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Violence against Indigenous women is pervasive, and a shocking number of murders and missing person cases go unsolved. Tribal advocates in California are pushing for more accountability.
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The Indian Termination Act of 1953 and the Indian Relocation Act of 1956 were conservative reactions to the liberal reforms of Franklin Roosevelt’s Indian New Deal of the 1930s. The laws of the 1950s were designed to break up the Reservations and relocate Native peoples into urban areas. In addition, they gave Congress plenary power, or absolute authority to force compliance on Native peoples without negotiation.
At the top of the list for termination was the Menominee Tribe of Wisconsin, largely because of its wealth in forest land. In 1954, Congress passed an act officially terminating the Menominee as a federally recognized tribe. Termination was initially set for 1958 but extensions pushed it forward to 1961. Once it happened, Termination was an unmitigated disaster and only increased poverty and hardship among the Menominee.