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WASHINGTON—The first skateboard Di'Orr Greenwood ever rode was a cheap plastic one her grandpa had given to her younger brother. "He had so much fun on it that I wanted a little bit of that fun, too," she said. When she was 22, an arson fire left the family home in ashes. They lost almost everything. But Greenwood found some old skateboards unscathed by the fire, and a tool for wood burning that her late uncle had taught her to use. She began carving Navajo designs on s...
WASHINGTON – June 2 marked one century since then-President Calvin Coolidge signed a law granting American citizenship to Native Americans. Women had secured the right to vote four years earlier under the 19th Amendment. For the nation's 250,000 or so Native Americans, the Indian Citizenship Law promised acceptance, economic opportunity and legal protections. But it was not intended to ensure voting rights. That remained the purview of states, and many threw up obstacles f...
