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An Act To Authorize The Secretary Of The Interior To Issue Certificates Of Citizenship To Indians, United States Congress Jun 1924

An Act To Authorize The Secretary Of The Interior To Issue Certificates Of Citizenship To Indians, United States Congress

US Government Documents related to Indigenous Nations

This public law, also known as the Indian Citizenship Act or the Snyder Act, passed on June 2, 1924, provided United States citizenship to all Indigenous people born in the United States.


Mandan And Hidatsa Music, Smithsonian Institution, Bureau Of American Ethnology, Frances Densmore Jan 1924

Mandan And Hidatsa Music, Smithsonian Institution, Bureau Of American Ethnology, Frances Densmore

US Government Documents related to Indigenous Nations

This ethnographic study, dated January 1, 1924, sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution Bureau of Ethnography presents information about the social and ceremonial significance of music to the Mandan and Hidatsa tribes as collected by anthropologist Frances Densmore from the Fort Berthold Reservation in 1912, 1915, and 1918. This study was conducted at the behest of the State Historical Society of North Dakota. The collection includes a catalogue of songs, a description of customs, legends, folk tales, societies, and photographs of musical instruments, some tribal members, earth lodges and other structures.