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Termination and relocation : federal Indian policy, 1945-1960

Title

Termination and relocation : federal Indian policy, 1945-1960 / Donald L. Fixico.

Author

Fixico, Donald Lee, 1951-

Publication

Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, [1986]
©1986

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Description

xviii, 268 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits; 24 cm

Summary

"Between the end of the Roosevelt era and the beginning of the Kennedy administration, less traditional Native Americans, congressional leaders, and government administrators developed a policy that they hoped would integrate the Indian population with mainstream America. To this end, they enacted laws to terminate the government's trusteeship of Indian lands and relocate Indians to the nation's cities. They believed that once Indians left the reservation, they would have opportunities for education and employment that would enable them to participate more fully in the larger society. These policies were most fully applied to the Menominee and Klamath tribes. But the sponsors of this legislation underestimated the importance of the fundamental differences between Indian and Anglo culture that would make it nearly impossible for most Indians to make the transition. By the early 1960s it had become tragically apparent that the policies of termination and relocation were creating a new subclass of urban poor: Indians who were ill equipped to survive in the competitive, materialistic world off the reservation. In this major study Fixico looks at the history and effects of these policies from the Indian perspective. He also situates termination within the larger issue of civil rights during the Truman and Eisenhower administrations." -- Publisher's website

Subject

Note

Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

Bibliography: p. 245-258.

Contents

Warriors in World War II and new attitudes -- The Indian claims commission and the Zimmerman Plan -- The Truman Fair Deal and the Hoover Task Force Report -- Commissioner Dillon S. Myer and Eisenhowerism -- House Concurrent Resolution 108 and the eighty-third Congress -- Public Law 280 and state interests versus Indian rights -- The relocation program and urbanization -- Commissioner Glenn L. Emmons and economic assistance -- Termination and relocation in retrospect.

ISBN

0826309089
9780826309082
0826311911
9780826311917

LCCN

86016057

OCLC

ocm13823208
13823208
SCSB-1171941

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library