Indigenous Citizens: Native Americans’ Fight for Sovereignty, 1776-2025 | Chart listen

Ranked for listeners who want the whole story: Indigenous Citizens: Native Americans’ Fight for Sovereignty, 1776-2025 in history, read by Jason Grasl.

A sweeping history of Native Americans’ fraught relationship with United States citizenship and their efforts to protect tribal sovereignty. Only Native Americans have held the political identity of being citizens of nations within a nation. After the American Revolution, they had to decide whether gaining United States citizenship would help to preserve their rights and property or be used to take them away—and they found out that either decision could end in loss.

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