Speaker 1: But for now it's time to move on to our
Speaker 1: Way Black History Fact. And I'm going to get through
Speaker 1: this pretty quickly because there's another thing I want to
Speaker 1: share for Today's Way Black History Fact. But Today's Way
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Speaker 1: from EJI or the Equal Justice Initiative. Shout out to
Speaker 1: Brian Stevenson. He's one of our heroes. We love this guy,
Speaker 1: and of course the Equal Justice Initiative is his whole thing,
Speaker 1: so check that out on your own. Today we're going
Speaker 1: to discuss the path to citizenship for Indigenous people. And
Speaker 1: we've been champing at the bit because we really want
Speaker 1: to have an episode where we're able to dedicate some
Speaker 1: time and some space to our Indigenous brothers and sisters.
Speaker 1: And we live in a part of the world where
Speaker 1: there's we have access to them, so we're working those angles,
Speaker 1: but for now we're going to share this. The concept
Speaker 1: of United States citizenship was based on the assumption that
Speaker 1: the the US had the right to claim the territory
Speaker 1: that Indigenous people had inhabited for thousands of years, and
Speaker 1: it was disregarded Indigenous understandings of belonging and membership. Sorry,
Speaker 1: it disregarded Indigenous understandings of belonging in membership. Beginning in
Speaker 1: nineteen sorry seventeen ninety, the First Congress granted citizenship rights,
Speaker 1: including the right to vote, whole public office, apply for
Speaker 1: a government job, be tried by a jury, and pursued life,
Speaker 1: liberty and the pursuit of happiness, only to free white people.
Speaker 1: The Fourteenth Amendment, passed in eighteen sixty six, declared that
Speaker 1: all persons born or naturalized in the US are citizens.
Speaker 1: The provision granted citizenship to many newly freed Black Americans,
Speaker 1: but it excluded Indians not taxed, which meant that ninety
Speaker 1: percent of Native Americans were denied citizenship. Despite that, twelve
Speaker 1: thousand Native Americans served as snipers, code talkers check out
Speaker 1: look up the code talkers, You're definitely going to want
Speaker 1: to know about them, and scouts for the US Army
Speaker 1: during World War One. Shortly after the war and did
Speaker 1: Congress pass legislation that granted citizenship to all non citizen
Speaker 1: Indians born within the territorial limits of the United States.
Speaker 1: When the Indian Citizenship Act was signed into law on
Speaker 1: June second, nineteen twenty four, nearly half of all Native
Speaker 1: Americans were not US citizens, but the new law did
Speaker 1: not provide full voting rights to Indigenous people, who were
Speaker 1: barred from voting in Arizona, New Mexico, and New Mexico
Speaker 1: by state laws that remained in effect until nineteen forty eight.
Speaker 1: States continued to use tactics like poll taxes to prevent
Speaker 1: voting by both Native Americans and Black Americans until the
Speaker 1: passage of the Voting Rights Act nineteen sixty five. So
Speaker 1: watch this. I want you to jump in west this.
Speaker 1: This is actually their country. We currently are broadcasting from
Speaker 1: unseated ancestral lands of the Akima Odam peoples. Still took
Speaker 1: until sixty five for them both.
Speaker 2: I have never been comfortable with saying Native American, yeah,
Speaker 2: because that would not be what they are trying to
Speaker 2: people as native of a place they already occupied that
Speaker 2: you stole.
Speaker 1: They didn't name it that, and then named it what
Speaker 1: you wanted to home Indian.
Speaker 2: And because some people say Native American as opposed to
Speaker 2: Indian as a more respectful way to say it, both
Speaker 2: are to them have.
Speaker 1: To be just as disrespecial.
Speaker 2: Sure, come into my home, rename my home, and tell
Speaker 2: me where I can sit, sleep at the table.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's funny. It's a really really crazy true. But
Speaker 1: we definitely want to have more conversations like this and
Speaker 1: we're working on developing those relationships to the degree that
Speaker 1: we can have. Like some people aren't really comfortable in
Speaker 1: the radio broadcast space, but anyway, it's coming. And also
Speaker 1: before we go, I want to make sure that we
Speaker 1: take a moment to let everyone know that this is
Speaker 1: the thirty five year anniversary of the Central Park five,
Speaker 1: now known as the Exonerated Five. You can watch their
Speaker 1: movie on Netflix when they see us one time for
Speaker 1: repudiation