Why did the Indians agree to go to the reservations?

[rupol2000]

When Roosevelt created the Indian reservations, the Indians already had citizenship. Why did they agree to this?

 

[rupol2000]

Indian Citizenship Act - Wikipedia

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[Moonglow]

In 1851, Congress passed the Indian Appropriations Act which created the Indian reservation system and provided funds to move Indian tribes onto farming reservations and hopefully keep them under control.

Indian Reservations - HISTORY​

 

[rupol2000]

In 1851, Congress passed the Indian Appropriations Act which created the Indian reservation system and provided funds to move Indian tribes onto farming reservations and hopefully keep them under control.

Indian Reservations - HISTORY​

Apparently you didn't read the question: When Roosevelt created the Indian reservations, the Indians already had citizenship. Why did they agree to this?

 

[Moonglow]

Apparently you didn't read the question: When Roosevelt created the Indian reservations, the Indians already had citizenship. Why did they agree to this?

Roosevelt did not create reservations they were created by Congress. Roosevelt allowed the Indians to become sovereign nations with their own govt.

 

[rupol2000]

The text of the 1924 Indian Citizenship Act reads as follows:

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all non citizen Indians born within the territorial limits of the United States be, and they are hereby, declared to be citizens of the United States: Provided That the granting of such citizenship shall not in any manner impair or otherwise affect the right of any Indian to tribal or other property.
Approved, June 2, 1924. June 2, 1924. [H. R. 6355.] [Public, No. 175.]
SIXTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. CHS. 233. 1924.
See House Report No. 222, Certificates of Citizenship to Indians, 68th Congress, 1st Session, Feb. 22, 1924.

 

[rupol2000]

Roosevelt did not create reservations

He did

 

[Mikeoxenormous]

When Roosevelt created the Indian reservations, the Indians already had citizenship. Why did they agree to this?

Roosevelt?

American Indian Removal Policy Led to a Shameful Episode in American History

America's removal of Indigenous peoples led to the Trail of Tears, a brutal and shameful episode in American history.

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[rupol2000]

Roosevelt?

American Indian Removal Policy Led to a Shameful Episode in American History

America's removal of Indigenous peoples led to the Trail of Tears, a brutal and shameful episode in American history.

www.thoughtco.com

Indian Reorganization Act - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Circe]

When Roosevelt created the Indian reservations, the Indians already had citizenship. Why did they agree to this?

Something about the cavalry rifles, I think. . . . .

Ahhh, these paid Russian propagandists.

Always just a little off what we're actually concerned about.

 

[rupol2000]

It is very similar to the fact that he settled Eskimos from Alaska in these reservations.

 

[rupol2000]

It made no sense for Indians to go to reservations. No one restricts them in any way by the Indian Citizenship Act

 

[WinterBorn]

He did

No, he did not. By 1924, most Native Americans were either on reservations or were assimilated into our society.

President Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Treaties, and Laws and Regulations Relating to Indian Affairs in 1825. This was the beginning of the Trail of Tears, in which was a forced relocation of five tribes, from their ancestral homelands to lands west of the Mississippi River. More than 10,000 native Americans died on the long walk to the west.

There was also the Indian Removal Act of 1830, which was a systematic removal of Native Americans away from European settlers.


And the reasons the Native Americans went? They had no choice. The US government forced them to relocate. It was either relocate or die.

 

[WinterBorn]

It made no sense for Indians to go to reservations. No one restricts them in any way by the Indian Citizenship Act

Native Americans were put on reservations before Roosevelt was born. And it made no sense, but the Indians had no choice. It was a matter of relocating or they were killed.

 

[JGalt]

When Roosevelt created the Indian reservations, the Indians already had citizenship. Why did they agree to this?

It wasn't Roosevelt who created the reservations, it was Andrew Jackson. The Indian Removal Act was signed by him and allowed the government to divide land west of the Mississippi to give to Indian tribes in exchange for the land they'd lost.

The Indians had no choice in the matter, and it was pretty much done at gunpoint.

 

[rupol2000]

No, he did not.

I think he did, but not exactly what he said. He created reservations anew, settling Eskimos there. And whenever the left was in power, they showed the Na-Dene Eskimos as "Indians".

 

[rupol2000]

Native Americans were put on reservations before Roosevelt

Indian Citizenship Act - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[WinterBorn]

I think he did, but not exactly what he said. He created reservations anew, settling Eskimos there. And whenever the left was in power, they showed the Na-Dene Eskimos as "Indians".

You can think he did all you want. But the Indian Treaties, and Laws and Regulations Relating to Indian Affairs in 1825 and the Indian Removal Act of 1830 were where the reservation system started.

 

[rupol2000]

You can think he did all you want. But the Indian Treaties, and Laws and Regulations Relating to Indian Affairs in 1825 and the Indian Removal Act of 1830 were where the reservation system started.

But this is not relevant. Indians were citizens at that time

 

[WinterBorn]

Indian Citizenship Act - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

That gave the native Americans citizenship. It did not start the reservation system.

Also, it would have been difficult for Roosevelt to have signed the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924, when he did not become president until 1933. Calvin Coolidge signed the act.