Many nineteenth-century laws offered citizenship to indians if they gave up their tribal identity and assimilated into american society, and most indians were willing to give up their tribal identity for citizenship.

The answer is false, it is because the statement does not provide a factual statement as most Indians are not willing to sacrifice or give up their tribal identity for citizenship because this is important to them and are one of the reasons they exist or makes them as a whole or in a way to shape their identity.