When did Alaskan Native people become U.S. citizens?

The Alaska Territorial Legislature offered Alaskan citizenship to Native people with a 1915 enabling act, but U.S. citizenship was extended to Alaskan Native peoples in 1924 by the U.S. Congress.

  • Alaska: A History of the 49th State, 2nd ed., by Claus-M. Naske and Herman E. Slotnick. Norman, University of Oklahoma Press, 1987