Nobody forget the 12 million natives living in the "New World" which died from the "European" diseases after meeting the "civilised" White Man from the "old world"...
How would we rebuild the world after an apocalypse? ( telegraph article)
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Kevin L
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Agree 100%.
The Native Americans weren't even eligible for citizenship until the 1940s. In some states, Native Americans weren't even allowed to vote until 1957.
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Not true. A number of Choctaws in Mississippi became U.S. citizens in 1831.
Kevin L
A True Doomsday Prepper
They must have been an exception.
Long story behind that. There was a good relationship between the Choctaws and the Federal Government for many years. So much so that they opposed Tecumseh and convinced other tribes to not follow him. They were the first tribe to agree to removal and part of the agreement was that any of the Choctaws who wanted to stay in Mississippi would HAVE to become US citizens subject to Mississippi state law instead of tribal law.
It was not supposed to be an exception - it was supposed to be a model for other tribes to follow, but went horribly wrong due to bureaucratic blunders and resulted in the original "Trail of Tears." From that point on, relations between the tribes and the U.S. Government went downhill to the point that many tribes fought for the Confederacy in the Civil War. Had the Confederacy won the war, Oklahoma would have immediately become a state in the CSA completely controlled by Indian tribes. Which is exactly what Thomas Jefferson and the Choctaw Chief Pushmataha had envisioned would happen after removal, BTW. The U.S. used their involvement in the Civil War as an excuse to annul or just disregard treaties which led to further disintegration of the relationship between the tribes and the U.S. Government.
It was not supposed to be an exception - it was supposed to be a model for other tribes to follow, but went horribly wrong due to bureaucratic blunders and resulted in the original "Trail of Tears." From that point on, relations between the tribes and the U.S. Government went downhill to the point that many tribes fought for the Confederacy in the Civil War. Had the Confederacy won the war, Oklahoma would have immediately become a state in the CSA completely controlled by Indian tribes. Which is exactly what Thomas Jefferson and the Choctaw Chief Pushmataha had envisioned would happen after removal, BTW. The U.S. used their involvement in the Civil War as an excuse to annul or just disregard treaties which led to further disintegration of the relationship between the tribes and the U.S. Government.
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