We asked him to give up his religion. He renounced the great spirit and the happy hunting ground and accepted the white mans religion. He surrendered his tribal government to accept the citizenship of his immigrant friends. So through all these many years. through all these many generations. you have called upon this aborigine to make sacrifices. and during that time. to our discredit and shame. no one seems ever to have been sufficiently interested in his real welfare to see that he was given the ordinary rights of citizenship Vhich this same immigrant now enjoys. The purpose of this bill is a simple act of justice to render to the Indian that which has long been due him.
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