As the United States commemorates the 100th anniversary of the Snyder Act of 1924—legislation that granted citizenship and voting rights to Native Americans—tribal voices are poised to play a pivotal ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photos of posters at Native Voter Forum in Milwaukee in October 2024. (Photo/Levi Rickert) Opinion. Last Wednesday, we observed ...
A century ago, just after White women won the right to vote, Yankton Sioux suffragist Zitkala-Sa wrote a letter to the National Woman’s Party, reminding them that women of color had been excluded from ...
For the past century, since the passage of the Snyder Act, also known as the Indian Citizenship Act, Native Americans have faced both overt oppression and insidious abuse by the United States ...
The Columbia and Okanogan Rivers to the east, south and west of the Colville Indian Reservation form natural borders on a map of north-central Washington. On the ground, the reservation’s forested ...
The U.S. Congress has been far too white and far too male for far too long. But that’s all about to change. Come January 2019, a wave of minorities — people of color, women, and women of color — will ...
When Democrats clinched a South Dakota seat in the U.S. Senate and Arizona's governorship by razor-thin margins two years ago, a small voting bloc was credited with tipping the balance: Native ...
Make no mistake: The Trump administration and Senate Republicans are trying to force a justice onto the court to finish the job they could not finish in Congress. They want to destroy the Affordable ...