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The Task Force on Indian Policy calls for the integration of Native people into the larger U.S. population.

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The Hoover Commission's Task Force on Indian Policy states that: "[P]ending achievement of the goal of complete integration, the administration of social programs for the Indians should be progressively transferred to State governments." These social programs include healthcare.

This policy of assimilation leads to the end of the period of tribal termination within U.S. policy and instead to destabilization through assimilation. One element of this new policy focuses on encouraging the relocation of Natives from reservations to cities, which is another strategy of destabilization through the weakening of communal connections.