How Native Americans became U.S. citizens

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By Made by History / Produced by Olivia B. Waxman The year 2024 marks the 100th anniversary of the Indian Citizenship Act, which granted U.S. citizenship to Native Americans. As surprising as it is that it took until 1924 for people whose presence preceded Europeans to gain citizenship, as Daniel Mandell explained in Made by History on Indigenous Peoples’ Day this week, many Indians had ambivalent feelings about U.S. citizenship: It could be viewed as an instrument of inclusion, or as a threat against Native American sovereignty. Debate continued until the passage of the 1924 Act, by which point some two-thirds of Native people were already U.S. citizens. Today Indigenous Americans hold trilevel citizenship: that of their tribe, the state in which they reside, and the United States—and continue to defend their sovereignty.

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