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Title

Termination's legacy : the discarded Indians of Utah / R. Warren Metcalf.

Author

Metcalf, R. Warren, 1956-

Publication

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2002.

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Description

xviii, 305 p., [6] p. of plates : ill., maps; 24 cm.

Summary

Describes how the federal policy of termination irrevocably affected the lives of a group of mixed-blood Ute Indians who made their home on the Uintah-Ouray Reservation in Utah. Following World War II many Native American communities were strongly encouraged to terminate their status as wards of the federal government and develop greater economic and politcial power for themselves. During this era, the rights of many Native communities came under siege, and the tribal status of some was terminated. Most of the terminated communities eventually regained tribal status and federal recognition in subsequent decades. But not all did.

Subject

• Indian termination policy > Utah
• Paiute Indians > Government relations
• Ute Indians > Ethnic identity
• Ute Indians > Government relations
• Ute Indians > Mixed descent

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-294) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The junior senator from Utah -- Ernest L. Wilkinson and eighteen million dollars -- The three-year program and economic blackmail -- Utah Paiutes as Watkins's examples -- Tribal alliances and tribal divisions -- The bureaucratic solution -- John S. Boyden's magnum opus -- Termination and the persistence of identity.

ISBN

0803232012 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2002003126

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library