Alan Michelson & Jolene Rickard on Native Sovereignty

Museum of Contemporary Art Denver Colorado USA

Dec 7, 2020

Join Native artist Alan Michelson and scholar Jolene Rickard for a conversation about Native sovereignty, citizenship, and civil rights. For the the first 150 years of United States history, Native Americans were excluded from the citizenry. In 1924, the Indian Citizenship Act made all Native Americans citizens in an effort to assimilate them into White American culture. The act abrogated treaties that northeastern Native nations hold with the US government that recognize them as sovereign nations; some members of these nations, namely the Onondaga of central New York State, protested the act for this reason.