
On the Navajo Reservation, 148,000 goats and 50,000 sheep were sold.
Not all of the goats could be delivered to the railhead, therefore some were slaughtered and the dried meat given back to the Navajo.
Goats were simply shot and left to rot while some were shot and partially cremated by soaking them with gasoline and lighting it.
In some instances, federal agents went out to the herds and often shot the animals before the eyes of astonished, grieving families.
For the Navajo, this uncaring attitude toward a valuable resource seemed almost incomprehensible.
The women, who were the owners of the herds, intensely criticized and condemned the government program.