West River Eagle

June 2, 1924: The Indian Citizenship Act is passed by Congress



According to the National Archives website, the “Act was approved on June 2, 1924, this act of Congress granted citizenship to any Native Americans born within the United States. At the time many were still denied voting rights by individual state or local laws.”

We asked people what their thoughts were regarding the Act.

No race has the “authority”, nor can they dictate or confer “human rights” upon another race of legitimacy. It’s a legal man-made fabrication.. and is essentially revealing of a racist Superiority ideology that’s not real.”

-Uma Black

Crow-Wilkinson

“I see that Act only as useful litigation. I’m glad that it was enacted in that it is an another documented legislated evidence we can use to redress all the illegal acts by Congress that furthered genocide.”

-Joe Lafferty

I was aware of the act. It irritates me because the Act essentially treated natives as invaders on their own land and did not see them as people until then. Even then it still ignored the truth of Native lives. So many Natives have worked very hard to defend a country that hates them. Being a trans vet, I get that. I wish the response had been to welcome Natives in from the beginning, especially since so many ideas were taken from the Iroquois Confederation. Things might have played out so differently.”

-Heather O’Malley

“Did you know that Alaska natives were not included in this act until statehood even though they served in both world wars? I personally feel that even today we are still fighting to gain our rights. Look at what happened in the last election in North Dakota they tried everything to try and stop us or reject our votes.”

-Floyd Braun

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