![]() | Bartering with the Bones of Their Dead: The Colville Confederated Tribes and Termination Subjects: Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation Washington -- History; Colville Indians -- Legal status laws etc. -- Washington (State) -- Colville Indian Reservation; Colville Indians -- Government relations; Colville Indians -- Politics and governmen; Bartering with the Bones of their Dead tells the unique story of a tribe whose members waged a painful and sometimes bitter twenty-year struggle among themselves about whether to give up their status as a sovereign nation. Over one hundred federally recognized Indian tribes and bands lost their sovereignty after the Eisenhower Administration enacted a policy known as termination, which was carefully designed to end the federal-Indian relationship and to dissolve Indian identity. Most tribes and bands fought this policy; the Colville Confederated Tribes of north-central Washington State offer a rare example of a tribe who pursued termination. Laurie Arnold is the director of Native American Initiatives at the University of Notre Dame. She is an enrolled member of the Lakes Band of Colville Confederated Tribes. |
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