This act was in regard to the Native Americans and consisted of 11 sections apporved by Congress in 1887. It gave the president the right to take traditional Indian tribal lands and divide it up into allotments for individual Indians in Oklahoma. Specific guidelines were to be followed. Specifically, an Indian would have to abandon their tribe and their culture and the Secretary of Interior who would be in charge of these lands, would select a plot for them to settle on. The Indians had to abandon their way of life and tradition in order to recieve the land. Also, excess land was bought up and allowed to be purchased by non Indian settlers to move onto in the Oklahoma region, a place originally reserved for the Indians. This was an attempt at total assimilation by the United States.
June 2, 1924, Congress granted citizenship to all Native Americans born in the U.S. Yet even after the Indian Citizenship Act, some Native Americans weren't allowed to vote because the right to vote was governed by state law. Until 1957, some states barred Native Americans from voting. In our history American Indians were discriminated.
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