After the U.S. government's failure to ratify the Tansy Point treaties signed by chiefs of five Chinookan tribes, the Chinook continued to hold tightly to their identity as a tribe and to their homeland. In 1855 on the Chehalis River, Washington Territorial Governor Isaac Stevens again tried to sign a treaty with the Chinook and other tribes and wanted them to leave their lands, but the Chinook refused. In the years that followed, the Chinook were given many privileges available to treaty tribes, including allotments and hunting and fishing privileges. This changed in 1954 with the passage of the termination acts, through which the U.S. government sought to end all obligations to tribes. The U.S. eventually acknowledged the injustice of termination and restored the sovereignty of most tribes, and the Chinook continue to seek this recognition.