Title: Are Native Americans Dual Citizens? (with pictures)
Headings: Are Native Americans Dual Citizens? (with pictures)
Are Native Americans Dual Citizens? (with pictures)
Michael Pollick
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Last Modified Date: February 24, 2021
Michael Pollick
Date: February 24, 2021
Native Americans are American citizens, however the U.S. government does not recognize their tribes as having separate sovereignity. This is a difficult issue to address, considering the historic plight of Native Americans and the highly controversial nature of the relationship between the United States government and native tribes. Native Americans were not officially granted US citizenship until 1924, and some states continued not to recognize their legal rights as full citizens until the late 1940s. Native American reservations, such as land in the Navajo tribal reservations, is considered to be held in trust by the U.S. government. The United States government has designated almost 600 locations in the country as sovereign Indian territories, which means that Native American leaders in those areas can establish their own laws, public services, taxes, and other rights left to the other 50 states. What they cannot do is establish their own military or issue their own currency, which puts Indian reservations in the same subservient position as states and overseas territories. In that sense, the people who live there are considered US citizens who happen to live on property that the government technically holds in trust. The U.S. government has designated almost 600 locations in the country as sovereign Indian territories.