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Six Native American plaintiffs sued the Secretary challenging the statute on grounds that it violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. The plaintiffs contended that Native American communities often lack residential street addresses or do not have clear residential addresses, and ...
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] After a long history of fighting against voting rights restrictions, Native Americans now play an increasingly integral part in United States elections.
By this point, approximately two thirds of Native Americans were already citizens. [37] [38] Notwithstanding, some western states continued to bar Native Americans from voting until 1957. [39] [40] South Dakota refused to follow the law. [41] 1925. Alaska passes a literacy test designed to disenfranchise Alaska Native voters. [42] 1926
Advocates describe the Lewis Voting Rights Act as a revitalization of the landmark 1965 law and argue it would restore needed protections against discriminatory practices that target Native ...
On June 21, 1788, the day the Constitution was ratified and became the foundation for the government of the United States, Native Americans — people who have stewarded land here since time ...
Inequities are especially pronounced in remote regions across the U.S., and some key Southwestern states with large Native American populations. New Mexico is trying something new — a test run of sorts for many new and contested provisions that are part of the state's Native American Voting Rights Act that was passed last year.
The state's new voting rights legislation for Native Americans provides new tools for tribal communities to request convenient on-reservation voting sites and secure ballot deposit boxes with ...
1948: Arizona and New Mexico became one of the last states to extend full voting rights to Native Americans, which had been opposed by some western states in contravention of the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924. [33] [34] 1954-1955: Maine extends full voting rights to Native Americans who live on reservations.