American Indians and Their Governments

Theodore W. Taylor joined the Bureau of Indian Affairs in 1950 and was Deputy Commissioner from 1966 to 1970. For seven years, he served as Assistant to the Secretary, Smithsonian Institution. His book, The States and Their Indian Citizens (Washington D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1972), was completed while he was a Federal Executive Fellow with the Brookings Institution (1970–1971). As Executive Officer for the Office of Territories and Island Possessions from 1946 to 1950 he came in contact with native populations and studied their government relations in Hawaii, Alaska, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and the Trust Territory of the Pacific. He is now teaching at George Washington University.