Re: what are thoughts on native self government?
Robert N. Clinton (rclinton@lawnet-po.law.uiowa.edu)
Thu, 9 Apr 1992 08:21:00 CST
Paula Wagoner recently raised the specter of termination and suggested
some comfort that the horror of those times in the 1950s and 1960s were
gone. For those who believe that that termination has disappeared, they
should consult the Hoopa Valley-Yurok Partition Act, where language
providing for a buy out of Indian status of the Yuroks was taken
directly out of the termination statutes of the 1950s. Amazingly,
Indian tribal political being what it is (the Hoopas were politically
very well organized and the Yuroks were not), Indian organizations like
NCAI even supported this bill. One of the recent issues of The Nation
has a brief write up on the tragic effects of the partition legislation.
Termination, unfortunately, has not entirely died, however much we might
desire to bury it!
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