In California, the passage of the Indian Citizenship Act represented a seismic shift in the state’s relationship with its Native inhabitants. For centuries, Native Californians had endured ...

On June 2nd, 1924 —The Indian Citizenship Act was enacted in the United States. Now, more than 100 years later, Sasheen Goslin, a researcher at the U of M Medical School and graduate from UMD ...

YAKIMA — Sixty years before the Civil Rights Act was signed, another law monumentally expanding rights was enacted. On June 2, 1924, President Calvin Coolidge signed the Indian Citizenship Act ...

The Dawes Act in 1887 did grant citizenship to Native people who accepted individual allotments of land from reservations. The question was finally settled in 1924 with the passage of the Indian ...

In California, the passage of the Indian Citizenship Act represented a seismic shift in the state’s relationship with its Native inhabitants. For centuries, Native Californians had endured systematic ...