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Native American Citizenship

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Native Americans were not guaranteed United States citizenship until the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924.

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*Elk v. Wilkins* (1884) had held that birth within the country did not itself confer citizenship on Native people.

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Citizenship on paper did not end state-level barriers to Native voting for decades more.

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