Miscellaneous
Summary: Fifty years ago last week the federal government’s experiment with a policy called “termination” was crushed at the ballot box on the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation in Washington state. Termination was a policy that was designed to end the United States government’s role in Indian affairs. The vote on May 8 was not close.No other tribe anywhere in the United States had to deal with the termination policy again.