Question

in your opinion was terminatiom well intentioned for native Americans?

Answer 1

The federal government in the 1940s created polices of Termination and Relocation by a series of laws and policies. The main intent was to terminate the rights of tribal to reservation lands and assimilating the native population into mainstream society of America. The intent that indigenous people must become "civilized" and abandon their traditional lives had been the basis of policy for centuries. They had a belief that granting Native Americans all the privileges and rights of citizenship would decrease their bureaucracy dependence; whose mismanagement had been documented, and reduce the cost of providing services for native people. The perspective of government's that Native Americans become taxpaying citizens, subject to federal and state taxes from which they had earlier been exempted. Although in actual it had devastating effect on tribal community, autonomy, social and economic welfare; however in my opinion the termination policy with well intention toward the native Americans that offered them an escape from poverty-stricken reservations and an opportunity to live the American dream.