this post was submitted on 12 Aug 2024
96 points (96.2% liked)

Anthropology

640 readers
3 users here now

Welcome to c/Anthropology @ Mander.xyz!

Notice Board

This is a work in progress, please don't mind the mess.

About

Rules

  1. Don't throw mud. Be kind and remember the human.
  2. Keep it rooted (on topic).
  3. No spam.

Resources

Similar Communities

Sister Communities

Science and Research

Biology and Life Sciences

Plants & Gardening

Physical Sciences

Humanities and Social Sciences

Memes

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
[email protected]
96
US citizenship was forced on Native Americans 100 years ago − its promise remains elusive (theconversation.com)
submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
8 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

I can just imagine what the news articles would be if natives were not given citizenship and voting rights and limited to independent tribal areas. This is funny because someone just said something about this with palestinians in the reverse but of course if it happened then israel would have to formally become one state the way the US is one state.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yes and it doesn't make sense to me.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

They are not mutually exclusive, and respectful debate benefits everyone. The debate being whether federal U.S. citizenship for natives is a net positive or negative.

In the current political scenario, I don’t see anyone arguing it’s a net negative.