An excerpt from a Department of the Interior report that explains Indian citizenship, 1952.

American Indian people were made citizens of the United States in 1924 by an act of the federal government. Here, the Bureau of Indian Affairs in the Aberdeen/Billings region of Montana explains, from its perspective, why American Indian people gained citizenship.

Citation Information
Bureau of Indian Affairs - Aberdeen Area Office, excerpt from “The American Indian: a history of the Administration of Indian Affairs,” Digital Public Library of America, https://dp.la/item/674766da7e79abc0e95e464d523f4cf7.
Note: These citations are programmatically generated and may be incomplete.
Courtesy of University of Montana-Missoula, Mansfield Library via Big Sky Country Digital Network.

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