In this era the United States government showed its hypocrisy in full force, though it had been trying to improve the lives of its white (especially male) citizens this could only be done by sacrificing the livelihood of native people. Through work programs that gave land to white citizens it first had to steal this land through the centuries of native genocide and removal. We specifically in class looked at the 1930’s assessment of Dene shepherds and in an effort to curb the environmental degradation taking place it sacrificed hundreds of thousands of these sheep. The government throughout America’s history has repeatedly decided that to improve the lives of its most privileged citizens it must destroy the lifeways of native people and other marginalized groups. This post world war era is merely a shifting of the optics that the government has deployed in order to continue its destruction of native peoples. The shift is not even as great as we might imagine it to be, in the 18th and 19th century native people were explicitly called savages but in the 1950’s relocation policies it is merely implied. It is implicitly stated with these policies, specifically the resolution 108, that native people are not real parts of America until they renounce native identity and assimilate. The document here is attempting to encourage relocation of native people into larger cities where they can be largely disconnected from their heritage and homeland. By encouraging this movement to cities the document tells us that the United States creates the image of the rural reservation born native person to be just as “savage” as the image of previous centuries. The advertisement shown in class shows native people who live in these cities adopting the cultural aesthetics of a white middle class American and renouncing past lifeways. The government did not only sacrifice native people in the name of protection in the 1930’s with the slaughter of sheep though, there is also the clear example we discussed in class of nuclear testing. The government decided that it was worth risking native lives to further the military “protection” provided by nuclear weapons and that Shoshone land could be relegated for use of extensive nuclear weapons testing.