InstitutionClaim Cited
U.S. federal Indian termination policy
The United States used equality and freedom from supervision to justify ending recognition of selected Tribal Nations, withdrawing trust protection and services, transferring jurisdiction, and converting collective assets into taxable or saleable forms; Nations organized against the policy and made restoration and self-determination the replacement doctrine.
How did a policy framed as equal citizenship attempt to dissolve sovereign Nations, and how did those Nations reorganize federal policy around self-determination instead?