Native American Citizenship Day 2024 is on Saturday, June 15, 2024: American citizenship!!?

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The best web sites to learn are the US Government ones on immigration and visiting:

There are three separate agencies that do work together. Immigration for permanent resident (green card) or citizenship, State Department for Visas or Visa waivers and equivalent to visit or go to school as a temporary stay, and at arrival is about border protection and customs:

which is a piece of Homeland Security now. Italy is a member of the US Visa waiver program and an Italian citizen may visit (but not work) relatively easily. Often, it is best to visit first to get an idea of the true differences and possibly decide where in this large country you would want to live. I live in Las Vegas, born and always lived in the US, but have traveled on business to China and Japan and visited Canada and Mexico and the Bahamas.

Getting permanent residence (Green Card) is much harder. There are many people here illegally already and that is a factor to deal with them. There are many people around the world seeking political asylum and many that have a dream of wealth and fortune in the generally high average standard of living, but be assured there are many poor people here also. The wealth of the US is very skewed with a small percent with great wealth, but a generally capitalist and free society does have opportunities for those with skills and talents. The web sites point to ways such as the annual lottery, marrying citizens, having direct relatives (parents/children) in various priorities. You can read yourself, and some people get legal assistance, but there are many scams within lawyers also that take money and do not help much.

The next step is citizenship and that usually takes years of living here (with a few exceptions on the sites), and taking a test on American history and also a few other factors, but again the number of people applying is large and the US Government is selective about the number of people each year and I have known a few who are very proud as they take the exam, pass it, and then the oath of allegiance to their new country. One guy I worked with immigrated through a work transfer and his children were born here and eventually obtained his citizenship, but still takes years.

Now, a permanent resident (green card) is still a citizen of their native country and cannot vote and does not have full rights. A permanent resident cannot vote in elections or run for political office and may be restricted from certain government jobs. They do pay taxes, work, go to school, get drivers licenses, own property, and have many of the rights of citizens.

A citizen not born here cannot become the US President. That is restricted to those born in the USA. There are very few other restrictions.

I believe even permanent residents must register for Civil Service which would be the military draft, but there has not been a draft since the 1970's, and that is for those I think 18 to 35 (or 30) and if there were a draft would be by birth day (1/365 for each pull of people and not by age (younger first)). I would have to lookup about serving on a jury and jury duty, but I do believe that is citizens rather than also permanent residents.

So, as far as I know, the only position restricted to people born in this country is US President so to that I would say you can never be US President without a Constitution change. Call it ALMOST every right. And the path to get to each step is harder and harder, but feel free to visit any time. The US welcomes visitors and there are even education programs of exchange in place to go to universities. If you have a specialty skill needed, it certainly increases your chances of being welcomed to work in the US.

That should be a fairly complete summary for you, and feel free to browse the web sites, and most people enjoy a visit to Las Vegas with gambling, night clubs, shows, sites, and fine food.

Adding: Repeating: You do not need to contact the US Consulate or embassy to visit. For an Italian Citizen it is done online and no Visa is required to visit - only to work or move here. - Another add: In years of a robust economy of low unemployment more people are allowed to move here to live and work. The economic disaster recession towards the end of the GW Bush administration put a large damper on immigration. Also, Republican party rather than Democratic party policies further restrict immigration, so if looking forward to potential, Democrats (such as President Obama) improve your potentials.

Native American Scholarships?

ok, you aren't going to get a native American scholarship, because you aren't eligible. You aren't eligible because you aren't a tribal citizen. You could start researching it--- which of the three Cherokee tribes isyour grandmother a citizen of? If you know she is 100%, surely you know which nation she belongs to? And then why don't your father and you have a CDIB? If this was true, both you and your dad should have been enrolled citizens at birth. But nevermind. In any case, the tribal scholarships are VERY competitive, require fluency in the tribe's language, a history of community service within the tribe, and an intent to use the degree for the benefit of the tribe.

There are a million other scholarships out there, including pell grants. There are scholarships for your field. Go to the library and ask for the "ultimate scholarship book 2014" It's a 4 inch thick book of scholarships available.

You aren't going to get a Cherokee scholarship (even if you got your citizenship tomorrow- they require citizenship by age 3 to qualify for scholarships- to stop people doing exactly what you're doing- trying to milk your tribe for money, instead of working to benefit the tribe.)

but you have tons of other options. Don't quit so easily.

NATIVE AMERICANS or INDIANS?

Your teacher is wrong AND right!

I think you should be a smart A$$ and tell your teacher NOT TO STEREOTYPE! LOL! And you'd be right....

Not all people of one race agree on anything. So you can't say Native people prefer to be called Indian, because all Native people do not. In fact, many despise the term.

Russell Means of the American Indian Movement actually fights for the term "Indian." ... He says that it comes from Columbus using the term una gente en dios meaning a people of God. He likes to be refered to as a people of God so while he despises Columbus and the Columbus Day holiday he still likes the name. He doesn't like "Native American" because he says it comes from the United States government.

I don't agree with Russell Means on this one. My family is Anishinaabe and we don't use the term Indian. It comes from the murderer, slave trader, rapist Columbus and we despise him and the term. I searched his papers and he NEVER wrote "una gente en dios." It's not there. This fool was lost and thought he was in India! Some argure that India wasn't even called that but it actually was on some Spanish maps. I had a discussion with the historian Jack Weatherford who wrote Indian Givers and he confirmed that with me.

The term "Indian" is also confusing. When people say it, you have to figure out in your head if they are talking about an east Indian or a Native person. The same goes for chat rooms and Internet searches.

Now, Canadian Native people don't like the term "Native American" either because they don't consider themselves to have anything to do with America. I've heard "First Nations People" up there a lot and also Aboriginal.

In fact though, the correct way to describe a Native person here is by their Nations name whether it be Anishinaabe or Lakota or Apache etc.

The problem with using terminology as "Indian" or "Native American" is that you are stereotyping. "Indians rode horses." Well, the Lakota were horse people but the Anishinaabe were not. "Native Americans ate wild rice." Well, the Anishinaabe did, but the Navajo didn't unless they traded for it LOL. You see, all Native Nations are not the same, and are a LOT more different than a lot of people think.

Some people use the ignorant expression, "We are all Americans right? Let's just be called Americans." The problem with that is that Native people are NOT just Americans. Native people have dual citizenship. They are Americans but also citizens of their own nations. A Hopi person is American but first and foremost to that Hopi person, s/he is Hopi! S/he comes from Hopi and most likely lives there. It's a different country inside the United States. Most Americans don't understand that. They think the United States runs from east coast to west coast. It doesn't. There are other foreign nations mixed in there.

So the reason that people are still called Indian is because of confusion and people unwilling to change. The correct way to call a Native person is by their nations name. If I don't know it, I just use Native and drop the "American" part.

No traditional Native I've ever met, especially one who's been raised in the bush, have ever called themself an Indian. It's ALWAYS by their nations name. So, traditionals are called by their nations name whether it be Lakota or Anishinaabe, etc.