HISTORY 161 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Standing Bear, Tribal Sovereignty In The United States, Indian Citizenship Act
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Asian lecture 3 (1/27/16): native americans and the terms of us citizenship. Tribal sovereignty: from 1778-1871, the territories of the us consisted of 2 sovereign nations, the us (state governance vs. federal governance, the indian nation (after a century of indian removal, the former lands of the. Indian nation became formally a part of the us: native americans were considered citizens of their own tribes. The reservation system: beginning in the 1830s, native americans living in territories now belonging to the. Us were confined to reservations: after 1871, the reservation system formally adopted, terminating sovereignty of the. Although one nation, us split into racially segregated societies. Native americans still citizens of own tried and nit us citizens despite losing sovereignty of lands; lands not people . For some native americans, the separateness was desirable for maintaining tribal jurisdiction- not fully part of the us; being citizens of their own tribes symbolic, not fully absorbed by the us.
