History of Native Americans in the US, and the Constitution

[Penelope]

The Snyder Act of 1924 admitted Native Americans born in the U.S. to full U.S. citizenship. Though the Fifteenth Amendment, passed in 1870, granted all U.S. citizens the right to vote regardless of race, it wasn't until the Snyder Act that Native Americans could enjoy the rights granted by this amendment.

Even with the passing of this citizenship bill, Native Americans were still prevented from participating in elections because the Constitution left it up to the states to decide who has the right to vote. After the passage of the 1924 citizenship bill, it still took over forty years for all fifty states to allow Native Americans to vote. For example, Maine was one of the last states to comply with the Indian Citizenship Act, even though it had granted tax paying Native Americans the right to vote in its original 1819 state constitution. As reported by Henry Mitchell, a resident of that state, Native Americans were prevented from voting in Maine in the late 1930s.

Voting Rights for Native Americans - Elections - Classroom Presentation | Teacher Resources - Library of Congress
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Women didn't obtain the right to vote till 1920 and the poor (whites included) were always suppressed along with the blacks.

Where was the Constitution when this was going on?? They are still suppressing Native American and black voting privileges.

 

[TNHarley]

Suppressing votes? Link

 

[Penelope]

Suppressing votes? Link

Google it, you know its true. Meanwhile talk about the OP.

 

[Mikeoxenormous]

The Snyder Act of 1924 admitted Native Americans born in the U.S. to full U.S. citizenship. Though the Fifteenth Amendment, passed in 1870, granted all U.S. citizens the right to vote regardless of race, it wasn't until the Snyder Act that Native Americans could enjoy the rights granted by this amendment.

Even with the passing of this citizenship bill, Native Americans were still prevented from participating in elections because the Constitution left it up to the states to decide who has the right to vote. After the passage of the 1924 citizenship bill, it still took over forty years for all fifty states to allow Native Americans to vote. For example, Maine was one of the last states to comply with the Indian Citizenship Act, even though it had granted tax paying Native Americans the right to vote in its original 1819 state constitution. As reported by Henry Mitchell, a resident of that state, Native Americans were prevented from voting in Maine in the late 1930s.

Voting Rights for Native Americans - Elections - Classroom Presentation | Teacher Resources - Library of Congress
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Women didn't obtain the right to vote till 1920 and the poor (whites included) were always suppressed along with the blacks.

Where was the Constitution when this was going on?? They are still suppressing Native American and black voting privileges.

All thanks to the Democrats who not only suppressed and terrorized blacks and republicans, but suppressed the American Indian vote also. Thanks for reminding US about how liberal were racists, are racists, and always will be racists and misogynists.

 

[Bruce_T_Laney]

Suppressing votes? Link

Google it, you know its true. Meanwhile talk about the OP.

He is talking about what you wrote in the OP and it is your job to support your comment about how suppression still goes on today.

Now you can provide the links to support your comment or just sit there and tell others to google...

 

[Penelope]

The Snyder Act of 1924 admitted Native Americans born in the U.S. to full U.S. citizenship. Though the Fifteenth Amendment, passed in 1870, granted all U.S. citizens the right to vote regardless of race, it wasn't until the Snyder Act that Native Americans could enjoy the rights granted by this amendment.

Even with the passing of this citizenship bill, Native Americans were still prevented from participating in elections because the Constitution left it up to the states to decide who has the right to vote. After the passage of the 1924 citizenship bill, it still took over forty years for all fifty states to allow Native Americans to vote. For example, Maine was one of the last states to comply with the Indian Citizenship Act, even though it had granted tax paying Native Americans the right to vote in its original 1819 state constitution. As reported by Henry Mitchell, a resident of that state, Native Americans were prevented from voting in Maine in the late 1930s.

Voting Rights for Native Americans - Elections - Classroom Presentation | Teacher Resources - Library of Congress
----------------------------------------------------------

Women didn't obtain the right to vote till 1920 and the poor (whites included) were always suppressed along with the blacks.

Where was the Constitution when this was going on?? They are still suppressing Native American and black voting privileges.

All thanks to the Democrats who not only suppressed and terrorized blacks and republicans, but suppressed the American Indian vote also. Thanks for reminding US about how liberal were racists, are racists, and always will be racists and misogynists.

It was the north verses south, they were known as the dixicrats, learn some history.

 

[tyroneweaver]

The Snyder Act of 1924 admitted Native Americans born in the U.S. to full U.S. citizenship. Though the Fifteenth Amendment, passed in 1870, granted all U.S. citizens the right to vote regardless of race, it wasn't until the Snyder Act that Native Americans could enjoy the rights granted by this amendment.

