The religious practices of the Native American population in the United States were no longer of concern to the government. Repression, segregation, and aggression were also no longer a policy the American government wished to pursue, but assimilation still remained a concern. Unfortunately, assimilation came in the form of once again taking land away from Native Americans (termination) because the reservations were seen as on par with World War II concentration camps. Rosier states in his newspaper article, “They Are Ancestral Homelands”: Race, Place, and Politics in Cold War Native America, 1945-1961, that the Zuni veterans of “We served [overseas] to save our country, our people, our religion, our free press, and our free speech from destruction… We, now in the land of the free as Americans, are faced with [termination policies] that will mean the total destruction of all tribe.” The policy of termination clashed with the desire of Native American peoples to preserve their native identity, and with their identity came their religious practices. Between 1953 and 1964, more than 100 tribes and 13,263 natives were exterminated. Americans lost tribal affiliation; this was a loss that could not be recovered. Scholars have determined that severance policies had disastrous effects on tribal autonomy and