{"id":37207,"date":"2024-06-13T20:14:54","date_gmt":"2024-06-14T01:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unitedresourceconnection.org\/cannon-ball-nd-58528\/sacred-pipe-resource-center-observes-centennial-of-indian-citizenship-act-urges-native-voting\/"},"modified":"2024-06-13T20:14:55","modified_gmt":"2024-06-14T01:14:55","slug":"sacred-pipe-resource-center-observes-centennial-of-indian-citizenship-act-urges-native-voting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitedresourceconnection.org\/cannon-ball-nd-58528\/sacred-pipe-resource-center-observes-centennial-of-indian-citizenship-act-urges-native-voting\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacred Pipe Resource Center observes centennial of Indian Citizenship Act, urges Native voting"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A century later: On June 10, following the \u201cRe-Imagining Citizenship\u201d event in Bismarck, N.D., Cheryl Kary, the executive director at Sacred Pipe Resource Center, displayed a photo of Standing Rock Sioux Reservation\u2019s 1924 observance of the Indian Citizenship Act passage. (Photo credit\/ Adrianna Adame)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

A federal official spoke a hundred years ago at a Standing Rock Sioux Reservation ceremony to announce the passage of a law recognizing Native Americans\u2019 new right to vote. \u201cYou have shot your last arrow. That means that you are no longer to live the life of an Indian. You are from this day forward to live the life of the white man.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Cheryl Kary recalled the ceremony at an event on Monday commemorating 100 years of the Indian Citizenship Act. Around 25 people gathered at Sertoma Park in Bismarck, N.D., for her organization\u2019s \u201cReimagining Citizenship.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kary, executive director of Sacred Pipe Resource Center, gave copies of a document with quotes from the 1924 ceremony held at her tribal nation. It explained that men had to shoot an arrow to symbolize that they would abandon their culture to assimilate. \u201cBut you may keep that arrow; it will be to you a symbol of your noble race and of the pride you feel that you come from the first of all Americans,\u201d according to the historical record.<\/p>\n

Kary said her non-profit set up the event to promote the Native vote and create a safe space where Indigenous people could reflect on history\u2019s impact on present civic engagement. \u201cIt was a pretty traumatic type of ceremony, telling men you shot your last arrow and now you have to take up the plow and women have to take up the purse,\u201d said Kary. \u201cThat type of message about you having to give up your Native identity to be an American citizen was wrong then. It\u2019s even more wrong now.\u201d<\/p>\n

With the Indian Citizenship Act, also known as the Snyder Act, the federal government quit barring the Native vote. However, not until decades later would each state consent to it.<\/p>\n

Sacred Pipe\u2019s event plans were for archery, beadwork and music. Staff wanted attendees to use a bow and arrow to symbolize they hadn\u2019t shot their last arrow. When heavy rain prevented those activities, Kary and United Tribes Technical College President Leander \u201cRuss\u201d McDonald spoke about the history of the Indian Citizenship Act. They shared stories about the importance of perseverance, while staff distributed meals and door prizes.\u00a0<\/p>\n

McDonald spoke to participants about a distinction in recognizing American Indian citizenship.\u00a0 \u201cPeople of European descent did not have to renounce their cultural ways in regard to becoming a citizen for the United States,\u201d McDonald told Buffalo\u2019s Fire.<\/p>\n

McDonald also noted many American Indians served in the military during World War I, despite not being recognized as U.S. citizens. According to the\u00a0National Museum of the American Indian<\/a>, nearly 12,000\u00a0 Native men had registered for military service. \u201cApproximately 10,000 American Indians joined the Red Cross, collecting money and donating supplies to support the war effort.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

He also discussed how America\u2019s dark history of assimilation and cultural genocide against American Indians continued for hundreds of years. \u201cToday if somebody came up to me and said, \u201cYou have to give up all your Indian rights to become a U.S. citizen,\u201d I don\u2019t think a whole lot of us would,\u201d said McDonald. \u201cI think we\u2019re far enough down the road here that we know that we have retained, and we\u2019ve gotten back some of those rights as a tribal people \u2013 and just the basic human rights of being a human being here on this earth.\u201d<\/p>\n

Before closing the event, Kary addressed the importance of the Native vote. \u201cWhat I wanted people to do was think about citizenship and what it means for us as urban tribal people living away from our homelands, what it means to be a citizen of our tribal nations as well as the United States,\u201d said Kary. \u201cAnd just to think about what being a good citizen means.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sacred Pipe is known in the Bismarck-Mandan area for urging individuals to interact with the community. Leading up to North Dakota\u2019s June 11 primary election, the nonprofit encouraged Natives to vote.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe just wanted to emphasize that a little bit more,\u201d said Kary. \u201cShowing up and having a presence at the polls in a primary election is probably the best way that we can demonstrate our citizenship.\u201d<\/p>\n

(Contact Adrianna Adame at adrianna@imfreedomalliance.org<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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A century later: On June 10, following the \u201cRe-Imagining Citizenship\u201d event in Bismarck, N.D., Cheryl Kary, the executive director at Sacred Pipe Resource Center, displayed a photo of Standing Rock Sioux Reservation\u2019s 1924 observance of the Indian Citizenship Act passage. (Photo credit\/ Adrianna Adame) A federal official spoke a hundred <\/p>\n

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