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American Indian Nations from Termination to Restoration, 1953-2006

American Indian Nations from Termination to Restoration, 1953-2006

Ulrich, Roberta

Paperback

Native American History20th Century United States History21st Century United States History

ISBN10: 0803271573
ISBN13: 9780803271579
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: Jan 1 2013
Pages: 334
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.40
Language: English

When the U.S. government ended its relationship with dozens of Native American tribes and bands between 1953 and 1966, it was in fact engaging in a massive social experiment. Congress enacted the program, known as termination, in the name of freeing the Indians from government restrictions and improving their quality of life. Eliminating the federal status of more than nine dozen tribes across the country, however, plunged many of their nearly thirteen thousand members into even deeper levels of poverty and eroded the tribal people's sense of Native identity. Beginning in 1973 and extending over a twenty-year period, the terminated tribes, one by one, persuaded Congress to restore their ties to the federal government. Nonetheless, so much damage had been done that even today the restored tribes struggle to overcome the problems created by those terminations more than half a century ago.

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