Status Updates From The Other Slavery: The Unco...

1880 John elk, (Winnebago)left his reservation to live in Omaha Nebraska & tried to register to vote. the Supreme Court ruled against him in elk V. Wilkins (1884). “Any Indian tribes, or any member thereof, have become so far advanced in civilization that they should be let out of a state of pupilage, & admitted to the privileges and responsibilities of citizenship.

Indian citizenship act of 1924

Only natives who left their communities enjoy the majority society were counted as “taxed.“ Making a distinction between wild and civilized that deprived the vast majority of Native Americans of basic citizenship, rights and protections. According to the census of 1870, only 8% of American Indians were classified as taxed, and even that small majority were eventually stripped of their citizenship rights. P305

The civil rights act of 1866 and the 14th amendment in 1868 also failed to bring relief to Native Americans held in bondage. The statues protected and conferred citizenship, rights on “all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subjects to the jurisdiction thereof,“ but quite crucially excluded “Indians not taxed.”