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49 NARF Legal Rev. 1 (2024)

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              Legal Review




              NATIVE AMERICAN RIGHTS FUND




THE INDIAN CITIZENSHIP ACT AT 100 YEARS OLD


PRESIDENT CALVIN COOLIDGE AND FOUR OSAGE INDIANS, WHITE HOUSE, 1925 (HTTPS://WWW.LOC.GOV/PICTURES/ITEM/94508991/)


The Promise  of Citizenship
One hundred years ago, on June 2, 1924, the United
States government conferred citizenship on Native
American people by passing the Snyder Act, also
known  as the Indian Citizenship Act. Prior to that
time, Native Americans had been explicitly denied
citizenship-first in the United States Constitution
and, later, through the 14th Amendment. However,
while the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924 ensured

   Indian Citizenship Act Anniversary........ Page 1
   Featured Excerpt .................................Page  5
   Tribal Water Institute          Page 6
   Tribal Supreme Court Project ............Page 8
   National Indian Law  Library...................Page 9
   Call to  Action.......................................Page  10
   NARF.................................... Page 11
   NARF Board.............................Page 12


that all Native Americans born within the United
States had citizenship, the Act failed to fulfill the
promise of citizenship because Native Americans
were not also granted voting rights. It would be
decades before all 50 states granted Native American
citizens the right to vote. And even today, due to
the inequities that Native Americans endure when
accessing registration, early voting, and Election
Day polling places, the promise of full citizenship
remains broken.

While the 15th Amendment declared that the right
to vote could not be denied on account of race,
many  states were able to find other ways to deny
Native American people the vote-residence on
a reservation, tribal enrollment status, taxation,

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