Yet even after the Indian Citizenship Act was passed, 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.
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/jazz/jb_jazz_citizens_1.html
President Calvin Coolidge with four Osage Indians after Coolidge signed the bill
granting Indians full citizenship.
https://indiancountrymedianetwork.com/history/events/native-history-citizenship-thrust-upon-natives-by-us-congress/
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