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Autodescription — Chief Seattle (Q216477)
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Citizenship? edit
This claims that Chief Seattle was a U.S. citizen, citing the Russian Wikipedia. I don't really read Russian, but I find the claim very improbable. At the time of Seattle's death (1866), almost no Native Americans had U.S. citizenship, especially not unassimilated Natives who retained their tribal affiliations. Article I of the U.S. Constitution indicated that they were not even to be counted in the country's population, and the Fourtheenth Amendment, which laid the ground that eventually changed that dates from 1868, two years after his death. It wasn't until 1924 that the Indian Citizenship Act gave citizenship to Native Americans on a blanket basis.
I hesitate to remove a cited claim based on a citation in a language I don't read, and where I lack a specific citation to the contrary. Can anyone help resolve this? - Jmabel (talk) 21:05, 1 July 2018 (UTC)
- Claim is now deprecated. - Jmabel (talk) 16:45, 2 July 2018 (UTC)