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50 years ago, election ushered in new era for US tribes

by Mark Trahant
| May 11, 2021 7:24 AM

Fifty years ago this week the federal government’s experiment with termination was crushed at the ballot box on the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation in Washington state.

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