The First People are and will forever be warriors at heart. The United States granted official citizenship to all native-born Native Americans on June 2, 1924, when President Calvin Coolidge signed the Indian Citizenship Act (also known as the Snyder Act). While the 1924 law granted citizenship, it did not automatically guarantee the right to vote. Voting laws were left to individual states, and some states (such as Arizona and New Mexico) barred Native Americans from voting for decades until later legal challenges and the federal Voting Rights Act of 1965.