Indian Citizen Act 1924

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They made us all so call Indians citizens, but the provisions took it away, so we
were never citizens and are not today..

The Indian Citizenship


Act
of 1924

Passed by
Congress
June 2, 1924

Indian Citizenship Act of 1924 2

Transcript 3
Courtesy National Archives and Records Administration
Indian Citizenship Act of 1924 2
Courtesy National Archives and Records Administration
Indian Citizenship Act of 1924 3
Transcript

Indian Citizenship Act of 1924


(Passed by Congress May 27, 1924. Ratified June 2, 1924.)

Sixty-eighth Congress of the United States of America;


At the First Session,
Begun and held at the City of Washington on Monday, the third day of
December, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-three.
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AN ACT
To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to issue certificates of
citizenship to Indians.
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the


United States of America in Congress assembled, That all non-
citizen Indians born within the territorial limits of the United States
be, and they are hereby, declared to be citizens of the United
States: Provided, That the granting of such citizenship shall not in
any manner impair or otherwise affect the right of any Indian to
tribal or other property.

F. H. Gillette
Speaker of the House of Representatives.

A. B. Cummins
Acting President pro tempore of the Senate.

Approved June 2, 1924.


(Signature unreadable)

Courtesy National Archives and Records Administration

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