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While this article does a good job of weaving Native Americans into the history of suffrage in the US, something that it excludes is the fact that while citizenship was so vital to getting the right to vote, many Native Americans did not in fact want citizenship, regardless of whether they were actively fighting for suffrage or not. Under the “Voting Rights” section of this article, there should be more information about this. While it says that “In 1924, Native Americans were recognized as United States citizens through the Snyder Act.”, this should be expanded to give information about why Native Americans may have not wanted citizenship. This was due to the fact that they often fought for their sovereignty, but many still wanted the right to vote since they are affected by decisions in US politics. This was not a simple fight for Native Americans, and the right to vote was/is just one layer to the struggles of Native Americans, one that not all Native Americans agreed/agree upon the solution for.
Two good sources to use to expand this section would be Cathleen Cahill’s book, Recasting the Vote: How Women of Color Transformed the Suffrage Movement, and her article in the Journal of Women’s History, “"Our Democracy and the American Indian": Citizenship, Sovereignty, and the Native Vote in the 1920s”.
Cahill, Cathleen D. Recasting the Vote: How Women of Color Transformed the Suffrage Movement. The University of North Carolina Press, 2020.
Cahill, Cathleen D. 2020 ""Our Democracy and the American Indian": Citizenship, Sovereignty, and the Native Vote in the 1920s." Journal of Women's History 32, no. 1: 41-51. doi:10.1353/jowh.2020.0005.
