Sacramento Union, 9 March 1917
Right of Indians to Cast Ballots Upheld
Aborigines of California Can Vote Under
Queretaro Treaty, Rules the Supreme Court.
SAN FRANCISCO, March 8. – The right to vote was confirmed to Ethan Anderson, a Lake county Indian, by a state supreme court decision handed down here today. The county clerk of Lake county refused Anderson’s registration on the ground that an Indian was not a citizen. The court held that Indians of native birth and those coming under the treaty of Queretaro, under which peace was established between Mexico and the United States following the Mexican war are entitled to registration.