This year Indigenous People’s Day marks 100 years since Congress enacted the Indian Citizenship Act, granting U.S. citizenship to Native Americans. Americans are usually shocked when they learn that those who preceded Europeans on this continent did not gain citizenship for more than a half century after the Fourteenth Amendment gave that status to “all persons born or naturalized in the United States.” But the reality is Indians have long had ambivalent feelings about U.S.
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