For over five years I’ve done extensive research on the records created by the Bureau of Indian Affairs. During the last three years, when I started researching the families affected by tribal disenrollment, the BIA began to act in a spirit of non-cooperation and transparent under my Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”) Requests. In 1995, … Continued
Following the Civil War in 1868, the United States adopted the Fourteenth Amendment as one of the Reconstruction Amendments. It was intended to deal with issues regarding the rights of former slaves. Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States … Continued
( – promoted by navajo) There has been a lot of talk recently by politicians, reporters, pundits, legal scholars, and others about the Fourteenth Amendment and citizenship. There is, as usual, a great lack of awareness of what this amendment has meant to American Indians. Adopted in 1868, the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution states … Continued
Since the very beginning of the United States, the idea of American citizenship for Indians has been a controversial subject. American government is based on Native American models. American democracy was inspired in part by the Indian democracies which the European colonists saw around them. After independence from England, the newly formed United States wrote … Continued
