Visit Project
Project Details
One hundred years ago, the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924 promised American citizenship to Indigenous people across the United States. While this is often described as the origin or major turning point of Indigenous rights within the United States, Native citizenship has a much longer and more complicated history. "Citizenship in Indian Country" maps these stories across the United States to illustrate a fuller picture of how Native people staked claims to citizenship rights to resist dispossession and marginalization.
This map is a syllabus: each map pinpoint includes sources for further reading and research.
Subjects or Themes
Indigenous
Project Language(s)
English
Time Period
Geographic Location
Project Categories
Content Type
Mapping, Teacher Resources
Target Audience(s)
Creators
Stuart Marshall
Year(s)
2023-2024
Host Institution / Affiliation / Project Location
n/a
Software Employed
Labor and Support
This project was developed by Stuart Marshall in his course, HIST139: Citizenship in Indian Country, Fall 2023 semester at Sewanee--The University of the South. The course included readings on Native citizenship in the U.S. and issues of tribal citizenship. Students conducted individual research on regions of the U.S. and peer review of their classmates' work. Students began by identifying Indigenous groups in each state, creating an annotated bibliography of secondary sources, and conducting primary source research for documents and images. The project was developed in the classroom from October to December 2023; it was edited and expanded from January to May 2024.
Project Cost
Partnerships, funding sources, or grant-funding acknowledgement
n/a