On this day, June 2, 1924

[Beth]

nativenewsonline.net/currents/date-history-american-indians-gain-citizenship-june-2-1924/

ASHINGTON – On this date 91 years ago, Congress passed — and President Calvin Coolidge signed — the Indian Citizenship Act, which stated “all noncitizen 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.”



Prior to this act, about two-thirds of American Indians were already citizens by other provisions. Today, there are over two million single-race American Indians possessing this full citizenship, and 566 federally recognized tribes. The Indian and Alaska Native population, including people of more than one race, numbers 5.4 million.





I remember asking my history teacher why neither Native Americans nor women weren't covered in in the 14th and 15th Amendment.  Sometimes even the best teacher doesn't have the ability to answer why.

[deadwoodgultch]

Beth, I read the above when you put it put it up. Interestingly in the same timeframe this was going on.

"The Osage Indian murders were a series of murders of Osage people in Osage County, Oklahoma in the early 1920s; newspapers described the increasing number of unsolved murders as the "Reign of Terror". Estimates are that 60 or more wealthy, full-blood Osage native Americans were killed from 1921 to 1925.[1] The murders appear to have been committed by people intent on taking over the great wealth of the Osage, whose land was producing valuable oil, and who each had headrights that earned lucrative annual royalties. Investigation by law enforcement, including the predecessor to the FBI, also revealed extensive corruption among local officials involved in the Osage guardian program. Most of the murders were never prosecuted, but some men were convicted and sentenced.

Congress changed the law to prohibit non-Osage from inheriting headrights from Osage with half or more Native American ancestry. The US government continued to manage the leases and royalties from oil-producing lands, and the tribe became concerned about these assets. In 2000 the Osage Nation filed a suit against the Department of the Interior, alleging that it had not adequately managed the assets and paid people the royalties they were due. The suit was settled in 2011 for $380 million and commitments to improve program management." This came from WIKI.

There is a new book about this horrible time. "Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI", by David Grann

[quincannon]

If you remember the old Jimmie Stewart movie,"FBI Story" it is in their also.

[deadwoodgultch]

I was too young for that one.

Regards,
Tom

[quincannon]

By that I assume you also missed those legendary classics of American Cinema "Commando Cody and the Radar Men From the Moon", and "Commando Cody Sky Marshall of the Universe" as well?

It is as I suspected. You are a cultural Philistine.

[Beth]

Dec 10, 2017 5:15:06 GMT quincannon said:

By that I assume you also missed those legendary classics of American Cinema "Commando Cody and the Radar Men From the Moon", and "Commando Cody Sky Marshall of the Universe" as well?

It is as I suspected. You are a cultural Philistine.

Many were available on Netflix--just saying.