Critical Thinking Questions   Home       If you'd like to print out this page, click the Print button above. Alternatively, you may click the printer icon on your browser's toolbar, or choose File>Print from the menu.     After watching this video segment, how would you describe the atmosphere of this culminating event for a National American Indian Memorial at Fort Wadsworth, on Staten Island in New York City? Do you think that having had the assembled chiefs sign their declaration of allegiance to the U.S. was instrumental in securing citizenship for Native Americans? Why did a U.S. delegation, led by Dr. Joseph Kossuth Dixon and his assistants, travel to Indian reservations throughout the states at this particular time (1913)? In your opinion, how did American political leaders, like President Taft and his administration, view or take into account the Native American population existing in the United States? How do you think the average American citizen (non-Native American) felt about their government's treatment towards Native Americans at this time?