When did america recognize Native Americans as US citizens, where they apart of the US or America?

Question

Im debating this argument on Manifest Destiny that the native americans should not be stripped of their land i need informaiton on them and any reason why manifest destiny is bad!

Answer 1

Native Americans became legal citizens of the U.S. in 1924 under the American government. Of course they have always been legal citizens...

Why Manifest Destiny is Bad:
- Manifest Destiny suggests that colonizers had the right to move west, to steal this land, that they were superior to Native people. It suggest that the rest of the things I list here are reasonable and justified.
Results of Manifest Destiny:
- Genocide
- Cultural Genocide (loss of ceremony, language, sacred sites etc...)
- Torture and Brutality against Native people including paying for scalps (more for men, less for women, and still some for children).
- Rape of Native women
- Introduction of greed, capitalism, guns, alcohol, smallpox
- Kidnapping. Native American boarding schools existed into the mid 1900s. They stole Native children and forced them to attend White Christian boarding schools. In these boarding schools Native children were beat for exhibiting any part of their culture. Much worse things happened as well.
- Being removed from cultural lands (see Trail of Tears)
- Being removed from subsistence diets. Natives were forced to live off of commodity food. Natives now have the highest statistical rates of diabetes because of this.
- Highest rates of poverty. This is because Natives are forced to live on the poorest land in the U.S. and are not given access to many resources.
- Disregarding Treaty Rights
- Forced assimilation
- Dump toxins on Native lands such as nuclear waste
- There is SO MUCH MORE! Don't forget continued oppression today and invisibilty of the Native people in the eyes of the majority culture.

Hope this helps!!!

Here are some websites:
http://www.apfn.org/thewinds/1998/03/weapons_of_destruction2.html
http://gbgm-umc.org/umw/joshua/nativeam.html
http://www.thefurtrapper.com/oregon_trail.htm
http://www.legislature.state.al.us/misc/guide/student_teacher/reference/ref_amhist/exp_manifest_destiny.html
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3805/is_200401/ai_n9379579
http://change.org/changes/list_videos/13?video_id=175&main_page=1

Answer 2

It was after Manifest Destiny that the Native Americans were officially declared as US citizens. In an insult of magnified proportions the Native Americans were officially declared citizens in 1924 by the Coolidge administration. The reason why I say it is an insult is that if anyone could claim status as Americans it would be the Native americans in this country for they were here long before the first Europeans stepped onto the continent.

Answer 3

In the first place they are the true citizens of the USA. We Americans try to hide this fact by stating that they were too weak to be a powerful nation on their own. But how could they be powerful if we destroyed them through genocide whereas we live behind masks in society and government.