Even after the tremendously difficult time that was World War II, Native Americans still had to endure even more prejudice and attack even after returning home. Even after many native peoples and communities sacrificed and defended the United States, the U.S. government continued to want more and more from native lands, which meant they had to reduce the number of individuals on reservations. Now native Americans didn’t have to physically fight with the American government, but instead had to battle with words, legislations, and policies. This movement from the American government has been dubbed the “Termination Era”, which is a perfect way to describe what the American government’s ideas and goals were. Their goal also within this period was not to just remove native Americans off of their land but it also meant that they were trying to terminate the memory and the awareness of anything native. They were basically trying to just kill the idea of native Americans within America. The first thing we learned about within class was the United States government’s aim to Americanize and urbanize many native communities by trying to incorporate them more and more in cities and try to influence them to remove themselves from reservations, which would be beneficial for acquiring the land. Then as discussed in class through lecture we learned that native communities joined together with the intention to fight back against “Termination” so they created the “The Indian Claims Commission Act” which was signed by President Truman it was reliving to learn that Truman decided to sign, however, I do question if Truman’s intentions of signing the treaty were coming from a true want for change or from a more politically driven publicity stunt. Nonetheless, the act was signed which gave a bit more power to native communities and gave them a voice and an outlet to voice their opinions on treaties and legislation that was wronging them. Even with this act, the United States being the government they still created a loophole that made it so that the government couldn’t be sued, which rendered the new “Indian Claims Act” almost powerless. However, as we learned later in the week in the late 60s groups like DRUMS ( Determination of Rights and Unity for Menominee Stockholders) and AIM (American Indian Movement) were created to continue the battle against the United States, which gave way for many more native communities and individuals to keep fighting the good fight.