>It was extremely unfair and served no purpose. It definitely served a purpose--to attempt to wipe out tribal identity and force assimilation. That being said

>It was extremely unfair and served no purpose. It definitely served a purpose--to attempt to wipe out tribal identity and force assimilation. That being said, dual citizenship was outright banned during most of the 19th and 20th centuries. To this day naturalized citizens symbolically renounce their former citizenships. "I hereby declare, on oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen"