From the 1940’s to 1960’s, U.S. Indian policy was Termination, which strove for Native American tribes to sell their lands to the government, disband, and assimilate into American society, ending their unique identities. Lucy Friedlander Covington, a member of the Colville Tribal Council when Termination was proposed, recognized that it would end the Colville people. Virtually alone at first, she fought Termination council member by council member until the council turned against it. She repeatedly traveled to Washington, D.C., lobbying congressional leaders that the policy was an injustice to Native Americans, and her efforts drew broader and broader support from Native American communities. In 1970, President Richard Nixon ended Termination. Covington fought for Colville rights and in doing so protected the rights and heritage of all Native Americans. She was the great-granddaughter of Chief Moses; her mother, Nellie Moses, was Chief Moses’s granddaughter, and her father, Louis Friedlander, was of Nez Perce, Okanagan, and Jewish ancestry.