Even with the passing of this citizenship bill, Native Americans were still prevented from participating in elections because the Constitution left it up to the states to decide who has the right to vote. After the passage of the 1924 citizenship bill, it still took over forty years for all fifty states to allow Native Americans to vote. For example, Maine was one of the last states to comply with the Indian Citizenship Act, even though it had granted tax paying Native Americans the right to vote in its original 1819 state constitution. As reported by Henry Mitchell, a resident of that state, Native Americans were prevented from voting in Maine in the late 1930s.

Voting Rights for Native Americans - Elections - Classroom Presentation | Teacher Resources - Library of Congress
----------------------------------------------------------

Women didn't obtain the right to vote till 1920 and the poor (whites included) were always suppressed along with the blacks.

Where was the Constitution when this was going on?? They are still suppressing Native American and black voting privileges.

Might wanna read the Test Oath of 1885

 

[Penelope]

Suppressing votes? Link

Google it, you know its true. Meanwhile talk about the OP.

He is talking about what you wrote in the OP and it is your job to support your comment about how suppression still goes on today.

Now you can provide the links to support your comment or just sit there and tell others to google...

I did in the OP , and if you are not aware of the voter suppression against blacks and NA I suggest you start reading the news more.

 

[Mikeoxenormous]

The Snyder Act of 1924 admitted Native Americans born in the U.S. to full U.S. citizenship. Though the Fifteenth Amendment, passed in 1870, granted all U.S. citizens the right to vote regardless of race, it wasn't until the Snyder Act that Native Americans could enjoy the rights granted by this amendment.

Even with the passing of this citizenship bill, Native Americans were still prevented from participating in elections because the Constitution left it up to the states to decide who has the right to vote. After the passage of the 1924 citizenship bill, it still took over forty years for all fifty states to allow Native Americans to vote. For example, Maine was one of the last states to comply with the Indian Citizenship Act, even though it had granted tax paying Native Americans the right to vote in its original 1819 state constitution. As reported by Henry Mitchell, a resident of that state, Native Americans were prevented from voting in Maine in the late 1930s.

Voting Rights for Native Americans - Elections - Classroom Presentation | Teacher Resources - Library of Congress
----------------------------------------------------------

Women didn't obtain the right to vote till 1920 and the poor (whites included) were always suppressed along with the blacks.

Where was the Constitution when this was going on?? They are still suppressing Native American and black voting privileges.

All thanks to the Democrats who not only suppressed and terrorized blacks and republicans, but suppressed the American Indian vote also. Thanks for reminding US about how liberal were racists, are racists, and always will be racists and misogynists.

It was the north verses south, they were known as the dixicrats, learn some history.

Still trying to revise history I see. They were Southern White Democrats like George Wallace and Al Gore's pappy.. Oh yeah, Robert Byrd and other liberal elites who thought they were so much better than any blackman or white woman.

 

[Tommy Tainant]

Many Native IDs Won't Be Accepted At North Dakota Polling Places

 

[Olde Europe]

Suppressing votes? Link

Google it, you know its true. Meanwhile talk about the OP.

He is talking about what you wrote in the OP and it is your job to support your comment about how suppression still goes on today.

Now you can provide the links to support your comment or just sit there and tell others to google...

Turns out, willful, invincible ignorance is, in fact, invincible.

There is, in the age of the internet, no longer even the beginnings of an excuse for that.

 

[MarcATL]

Suppressing votes? Link

White privilege allows this radical, far rightwing son-of-a-bitch to feign ignorance and BLEEV he has a legitimate argument.

 

[Olde Europe]

White privilege allows this radical, far rightwing son-of-a-bitch to feign ignorance and BLEEV he has a legitimate argument.

Nope, he knows that's not an argument at all. The over-entitled bitch thinks he doesn't need an argument, and that he'll get away with that kind of intellectual laziness, and, he still believes he should be taken seriously.

How's that for a trifecta? The over-entitled bitch's trifecta, to be precise. Look around, you'll see it all the time.

I know, the term "with almost surgical precision" was coined by a federal judge to describe how Republicans targeted Black people for disenfranchisement. The way Native Americans are being treated is no less vile. Still, the Fourth Estate more or less disappears these people and their fate, buries them in the back pages, as if their treatment weren't a major ill, not just within the racist ranks of the GOP, but one infesting the American democracy itself. This is compounded in a major, major way by the Supreme Court under Roberts (and surely before), who routinely refuses to hear and decide cases from disenfranchisement to gerrymandering, letting that major ill fester.

The Birth Defect is pretty much alive and thriving, even though the trees no longer bear strange fruit.

 

[TNHarley]

Lol wtf

 

[DGS49]

Citizenship of the "native people" has always been a sketchy thing. They have always wanted to be considered independent "nations" when it's convenient to be so, and as citizens when THAT is convenient. the "...and subject to the jurisdiction thereof..." language of the 14th Amendment was at least in part intended not to force U.S. citizenship on Injuns who didn't want it.

