Indigenous citizens : Native Americans' fight for sovereignty, 1776-2025 / Paul C. Rosier.

Rosier, Paul C., author.

Book

First edition

New York, New York : W.W. Norton and Company, 2026.

©2026

x, 348 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

970.004 Rosier

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"A sweeping history of Native Americans' fraught relationship with United States citizenship and their efforts to protect tribal sovereignty."

"Indigenous Citizens chronicles Native Americans? extraordinary resilience and resistance to colonialism, coercive assimilation programs such as Indian Boarding Schools, and white Americans? backlash against their treaty rights, from the American Revolution to the 2024 election. It highlights their efforts to both preserve tribal sovereignty and secure the civil rights accorded to other Americans, a dual citizenship codified in the 1924 Indian Citizenship Act. Covering the arc of American history, Paul C. Rosier reveals Indigenous Americans? vision of a country that lives up to the ideals expressed in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. Through patriotic military service, activism, and political writings Native Americans championed their belief in a multicultural America that honored its legal obligations as it assumed international prominence in the twentieth century. Indigenous Citizens is unique in its breadth, its focus on the evolution of Native peoples? dual allegiances, and its coverage of twenty?first?century Indigenous issues."

Indians of North America -- Legal status, laws, etc.

Indigenous peoples -- North America -- Legal status, laws, etc.

Indians of North America -- Government relations.

Indigenous peoples -- North America -- Government relations.

Indians of North America -- Civil rights.

Indigenous peoples -- North America -- Civil rights.

Sovereignty.

Native Americans' fight for sovereignty, 1776-2025

Introduction -- Part One. Contesting assimilation, 1776-1924 -- "It was enough that they were Indians": racial conflict in the early republic, 1776-1829 -- "We cannot consent to be under your government": ethnic cleansing during the "Removal Period," 1830-1838 -- "The citizenship plan": Native people's fight for autonomy, 1838-1887 -- "Into the swim of American citizenship": forced allotment in Indian Country, 1887-1917 -- "The club of white man's wisdom": forced assimilation in Indian Boarding Schools, 1887-1917 -- "For the honor of the race and the good of the country": creating a dual citizenship, 1911-1928 -- Part Two. Demanding their rights, 1924-2025 -- "Citizen Indians, get busy": the fight for citizenship and sovereignty, 1924-1945 -- "No Indians and dogs allowed": Indigenous citizens' fight for civil rights, 1945-1951 -- "The great contradiction of dual citizenship": the resistance against termination, 1945-1961 -- "It is up to you to use your rights": Indigenous citizens' fight for Treaty Rights, 1961-1974 -- "Those dumb Indians ought to be shot": white backlash to Indigenous Sovereignty, 1974-2000 -- "Dual citizens of this country": Indigenous politics in the twenty-first century

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