Below is a short piece of news about native American Indians having the right to become American citizens, provided that they demonstrated their capabilities...
This in an excerpt from an 1878 edition of the American Missionary which also carried news on native American Indians. As you
can see from the news below, the status of Indians was still an issue in those days. The value of these bits and pieces of information
today is that they show us undigested data about the daily life of people in those days, unlike the history books compiled with the agenda
of their authors. These are still news of the original events, not retrospective views.
The Senate Committee on Indian Affairs has reported a bill for enabling Indians to become citizens of the United States. The conditions of admission to citizenship are that the Indian shall belong to some organized tribe or nation having
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treaty relations with the United States, and that he shall appear in a United States Circuit or District Court and make proof to its satisfaction that he is sufficiently intelligent and prudent to control his own affairs and interests, that he has adopted the habits of civilized life, and has for the last five years been able to support himself and family, and that he shall take an oath to support the Constitution of the United States. The bill also provides that the Indian shall not, by becoming a citizen, forfeit his distributable share of all annuities, tribal funds, lands, or other property.
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