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49 NARF Legal Rev. 1 (2024)

handle is hein.journals/narf49 and id is 1 raw text is: Legal Review NATIVE AMERICAN RIGHTS FUND THE INDIAN CITIZENSHIP ACT AT 100 YEARS OLD PRESIDENT CALVIN COOLIDGE AND FOUR OSAGE INDIANS, WHITE HOUSE, 1925 (HTTPS://WWW.LOC.GOV/PICTURES/ITEM/94508991/) The Promise of Citizenship One hundred years ago, on June 2, 1924, the United States government conferred citizenship on Native American people by passing the Snyder Act, also known as the Indian Citizenship Act. Prior to that time, Native Americans had been explicitly denied citizenship-first in the United States Constitution and, later, through the 14th Amendment. However, while the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924 ensured Indian Citizenship Act Anniversary........ Page 1 Featured Excerpt .................................Page 5 Tribal Water Institute Page 6 Tribal Supreme Court Project ............Page 8 National Indian Law Library...................Page 9 Call to Action.......................................Page 10 NARF.................................... Page 11 NARF Board.............................Page 12 that all Native Americans born within the United States had citizenship, the Act failed to fulfill the promise of citizenship because Native Americans were not also granted voting rights. It would be decades before all 50 states granted Native American citizens the right to vote. And even today, due to the inequities that Native Americans endure when accessing registration, early voting, and Election Day polling places, the promise of full citizenship remains broken. While the 15th Amendment declared that the right to vote could not be denied on account of race, many states were able to find other ways to deny Native American people the vote-residence on a reservation, tribal enrollment status, taxation,