Chairman. while the gentleman is preparing his amendment I can say all I desire to say. A moment ago. in a colloquy with the gentleman from Pennsylvania . I stated that an Indian leaving his tribe could not become a citizen of the United States without being naturalized. My assertion was contradicted. and while it is not a matt3r of special importance it is just as well to be accurate as we go along. I have before me the case in which the Supreme Court has expressly decided what I stated. and the language of the court is: Indians born within the territorial limits of the United States. members of. and owing immediate allegiance to.. one of the Indian tribes (an alien though dependent power) although in a geographical sense born in the United States are no more "born in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof within the meaning of the first section of the fourteenth amendment. than the children of subjects of any part of government born within the domain of that government or the children born within the United States of ambassadors or other public ministers of foreign nations. The court continues and.holds that the Indian is not born subject to the jurisdiction of the United States within the meaning of the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution. and therefore can become a citizen of the United States only by naturalization. In reply to the gentleman from Oregon . who said that they became citizens when their lands are allotted. I beg to say that the act which provided for the apportionment of the land permitted them to become citizens. and therefore that act pro hac vice. is a naturalization. and when they had taken the land in allotment it made them citizens.
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