Did you know that the director of the WWII Japanese iпterпment саmрs, Dillon S. Myer, also directed the policy of terminating #indigenous sovereignty?

Myer used his experience of running the Japanese prisons to force Natives to assimilate while he was head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. He outlined how to remove federal health, education, and agricultural services off reservations

He even supported the Indian Relocation Act (1956) to incentivize Natives to leave reservations for the cities