Comment on US citizenship was forced on Native Americans 100 years ago − its promise remains elusive

YourPrivatHater@ani.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• NegativeInf@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Did you not read the article?

  American citizenship was not an aspiration for the first peoples of the United States, whose primary political allegiance was to their own nations.

  Meanwhile, as I’ve covered in my research and teaching on federal Indian law, the Indian Citizenship Act was not a gift or benefit to Native Americans. It was part of a coercive larger effort to assimilate Native Americans into U.S. society.

  From nation to assimilation For centuries after Europeans colonized North America in the 16th century, Native Americans sought to remain separate and distinct from the settlers.

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  • YourPrivatHater@ani.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yes and it doesn’t make sense to me.

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    • MindTraveller@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You should approach the beliefs of foreign cultures which you don’t understand with curiousity and open-mindedness, not debate.

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• grue@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Why would they need to vote for a government that shouldn’t have jurisdiction over them in the first place?

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  • YourPrivatHater@ani.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Thats a very idiotic take.

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