History of the United States II / Unit 15 USH2 2106 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The End of Termination
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The idea
Before Wounded Knee, the anchor records, Nixon's administration ended the termination policy and returned millions of acres to the tribes.
In practice
More federal money for Native education, health care, legal services, housing and economic development.
Where people slip
The Bureau of Indian Affairs, occupied in nineteen seventy-two, hired more Native American employees, the anchor adds.
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