After WW2, the government intervened in native american lives such as taking away their lands, and ending their tribal sovereignty. Termination was driven by racism in hopes of making native americans adapt to white american norms because the europeans viewed them as not modernized. All of this contributed native Americans losing their identity and their legacy. Once the native american communities lost their land they were forced to move to cities where they eventually faced racism, high rates of poverty and unemployment.
As native American lands were sold, pollution and environmental degradation increased since the lands were given to Europeans who used the land to build railroad systems which affected the wildlife around it and trees were cut to make way for the train. They also built cities and towns which contributed to loss of wildlife and pollution. Selling native American land to non native americans resulted in hurting the ecosystem since most of nature was replaced by man made objects.
The termination had a big impact on native american women because since the government refused to help women, they had a harder time taking care of their families because the resources were not available. When native americans were forced into an urban setting, women faced many gender discrimination when it came to getting hired for jobs and when they were hired, they were given jobs where they would get paid unfairly that lacked training, security and resources. Not only did they have to deal with the lack of pay but they also had a hard time taking care of their families and the government did nothing to help them since there were no resources to help them out
To this day, Native Americans still struggle with their identity, culture and racism. Due to colonization, Native Americans have lost their identity and their culture isn’t passed down from generation to generation. Native Americans also have to still deal with generation trauma about losing their culture, all the pain/trauma socio economic hardships and displacement their ancestors went through and many native americans communities are still working to get through the trauma.