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Mike__M

(1,052 posts) Mon Feb 1, 2016, 03:19 AM Feb 2016

"What if Indian Country had a say in electing the next president?"

Mark Trahant, in Native Hoop Magazine Page 66.

Winning Indian Country
An irreverent guide to the 2016 elections

What if Indian Country had a say in electing the next president? What if candidates had to visit tribal communities and native urban centers and ask for our vote? What if American Indians and Alaska Natives had sway far beyond the small percentage of voters that our population represents? What if all we had to do to win was to vote?

Trahant is optimistic.

Who will be Indian Country's Barack Obama? She's probably already been elected to a state office.

http://www.magcloud.com/webviewer/1046728?__r=&s=v

For what it's worth, there's a photo of Senator Sanders on page 30 of the same magazine.

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"What if Indian Country had a say in electing the next president?" (Original Post) Mike__M Feb 2016 OP

Can't Native Americans vote? The Wielding Truth Feb 2016 #1

Huh? Of course they can. CBGLuthier Feb 2016 #2

They can and they do. Rides are organized all over the reservations here Warpy Feb 2016 #3

The Wielding Truth

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1. Can't Native Americans vote?

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Mon Feb 1, 2016, 03:29 AM

Feb 2016

CBGLuthier

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2. Huh? Of course they can.

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Mon Feb 1, 2016, 03:30 AM

Feb 2016

Warpy

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3. They can and they do. Rides are organized all over the reservations here

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Mon Feb 1, 2016, 04:32 AM

Feb 2016

and most people are strong Democrats, at least that's what they tell me and I have no reason to mistrust them.

There was a push while Richardson was in office for voter ID. The tribes fought against it hardest of all of us and won because some of their ID is pretty informal, people not keeping a hell of a lot of paper around to show. I don't know if Richardson would have signed the legislation if it hadn't gone down in flames. I think he's likely to have vetoed it but you never know about so called centrists.

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