The struggle for voting rights was not limited to African Americans
in the South. American Indians also faced discrimination at the
polls and still do today. This book explores their fight for equal
voting rights and carefully documents how non-Indian officials have
tried to maintain dominance over Native peoples despite the rights
they are guaranteed as American citizens.
Laughlin McDonald has participated in numerous lawsuits brought
on behalf of Native Americans in Montana, Colorado, Nebraska, South
Dakota, and Wyoming. This litigation challenged discriminatory
election practices such as at-large elections, redistricting plans
crafted to dilute voting strength, unfounded allegations of
election fraud on reservations, burdensome identification and
registration requirements, lack of language assistance, and
noncompliance with the Voting Rights Act. McDonald devotes special
attention to the VRA and its amendments, whose protections are
central to realizing the goal of equal political participation.
McDonald describes past and present-day discrimination against
Indians, including land seizures, destruction of bison herds,
attempts to eradicate Native language and culture, and efforts to
remove and in some cases even exterminate tribes. Because of such
treatment, he argues, Indians suffer a severely depressed
socioeconomic status, voting is sharply polarized along racial
lines, and tribes are isolated and lack meaningful interaction with
non-Indians in communities bordering reservations.
Far more than a record of litigation, "American Indians and the
Fight for Equal Voting Rights" paints a broad picture of Indian
political participation by incorporating expert reports,
legislative histories, newspaper accounts, government archives, and
hundreds of interviews with tribal members. This in-depth study of
Indian voting rights recounts the extraordinary progress American
Indians have made and looks toward a more just future.
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