Reservations are plantations for Indians. That is how the federal government maintains control over their tribal affairs. Next thing you know, the Feds will be deciding which black people are Choctaws, Chickasaws, Creeks, and Seminoles.

"Besides pressure from the BIA to accept the 1866 Treaty as the law of the land, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development is withholding a $33 million disbursement to the tribe over the Freedmen controversy."