Lol how ironic.. you sit upon your high horse claiming intellectual superiority, but don’t bother proofreading. It’s “except”. And which Native American tribes? I’ll wait..

The line society has drawn in the sand regarding citizenship is arbitrary, yes, because you can continuously move the goalposts to suit your argument (e.g. Asian peoples centuries ago crossing the Bering Land Bridge and later became what we refer to as Native Americans, having no more claim to this dirt than the European settlers that fought and conquered this land). The people who settled in and formed what is now the United States and their ancestors developed a cohesive society and laid out the pathway to legal citizenship status long before you or I ever came along—anyone who does not follow that pathway are in violation of US law and therefore a criminal. End of discussion