Describe the reasoning behind US commissioners’ demands for the confiscation of all tribal lands and rights during the Fort Smith Council of 1865.

Responses may vary but should include some or all of the following information: US commissioners claimed that the Five Tribes violated their treaties with the US. As such, the tribes should be stripped of all their rights, annuities, and lands. Kansas politicians and lobbyists aggressively pursued the agenda of having the Kansas tribes relocate to the Indian Territory. Railroad companies also wanted rights-of-way to build rail lines crossing the Indian Territory.

the main reason that the constitution did not proclaim all men to be free and equal is because of the issue of slavery.