Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal program was geared to help those people most
affected by the Great Depression.  Indians benefited greatly from the $11
billion spent on such programs as the Works Progress Administration, the
National Recovery Act, and the Indian Reorganization Act.  Roosevelt's
concern for the well-being and rights of Native Americans began long
before his presidency.  Throughout his life, he took an interest in the
plight of the Indians.  This 1921 photograph, taken at Campobello, in New
Brunswick, Canada, shows Roosevelt meeting with Governor Neptune, an
Iroquois chief.