![]() Mvskoke Media became a tribal-owned free press outlet in 2015, one of few in the United States. ![]() “And I'm like, what more jazzed could you be about democracy than that? Because that doesn't happen every day.” “It's one of the times when the actual people of this government get to decide on the rules and the spectrum of operation of the government,” Mvskoke Media Director Angel Ellis said. And not one of those nations has freedom of the press as a constitutional guarantee.īut that could change this September, when Muscogee Nation citizens take to the polls to vote whether to amend their constitution. While American citizens, Native Americans are also citizens of their own sovereign nations. It’s number one in the Bill of Rights.Ĭongress didn’t grant citizenship to Native Americans until 1924, extending that First Amendment guarantee and all other rights to them thereafter. Freedom of the press is a right many Americans are familiar with.
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