They weren't drafted until WWII (although they were required to register for WWI), and many continued to fight the draft, claiming not to be citizens of the U.S. They pay FIT, but not on trust fund money.

I frankly have not heard any complaints by the Native People over the past several decades when they have taken it upon themselves to erect CASINO's in states where gambling is prohibited, because they are independent and NOT A PART OF THE STATE where their territory sits.

"Black Voter Suppression" is a Leftist myth. Black people with even a scintilla of self-respect are greatly insulted by the claims that merely having to prove who you are at the Polls is an effort to exclude Blacks. NO ONE who wants to vote in this country is prevented from doing so, It is the dimwits and wastrels who have never paid a fucking dime in FIT who are the subject of the complaints. Leftists think that if "we" don't pick them up and carry them to the polls and pre-populate their ballots with a Democrat straight ticket vote then their candidates have been cheated out of their earned votes.

 

[OldLady]

Citizenship of the "native people" has always been a sketchy thing. They have always wanted to be considered independent "nations" when it's convenient to be so, and as citizens when THAT is convenient. the "...and subject to the jurisdiction thereof..." language of the 14th Amendment was at least in part intended not to force U.S. citizenship on Injuns who didn't want it.

They weren't drafted until WWII (although they were required to register for WWI), and many continued to fight the draft, claiming not to be citizens of the U.S. They pay FIT, but not on trust fund money.

I frankly have not heard any complaints by the Native People over the past several decades when they have taken it upon themselves to erect CASINO's in states where gambling is prohibited, because they are independent and NOT A PART OF THE STATE where their territory sits.

"Black Voter Suppression" is a Leftist myth. Black people with even a scintilla of self-respect are greatly insulted by the claims that merely having to prove who you are at the Polls is an effort to exclude Blacks. NO ONE who wants to vote in this country is prevented from doing so, It is the dimwits and wastrels who have never paid a fucking dime in FIT who are the subject of the complaints. Leftists think that if "we" don't pick them up and carry them to the polls and pre-populate their ballots with a Democrat straight ticket vote then their candidates have been cheated out of their earned votes.

I don't know anything about black voter suppression, but I agree with what you said about the Native Americans. I have nothing against them, and I have a lot of respect for their culture and traditions, but it IS hard to figure exactly what they want sometimes.
I attended a cultural diversity workshop recently and one of the speakers was a Native American from our local reservation. She tried to explain the hard feelings among the Native community toward whites and our government, citing historic misdeeds that the old timers remembered and had passed down to their kids. She mentioned how NA's had not had the vote here until 1954, as one of those insults. It was impossible to ask questions, given the general feeling in the room, without seeming hostile, but I was really puzzled by the same thing you are--the "Leave Us Alone, We are Our Own Nation" and then crying they weren't considered citizens of the US as well.

She of course skipped over the 81.5 million that Maine paid the tribes in 1980 to extinguish their prior land claims (the tribes didn't argue that they hadn't willingly sold the land to the government, either; they admittedly had).

I'm glad the Passamaquoddy are now fully citizens and that they have a strong and persistent voice in politics here. But they are still a very insular and proud people who basically have a fuck you leave us alone attitude about the government and "whites" generally. Unless they want something.

 

[Leo123]

The Snyder Act of 1924 admitted Native Americans born in the U.S. to full U.S. citizenship. Though the Fifteenth Amendment, passed in 1870, granted all U.S. citizens the right to vote regardless of race, it wasn't until the Snyder Act that Native Americans could enjoy the rights granted by this amendment.

Even with the passing of this citizenship bill, Native Americans were still prevented from participating in elections because the Constitution left it up to the states to decide who has the right to vote. After the passage of the 1924 citizenship bill, it still took over forty years for all fifty states to allow Native Americans to vote. For example, Maine was one of the last states to comply with the Indian Citizenship Act, even though it had granted tax paying Native Americans the right to vote in its original 1819 state constitution. As reported by Henry Mitchell, a resident of that state, Native Americans were prevented from voting in Maine in the late 1930s.

Voting Rights for Native Americans - Elections - Classroom Presentation | Teacher Resources - Library of Congress
----------------------------------------------------------

Women didn't obtain the right to vote till 1920 and the poor (whites included) were always suppressed along with the blacks.

Where was the Constitution when this was going on?? They are still suppressing Native American and black voting privileges.

Where was, and is, the Constitution on killing unborn American citizens? Oh yeah, SCOTUS and now NY have made them not only ineligible to vote but ineligible to be human beings and eligible to be murdered. Why don't you hold a banner for them instead of wasting your time trying to open old wounds? Chill out, go to your local Casino that way you won't be in America, you know, the place you seem to hate.