On centennial of citizenship act, Southern Ute leaders see cause to r…

The Southern Ute Tribe this month created an exhibit to mark the 100th anniversary of the Indian Citizenship Act. 

They’re marking the anniversary, Lorelei Cloud said, because a law — passed more than a half-century after the 14th Amendment granted citizenship to persons born or naturalized in the United States — addressing the land’s original inhabitants doesn’t ring out as an anniversary worth celebrating. 

“We should have been citizens long before 1924,” Cloud said of the…