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  2. Indian Citizenship Act - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. Chauncey Yellow Robe - Wikipedia

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    The Lakota tribe used the occasion to arrange a ceremony to induct Coolidge as a member of their nation, "in recognition of the role he played in passing the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924." [21] Several hundred Lakotas attended the event, led by Chauncey Yellow Robe, his childhood friend Henry Standing Bear, and his daughter Rosebud Yellow ...

  4. Ely S. Parker - Wikipedia

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    He was not permitted to take it because as a Seneca, he was not then considered a United States citizen. [5] All American Indians were not considered citizens until passage of the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924, but by that time, some two-thirds were American citizens due to other circumstances, including having served in the U.S. military. [6]

  5. The Ambivalent History of Indigenous Citizenship - AOL

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    A century ago, when Congress passed the Indian Citizenship Act, key questions about Native sovereignty were left unresolved.

  6. The Indian Citizenship Act is 100 years old. What lessons ...

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    Opinion: Nearly 40 years after being given full citizenship, our people were still fighting for the most basic American right, the right to vote.

  7. United States nationality law - Wikipedia

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    In June 1924, the Indian Citizenship Act granted Native Americans, unilaterally, nationality in the United States. [ 52 ] In 1933, the United States delegation to the Pan-American Union's Montevideo conference, Alexander W. Weddell and Joshua Butler Wright signed the Inter-American Convention on the Nationality of Women, which became effective ...

  8. Homer P. Snyder - Wikipedia

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    Mohawk bicycles were built by Snyder between 1925 and 1972. H.P. Snyder was chairman of the Indian Affairs Committee which sponsored the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924 (aka the Snyder Act). This legislation granted U.S. citizenship to all Native Americans. To recognize the legislation, H.P. ordered the construction of the Mohawk Bicycle.

  9. Baker Roll - Wikipedia

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    Have a direct lineal ancestor who appears on the Baker Roll of 1924. Have a blood quantum of at least 1/16th Eastern Band Cherokee ancestry. Blood quantum is traced from the ancestor listed on the 1924 Baker Roll. A person with a blood quantum of less than 1/16th is an Eastern Band Cherokee descendant, but not a tribal citizen.