ABSTRACT
The federal government hoped the allotment policy would encourage individual American Indians to take up farming, but the allotment policy generally discouraged American Indians from farming their own land. The Sioux leaders who advocated partial termination reasoned that by maintaining the trust status of the land, their sovereignty would be maintained, and that by decreasing the role of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, their self-government would be strengthened. The relocation program provided transportation for Indians from reservations to urban areas and assisted Indians in gaining employment and finding housing. Collier held ten regional meetings with the tribes to discuss what came to be known as the Indian Reorganization Act. The Sisseton-Wahpeton Sioux Tribe was unable to fund its rehabilitation efforts until 1964 when Congress funded a full-scale rehabilitation program for all tribes. To varying degrees, the tribes were able to do so with the help of the rehabilitation policy.
