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The Indian Citizenship Act of 1924, (43 Stat. 253, enacted June 2, 1924) was an Act of the United States Congress that declared Indigenous persons born within the United States are US citizens. Although the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution provides that any person born in the United States is a citizen, there is an exception for ...
When it was finally enacted in 1924, the Indian Citizenship Act was hardly a revolution: about two-thirds of Natives were already citizens due to narrower federal or state laws. The Act explicitly ...
Opinion: Nearly 40 years after being given full citizenship, our people were still fighting for the most basic American right, the right to vote.
This finally was stated with the Indian Citizenship Act which was created on June 2, 1924. This act showed progress in that Natives would not have to give up being a Native to be a citizen of the United States. This included being an enrolled member of a tribe, living on a federally recognized reservation, or practicing his or her culture. [67]
A parallel act, the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924 (Pub. L. 68–175, H.R. 6355, 43 Stat. 253, enacted June 2, 1924), granted all non-citizen resident Indians citizenship. [21] [22] Thus the Revenue Act declared that there were no longer any "Indians, not taxed" to be not counted for purposes of United States congressional apportionment.
Tribal constitutions outline criteria for citizenship which can include minimum blood quantum requirements, residency, lineal descendant, or other criteria. [11] Many tribes who formed governments under the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 have minimum blood quantum requirements. [ 11 ]
Burke Act; Indian Citizenship Act of 1924; Civilization Fund Act; Curtis Act of 1898; Dawes Act; Indian Gaming Regulatory Act; Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act; Hawaiian Homelands; House concurrent resolution 108; Indian Arts and Crafts Act of 1990; Indian Child Welfare Act; Indian Claims Limitations Act; Indian Land ...
The Fourteenth Amendment, based on the Civil Rights Act of 1866, was ratified in 1868 to provide citizenship for former slaves. The 1866 Act read, "That all persons born in the United States and not subject to any foreign power, excluding Indians not taxed, are hereby declared to be citizens of the United States; and such citizens, of every ...