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 ...

Today, 100 years after the passage of the Indian Citizenship Act, Native people still are forced to litigate for their right to vote. Tragically, states continue passing legislation that prevents ...

That really kind of woke everybody up and eventually led to the passage of the Indian Citizenship Act in 1924. Governing: What were some of the positive effects of that law? Echohawk: That ...

Even after the passage of the Indian Citizenship Act, those exercising their new rights were met with more barriers. While they now legally had the right to vote as citizens, voter suppression ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...