The U.S. was a confederation government with states acting more like countries

The Indigenous people did not have full citizenship

The U.S. had often broken promises with these people

This Act was signed by President Andrew Jackson

This act forced Indigenous People from their homes in Eastern Mississippi

The U.S. Moved them to the West of Mississippi with promised financial assistance and protection

They used manipulation, bribery, and even threats to move them

The Military Forced the rest of the people to move out of their homes.

This act ended in 1839 Because everyone had already moved

The Dawes Act was created by, fittingly, Senator Henry Dawes

The Dawes Act allowed the government to break up reservation land

This also allowed Indigenous people to sell plots of land

This lost the Indigenous people 90 million acres of land

This act was promoted by Homer P. Snyder

The Indian Citizenship Act was an act that allowed all Indigenous people born in the U.S. to be U.S. Citizens automatically

Indigenous people played an important role in World War 1

12,000 Indigenous people fought in the war despite the huge amount of discrimination, but, tens of thousands supported the war at home

There were about 150,000 Indigenous people who supported the war by working in the military, agriculture, and industrial jobs.

A official PDF states, "Indigenous people have the right to recognition and respect for all their ways of life, cosmovisions, spirituality, uses, customs, norms, traditions, ..."

Indigenous people today are free to have the same rights as U.S. Citizens and are free to carry out their customs