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4 days ago · 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 14 th Amendment ...
6 days ago · She became one of the first two Native American women in Congress in 2018 before taking the reins of the Interior Department to oversee U.S. obligations to 574 federally recognized tribes.
5 days ago · This should help at Acoma, where Pasqual said some residents still do not have standard addresses. Native Americans in New Mexico – home to 22 federally recognized tribal communities and holdings of an Oklahoma-based tribe – were among the last to gain access to voting, decades after the U.S. extended birthright citizenship to the land’s original inhabitants on June 2, 1924 through the ...
5 days ago · At Laguna Pueblo in New Mexico, voting has provided Native Americans with a path to power amid the political rise of pueblo member Deb Haaland.She became one of the first two Native American women in Congress in 2018 before taking the reins of the Interior Department to oversee U.S. obligations to 574 federally recognized tribes.
3 days ago · Wilma Mankiller. Wilma Pearl Mankiller ( Cherokee: ᎠᏥᎳᏍᎩ ᎠᏍᎦᏯᏗᎯ, romanized: Atsilasgi Asgayadihi; November 18, 1945 – April 6, 2010) was a Native American activist, social worker, community developer and the first woman elected to serve as Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation. Born in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, she lived on ...
2 days ago · Oxford, Bacon, Derby, and Marlowe (clockwise from top left, Shakespeare centre) have each been proposed as the true author. The Shakespeare authorship question is the argument that someone other than William Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon wrote the works attributed to him. Anti-Stratfordians—a collective term for adherents of the various ...
3 days ago · Native Americans have a long and distinguished record of service in the US military, and 175 of them took part in the D-Day invasion. Shay will take part in the 80th Anniversary ceremonies. He has been living in France since 2018, not far from the D-Day beaches, so he won’t have to cross an ocean to participate in the ceremonies.
