It included the Confederacy’s separate declaration of war against Germany during World War I and its efforts during the 1920s to reclaim lands in New York State of which it had been dispossessed after the American Revolution. In the United States, in the early 1920s, Rotinonhsionni faced with forced enfranchisement asserted the citizenship of their nations within the Confederacy, widely rejected the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924, and widely refused to participate in off-reservation elec- tions. In 1920 and 1923 Deskaheh traveled to Europe (under a Confederacy-issued passport) to take the concerns and inter- ests of the Rotinonhsionni in Canada before the League of Nations in Geneva and colonial authorities and King George V in London.
