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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.
Those provisions helped increase turnout among Native American voters in the state that year by 25% compared with the 2016 election, according to an analysis by the group All Voting is Local Nevada.
On October 3, 2018, Senator Tom Udall, vice chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, [1] introduced the Native American Voting Rights Act of 2018 (S. 3543) with 13 co-sponsors. [2] An identical bill was introduced in the House of Representatives by Ben Ray Luján (HR 7127). [ 3 ]
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
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.
When Native Americans vote in the 2022 midterm elections, many of their concerns mirror those of other Americans, with some key exceptions driven by their tribal identities. While jobs and the ...
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.