1924 Synder act plus the 65 voting rights act and numerous court cases gave them the right to vote. I have no problem with native Americans however this sovereign nation stuff is absolutely garbage. Why politicians in this country continue to push division i will never understand.
We won the war, yet give them duel citizenship and payouts for imperpetuti. When is the last time we won a war and did not lose the peace? Maybe the Spanish American war?
After the various wars were won, there was always a formal transfer of the lands from the tribe in question to the American settlers in the area. The transfer was accomplished by a treaty that included a lot of legal language similar to a deed and some financial or in kind goods and a designation of Indian lands.
As time went by, the lands shrank to areas designated as reservations.
Those treaties are still in effect. The reservations and indian nations are still governed by the 19th century treaties.
Former Governor of Montana, Democrat Brian Schweitzer, is on video bragging about how he kept the election from closing until they knew how many Democrat votes they needed from the Reservations to elect Democrat Jon Tester to the US Senate.
He admitted to a room full of lawyers that the Democrats cheated.
The proximity of our local reservation brings car thieves and regular "beer runs" stealing beer from the mini-marts. Stolen cars get the aerosol spray can paint job. Recently, the car thieves have added shooting our our local PD officers. It makes for a fine relationship between our city and the reservation. I'm probably more aware than most in the area because my wife is a police dispatcher.