Native Vote4/30/2013
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Voter ID bill gets local support
(North Carolina) -- Three of five House Democrats who voted in favor of a voter ID bill last week represent parts of Robeson County.
4/26/2013
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HOPKINS: North Dakota Voter ID Bill Threatens to Silence Native Votes
(North Dakota) -- One would think that if you’re a U.S. Congressman who insulted your state’s largest minority population and threatened bodily injury to...
4/9/2013
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NEWCOMB: The Holy See’s Destructive Legacy of Deprimantur
(California) -- Pope Francis—Jorge Mario Bergoglio—is 76 years old. He is the first pope from Latin America, the first Jesuit pope, and the first pope of our...
4/2/2013
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SEMANS: Rights Do Have a Cost
(South Dakota) -- “Everyone talks about rights, but they have a cost,” said attorney Sara Frankenstein in a recent article on ICTMN.com (“With 2014...
4/1/2013
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Judges hear GOP redistricting map challenge
(Arizona) -- Arizona redistricting map Federal judges hearing a civil suit brought by Republican voters who claim the state’s new legislative maps were illegally...
3/30/2013
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Electoral College Reform Map: A New Way to Approach Voting
(USA) -- Every election year the Electoral College is put under a microscope as many believe the system is not a solid form of selecting the next President of the United...
3/28/2013
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Feds: Judge wrong to deny Indian election offices
(Montana) -- Civil rights attorneys from the U.S. Justice Department contend a federal judge wrongly denied a request to establish satellite election offices for...
3/19/2013
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Montana Democrats Rebuff Native Voting-Rights Lawsuit
(Montana) -- The Montana Democratic Party has rejected a March 6, 2013, request from Mark Wandering Medicine, Northern Cheyenne, to endorse the Native side in the voting...
3/11/2013
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Debate over Alaska Native voting may be a preview of 2014 Senate race
(Alaska) -- The sparring over whether U.S. Sen. Mark Begich was correct in his assertions last week that the Parnell administration and some legislators seek to suppress...
3/8/2013
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Proposal to change voter-registration rules fueling debate
(North Dakota) -- To Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne, the state law requiring proof of citizenship for voter registration is “common sense,” not a burden...
3/6/2013
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KADER: Indian Reservations, Order and Control
(USA) -- I have recently become aware that a book entitled The Militarization of Indian Country (MSU Press – Makwa Enewed series) by ICTMN contributor Winona...
3/5/2013
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Native American voting rights case gets a 2nd look
(Montana) -- The United States Ninth Circuit Court has agreed to hear to hear an appeal in a Native American voting rights. Montana federal judge Richard Cebull denied a...
3/4/2013
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Native American voting rights case gets a second look
(Montana) -- A Native American voting rights case gets a second look as the United States Ninth Circuit Court agrees to hear an appeal. Montana federal judge, Richard...
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Keith Harper, Cobell Lawyer, Bundled at Least $500,000 for Obama's Re-Election
(Washington D.C.) -- Keith Harper, one of the principal lawyers who negotiated the $3.4 billion Cobell settlement with the Obama administration, has been listed by the...
2/22/2013
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Appeals court: Indian voting lawsuit can go on
(Montana) -- An appellate court has ruled a lawsuit seeking satellite voting offices on three Montana reservations can go on.
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NEWCOMB: Jefferson Keel’s Message of Political Assimilation
(USA) -- February 14, 2013, in Washington, D.C., Jefferson Keel (Chickasaw Nation) delivered his "State of the Indian Nations” address in his capacity as...
2/19/2013
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TRAHANT: Two books add perspective to current debates over Indian Country’s future
(USA) -- Later this morning President Barack Obama will make yet another pitch, calling on Congress to stop the sequester with a balanced approach. Of course nothing...
1/29/2013
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GALANDA: Don't Believe the Land-Consolidation Hype
(Washington) -- When the United States supposedly sent copy,000 checks to over 300,000 Indians in time for Christmas or the New Year, the holiday good tidings read:...
1/28/2013
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TRAHANT: Ryan says ‘sequester is going to happen’
(Washington D.C.) -- Over the weekend the outlines of the federal budget sequester became clearer. On Friday a senior Defense Department leader said that once the...
1/3/2013
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Past sponsors of voter ID bills won't push measure this session
(New Mexico) -- Republican lawmakers might have given up on a bill that has been introduced in nearly every New Mexico legislative session in the past dozen years or so...
12/1/2012
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TRAHANT: So the Election Is Over – Now the Politics Are About to Turn Nasty
(Washington D.C.) -- President Barack Obama’s election celebration won’t last long. He only has until the end of the year to pressure Congress – the...
11/23/2012
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Marguerite Salazar: Toward a healthier future in Indian County
(USA) -- November 23 is Native American Heritage Day, and I hope you’ll join me in honoring American Indians and Alaska Natives who are building a stronger and...
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LaDUKE: Moving On: Election 2012 and Some Lessons
(Minnesota) -- We just saw some $6 billion spent on the most expensive election in history. It’s a couple of weeks later, and I think I’ve recovered from the...
11/21/2012
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Public officials want attorney fees in American Indian voting suit
(Wyoming) -- State and county officials who prevailed in an American Indian voting rights case are seeking attorney fees.
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Martin: Indians weren't invited to the 1st Thanksgiving
(USA) -- In 1620, the English ship Mayflower landed on the North American coast off-loading some 100 Puritan religious fanatics (the so-called “Pilgrims”) in...
