{"id":12658,"date":"2011-03-15T03:41:15","date_gmt":"2011-03-15T03:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=12658"},"modified":"2011-03-15T04:43:23","modified_gmt":"2011-03-15T04:43:23","slug":"terminations-legacy-the-discarded-indians-of-utah-by-r-warren-metcalf-lincoln-university-of-nebraska-press-2002-xx-305-pp-isbn-0-8032-3201-2-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=12658","title":{"rendered":"Termination&#8217;s Legacy: The Discarded Indians of Utah. By R. Warren Metcalf. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002. xx, 305 pp., ISBN 0-8032-3201-2.)  [Review]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.2307\/3661030\" target=\"_blank\">Termination&#8217;s Legacy: The Discarded Indians of Utah. By R. Warren Metcalf. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002. xx, 305 pp., ISBN 0-8032-3201-2.)\u00a0 [Review]<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jah.oxfordjournals.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Journal of American History<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/jah.oxfordjournals.org\/content\/90\/3.toc\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 90, Number 3<\/a> (December 2003)<br \/>\npage 1107<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.2307\/3661030\" target=\"_blank\">10.2307\/3661030<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usu.edu\/history\/faculty\/lewis\/indexlewis.htm\" target=\"_blank\">David Rich Lewis<\/a><\/strong>, Professor of History<br \/>\n<em>Utah State University, Logan<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=12656\" target=\"_blank\">Termination&#8217;s Legacy: The Discarded Indians of Utah<\/a>.<\/em> By R. Warren Metcalf. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002. xx, 305 pp., ISBN 0-8032-3201-2.)<\/p>\n<p>In the 1950s the federal government reversed its pluralistic policies for revitalizing tribal governments and began terminating its trust responsibility under the guise of \u201cfreeing\u201d American Indians from federal control. Termination policies flowed out of the conservative, budget-cutting, consensus rhetoric of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cold_War\" target=\"_blank\">Cold War<\/a> America. As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ou.edu\/cas\/history\/fac-staff-metcalf.html\" target=\"_blank\">R. Warren Metcalf<\/a> points out, its implementation varied, informed by the ideology of its practitioners and the circumstances of its subjects\u2014specifically the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-day_Saints\" target=\"_blank\">Mormon<\/a> cultural background of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Arthur_Vivian_Watkins\" target=\"_blank\">Arthur V. Watkins<\/a>, Republican senator from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Utah\" target=\"_blank\">Utah<\/a> and chief advocate of termination in Congress, and the numerically small, powerless, and divided <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shoshone_people\" target=\"_blank\">Shoshone<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paiute_people\" target=\"_blank\">Paiute<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ute_people\" target=\"_blank\">Ute Indians<\/a> of Utah. Metcalf details the process whereby federal officials, Mormon politicians and lawyers, and Utes themselves accomplished the termination of mixed-blood members of the Northern Ute tribe despite the letter of the law and the bonds of racial identity. It is the story of identity politics that left individuals as \u201cdiscarded\u201d Indians&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire review <a href=\"http:\/\/jah.oxfordjournals.org\/content\/90\/3\/1107.1.full\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Termination&#8217;s Legacy: The Discarded Indians of Utah. By R. Warren Metcalf. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002. xx, 305 pp., ISBN 0-8032-3201-2.)\u00a0 [Review] The Journal of American History Volume 90, Number 3 (December 2003) page 1107 DOI: 10.2307\/3661030 David Rich Lewis, Professor of History Utah State University, Logan Termination&#8217;s Legacy: The Discarded Indians of Utah. 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