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In this Oct. 28, 2020, file photo, Rodney Cawston, chairman of the Colville tribe business council, stands in Oroville, Wash., at the site of the Enloe Dam, which the tribe wants removed because it blocks fish from reaching the Similkameen River. It's been 50 years since the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation voted against termination, effectively ending the federal government's experiment in abrogating treaties, eliminating funding and "freeing the Indians" from the Bureau of Indian Affairs. More than 100 tribes were terminated by the United States — but not one after the 12 bands that make up the reservation in Washington state crushed the idea at the ballot box.

In this Oct. 28, 2020, file photo, Rodney Cawston, chairman of the Colville tribe business council, stands in Oroville, Wash., at the site of the Enloe Dam, which the tribe wants removed because it blocks fish from reaching the Similkameen River. It's been 50 years since the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation voted against termination, effectively ending the federal government's experiment in abrogating treaties, eliminating funding and "freeing the Indians" fro…

May 10, 2021

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