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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.
According to 2020 U.S. Census Bureau data, there are 9.7 million people who identify as Native American in the U.S., or 2.9% of the total population.
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
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. According to a survey by the Department of Interior, seven states still refused to grant Indians voting rights in 1938. Discrepancies between federal ...
Fast forward to 2020, he said, and “many people credit the Native vote with deciding to bring Arizona into the (Joe) Biden camp.” Biden won Arizona by about 10,500 votes, as voter turnout ...
The Indian Citizenship Act of 1924 took effect nine months after Smith was born, recognizing Native Americans as U.S. citizens and, on paper, extending the privileges of citizenship to them. Yet ...
At Laguna Pueblo in New Mexico, voting has provided Native Americans with a path to power amid the political rise of pueblo member Deb Haaland. She became one of the first two Native American women in Congress in 2018 before taking the reins of the Interior Department to oversee U.S. obligations to 574 federally recognized tribes.
At the start of the 117th Congress on January 3, 2021, five Native Americans were serving in the House, the largest Native delegation in history: Cole, Mullin, Haaland and Davids were all reelected in 2020, with Republican Yvette Herrell of New Mexico elected for the first time in 2020.