as part of the indian termination policy that the us government adopted in the late 1940s and applied into the 1960s, it identified several former new york tribes for termination, with the thought they no longer needed a special relationship with the federal government. a january 21, 1954 memo by the department of the interior advised that a bill for termination was being prepared including "about 3,600 members of the oneida tribe residing in wisconsin. another memo of the department of the interior memo, entitled "indian claims commission awards over $38.5 million to indian tribes in 1964," states that the emigrant indians of new york are "(now known as the oneidas, stockbridge-munsee, and brotherton indians of wisconsin)".