ABSTRACT
After defeating the tribes west of the Mississippi River, the U.S. Congress attempted to totally dismantle tribal governments and end treaty obligations through a program known as Allotment whereby Indians would be allotted a certain plot of land while all excess tribal lands opened to White settlers. This debacle was corrected during the 1930s with the Roosevelt administration only to have another round of Indian cultural genocide perpetrated by the Eisenhower administration. This led to another correction in U.S./Indian Policy in the 1970s known as Indian Self-Determination.
