The Native Marine In America’s Most Famous WWII Photograph – And What Happened After He Came Home
He tried other work.
He moved at various points to Chicago and to other cities, where he thought opportunities might be better.
Chicago, in particular, was a destination for many Native Americans in the post-war years.
The Bureau of Indian Affairs operated a relocation program that encouraged Native people to move from reservations to urban areas, ostensibly to take advantage of better economic opportunities.
The program was part of a broader federal policy in the late 1940s and 1950s called termination — a policy aimed at ending the special legal relationship between the federal government and tribal nations, assimilating Native people into the general American population, and ultimately dissolving the reservation system.
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