American Government / Unit 3 Gov 132 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Native American Citizenship
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The idea
Native Americans were not guaranteed United States citizenship until the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924.
In practice
Elk v. Wilkins (1884) had held that birth within the country did not itself confer citizenship on Native people.
Where people slip
Citizenship on paper did not end state-level barriers to Native voting for decades more.
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