# Indian Citizenship Act Passes, 1924 Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/wort-89-9fm-madison-6475612/indian-citizenship-act-passes-1924 Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/wort-89-9fm-madison-6475612/indian-citizenship-act-passes-1924.md Podcast: [WORT 89.9FM Madison](https://stenobird.com/podcast/wort-89-9fm-madison-6475612) Published: 2026-06-01T18:16:41+00:00 Episode link: https://soundcloud.com/wort-fm/indian-citizenship-act-passes Audio file: https://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/2331531506-wort-fm-indian-citizenship-act-passes.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/wort-89-9fm-madison-6475612/episodes/indian-citizenship-act-passes-1924 Duration seconds: 309 ## Resource June 2nd is the 102nd anniversary of the passage of the Indian Citizenship Act, which declared that all Native Americans in the United States to be citizens, completing a decades-long process of piecemeal granting of citizenship to Native Americans, though it did not immediately grant the right to vote and was opposed by some native groups at the time due to concerns about sovereignty and treaty rights. Harry Richardson has the story. Image shows President Calvin Coolidge posed with Natives, possibly from the Plateau area in the Northwestern United States, near the south lawn of the White House. Image Courtesy: Library of Congress, https://loc.gov/pictures/resource/cph.3c11409/ ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/wort-89-9fm-madison-6475612/episodes/indian-citizenship-act-passes-1924/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/wort-89-9fm-madison-6475612/indian-citizenship-act-passes-1924.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.