Indian Citizenship Act

Native Indian Citizenship Act

Other short titles	Native Indian Freedom Citizenship Suffrage Act of 1924 and 1925
Long title	An Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to issue certificates of citizenship to Native Indians.
Acronyms (colloquial)	ICA
Nicknames	Snyder Act
Enacted by	the 68th United States Congress
Effective	June 2, 1924
Citations
Public law	Pub. L. 68–175
Statutes at Large	43 Stat. 253
Codification
Titles amended	8 U.S.C.: Aliens and Nationality
U.S.C. sections amended	8 U.S.C. ch. 12, subch. III § 1401b
Legislative history
Introduced in the House as H.R. 6355 by Homer P. Snyder (R-NY) on February 22, 1924 Committee consideration by House Indian Affairs, Senate Indian Affairs Passed the House on March 18, 1924 (Passed) Passed the Senate on May 15, 1924 (Agreed) Agreed to by the House on May 23, 1924 (Agreed) and by the Senate on  Signed into law by President Calvin Coolidge on June 2, 1924

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Indian Citizenship Act

The Indian Citizenship Act of 1924, (43 Stat. 253, enacted June 2, 1924) was an Act of the United States Congress that declared Indigenous persons born within the United States are US citizens. Although the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution provides that any person born in the United States is a citizen, there is an exception for persons not "subject to the jurisdiction" of the federal government. This language was generally taken to mean members of various tribes that were treated as separate sovereignties: they were citizens of their tribal nations.

The act was proposed by U.S. Representative Homer P. Snyder (R-N.Y.), and signed into law by President Calvin Coolidge on June 2, 1924. It was enacted partially in recognition of the thousands of Native Americans who served in the U.S. Armed Forces during World War I.^[1]