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misconception
the Act was a reward for Native American service in WW1, when it was actually part of the government’s assimilation policy
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why NA resistant to it
wished to maintain their traditional rights and resist assimilation saw US citizenship as undesirable and a threat to their sovereignty
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2/3 NA already had the right to vote
due to inter-marriage and the allotment system created by the Dawes Act of 1887
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it could encouraged integration
intended to promote assimilation by transforming Native Americans into individual US citizens participating in American political life
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what did NA want
restoration of their sovereignty and nationhood rather than participation in the US political system
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