News Article, Klamath Indians Draw Spotlight

This newspaper article describes some of the early debates over the termination of southern Oregon’s Klamath Tribes. The complex politicking reported in this piece went on until 1954, when the U.S. Congress passed the Klamath Termination Act.

Termination can be defined as the annulment of treaty agreements between the United States and affected tribes. Based on the dissolution of tribal governments and land holdings, termination represented the culmination of assimilationist policies that had long guided federal relations with Native peoples.