Challenging Colonialism To Improve Tribal Access to Vote

• In Event: Voting Access, Jurisdictional Issues, and Invisibility: Three Issues Faced by Native American People

Abstract

The issue of access to polling places and the ability to exercise your right to vote in a democratic nation is something our country has struggled with since its inception. Making sure that Native Americans are given every opportunity to vote in a way they are comfortable with, seems like a change that is needed. As Andrea Smith has said “the reality is that there is no way to build a real movement for justice and peace, whether between peoples or between peoples and the land, without challenging…historical and contemporary colonialism”(2005,p.xviii).

Presenter

• Sherina Hume, The North Dakota Justice Opinion and Social Services Survey (NDJOSSS)