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Native Americans in the United States have had a unique history in their ability to vote and participate in United States elections and politics.Native Americans have been allowed to vote in United States elections since the passage of the Indian Citizenship Act in 1924, but were historically barred in different states from doing so. [1]
Native American women influenced early women's suffrage activists in the United States. The Iroquois nations , which had an egalitarian society, were visited by early feminists and suffragists , such as Lydia Maria Child , Matilda Joslyn Gage , Lucretia Mott , and Elizabeth Cady Stanton .
Native Americans can apply for citizenship through the Indian Naturalization Act. [28] 1893. Colorado passes full women's suffrage. [22] 1896. Women in Utah regain their right to vote. [29] [27] Grandfather clauses are enacted in Louisiana in order to disenfranchise black voters. [30] Women's suffrage is won in Idaho. [27] 1899
A few states continued to deny suffrage, with Utah contesting Native American suffrage until as late as 1962. Coincidentally, another turning point also occurred on June 2, 1924, this time in the ...
[16]: 121 Citizenship was granted in a piecemeal fashion before the Act, which was the first more inclusive method of granting Native American citizenship. Even Native Americans who were granted citizenship rights under the 1924 Act may not have had full citizenship and suffrage rights until 1948 because the right to vote was governed by state law.
U.S. presidential election popular vote totals as a percentage of the total U.S. population. Note the surge in 1828 (extension of suffrage to non-property-owning white men), the drop from 1890 to 1910 (when Southern states disenfranchised most African Americans and many poor whites), and another surge in 1920 (extension of suffrage to women).
Georgia in 1831 meant that Native people would essentially not have a right to vote, until the passage of the 15th amendment, when certain ground was gained towards enfranchisement. Native Americans gained more ground with the passage of the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924. [8]
Native Americans were granted citizenship by an Act of Congress in 1924, [119] but state policies prohibited them from voting. In 1948, a suit brought by World War II veteran Miguel Trujillo resulted in Native Americans gaining the right to vote in New Mexico and Arizona, [120] but some states continued to bar them from voting until 1957. [117 ...