The full story is here, but this was one of the most substantial legal civil rights victories in American history, and one of the scant few that ever occurred to obtain legal recourse against US abuses of native people.
Again, I find something reading history on my own that I was never taught in school. (And probably should have been taught.)
If you want to expand beyond the article, there’s an excellent and detailed accounting of Chief Standing Bear’s story in Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. It’s far more horrific than the summary suggests.
This story is also relevant in that a writ of habeus corpus made the victory possible, and we’ve all see what Donald is trying to do to the rule of law, in part by eliminating habeus corpus.
Thanks for sharing this. It was an informative read and quite relevant.
This was an interesting read. I know, though, that at the time there was a lot of interesting debate among indigenous nations about whether US citizenship was a desirable goal. On the one hand, it can confer some real protections and benefits, like Crook being able to bury his son in his homeland (from which he was forcibly removed). But on the other hand, I know that US citizenship was also viewed as an incursion on tribal sovereignty. See the “debate” section of this Wikipedia page for more info from about 50 years after the story of Crook: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Citizenship_Act
Fat load of good it did them
Sadly, you’re not wrong.
