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In America, she became the great \u003ci\u003ecause célèbre\u003c\/i\u003e of the Revolution, the sympathetic female victim of the war symbolizing the righteousness of The Cause. In Britain, she was a human-rights tragedy that tarnished the polished surface of British honor and galvanized Whig politicians who shouted out her name in Parliament as an example of how low the nation had fallen. For Native peoples, recruited by both the British and the Americans, and caught in the middle of a war staged on ancestral grounds, McCrea's killing was the opening salvo in a vicious chain of bloody retribution that led to the disintegration of the venerable Iroquois Confederacy and the obliteration of Native homelands. After the war, the nightmarish image of a young Jane McCrea slaughtered on the New York frontier would obsess white Americans who came to fear Native peoples as irredeemable savages. 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After the American Revolution, they had to decide whether gaining United States citizenship would help to preserve their rights and property or be used to take them away--and they found out that either decision could end in loss.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo understand the profound consequences of their choices, historian Paul C. Rosier creates a sweeping portrait of the broad history of Indigenous Americans. \u003cem\u003eIndigenous Citizens\u003c\/em\u003e is unique in its breadth, its focus on the evolution of Native Americans' dual citizenship, and its coverage of Indigenous issues from the founding of the United States through the twenty-first century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis masterful work highlights Native people's efforts to preserve their tribal sovereignty and to secure the civil rights afforded to other Americans. 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