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MOYA-SMITH: Two Reasons Why It’s Wrong to Dress Up Like an Indian
(USA) -- It’s 10 a.m. and I’m once again completely stoned on chocolate and coffee. I decided yesterday, for no apparent reason at all, that I would consume...
11/19/2012
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GIAGO: Still sweating after 34 years of my weekly columns
(South Dakota) -- A famous columnist once wrote, “It is easy to write a weekly column. All you have to do is sit in front of your typewriter until you sweat blood...
11/17/2012
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MACARRO: Elections 2012: Tribes Becoming Increasingly Sophisticated
(California) -- Just one year ago, the Democrats were written off as likely to lose their majority and control of the Senate to the Republicans.
11/16/2012
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CHAMPAGNE: Regaining Stewardship Over American Indian Education
(California) -- Very little contemporary American Indian education is tribally focused. Instead, we are presented with reams of policy and research about Indian students...
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YELLOWTAIL: It’s an Exciting Time to Be an American Indian
(USA) -- For those of you connected to Indian country via cyberspace you’ll see that there has never been a more exciting time to be Native American than the...
11/15/2012
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SEMANS: Native Vote Packs a Punch—Again
(Washington) -- Who would think that a group that makes up about one percent of the overall population could carry such a wallop? From 2000, when we defeated infamous...
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The Native Youth Voice This Election Year
(USA) -- The 2012 elections have come and gone, President Barack Obama has been re-elected to a second term as Commander and Chief and the minority vote helped in his...
11/13/2012
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Election 2012: Shot at and Missed
(Texas) -- The battle is over, and pundits now stroll to the battlefield and shoot the survivors. I have used this bully pulpit to urge that Indians bloc vote only when...
11/12/2012
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Fresh Blood in Fremont County: The Voting Rights Act brings new representation outside the reservation
(Wyoming) -- The Voting Rights Act lawsuit that replaced at-large voting for county commissioners with district-by-district elections in Fremont County has shifted the...
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News analysis: How Bullock won Montana governor's race
(Montana) -- Several factors helped Democrat Steve Bullock eke out a narrow victory over Republican Rick Hill in the Montana governor’s race last week.
11/11/2012
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Tim Giago: Why an Indian voted for a South Dakota Republican
(South Dakota) -- Holy GOP! I did the unthinkable! I’m Native American and I voted for a Republican! No, I didn’t vote for Mitt Romney. Now that would have...
11/10/2012
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OUTMAN: Mitt Romney’s Pre-Edited Concession/Confession Speech in My Dreams
(Oregon) -- My Fellow Americans, It is with sadness that I concede the election to President Obama. He fought a good campaign and, while I thought I had a chance, the...
11/9/2012
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NCAI welcomes second Obama term
(Washington D.C.) -- The National Congress of American Indians is hailing the results of the 2012 election, including the re-election of President Barack Obama, as an...
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National group touts success of Native vote push
(USA) -- Organizers of a massive get-out-the-vote campaign that targeted Native American communities across the country are considering their efforts a success.
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American Indians appeal satellite voting ruling
(Montana) -- A group of American Indians are appealing a judge's ruling that denied their request to establish satellite voting offices on three Montana reservations.
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Group says Indian voters were turned away
(Montana) -- A Native American voter advocacy group says scores of potential voters were turned away from polling stations in Browning on election night because of a...
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Navajos come out full force for Obama
(Arizona) -- It turned out that President Barack Obama didn't need the help of Navajo voters, winning re-election easily in Tuesday's election.
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North Dakota NATIVE VOTE efforts show at the polls
(North Dakota) -- Despite the required recount, North Dakota tribes and Indian Country were already celebrating the efforts put forth for Indian champion Heidi Heitkamp...
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Over 50 percent of registered voters cast their ballots
(Arizona) -- A tad over 50 percent of the registered voters for the Navajo Nation elections voted in the general election, according to figures provided late Tuesday by...
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ROSS: Well Done Indian Country: Amazing Job During the Election, but Now the Hard Work Begins
(Washington) -- Ok, now the election’s done. Good. Thank God—it went on about six months too long. There went a billion dollars that could’ve been used...
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Tribes, individuals ask to intervene in Alaska's challenge of Voting Rights Act
(Alaska) -- The Native American Rights Fund (NARF) announced that four individuals and four Alaska Native tribal governments asked on Tuesday to join with U.S. Attorney...
11/8/2012
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Elections 2012: Driven by data? Make it so in Indian Country Too
(Idaho) -- One of the narratives of this campaign was how Team Obama was driven by data. In Time magazine, Michael Schere, wrote: “In late spring, the backroom...
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Elections 2012: Look at the Numbers and Indian Country Outperformed
(Idaho) -- Indian country is the smallest demographic slice of what is America. Yet when the history of the 2012 election is written, it must be said, that Indian...
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Elections 2012: Saving the Republican Brand in Indian Country
(Idaho) -- The Republican Party doubled the number of American Indian tribal members serving in Congress, from one to two. Markwayne Mullin will join Tom Cole as a...
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ROSS: Well Done Indian Country: Amazing Job During the Election, but Now the Hard Work Begins
(USA) -- Ok, now the election’s done. Good. Thank God—it went on about six months too long. There went a billion dollars that could’ve been used to...
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ERDRICH: Voting in Little Earth
(Minnesota) -- Little Earth of United Tribes is a Native-preference housing development within the larger city of Minneapolis, and it is where my daughter Persia and I...
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OP/ED: North Dakota Native Vote Efforts Show at the Polls
(North Dakota) -- Despite the required recount, North Dakota tribes and Indian country were already celebrating the efforts put forth for Indian champion Heidi Heitkamp...
11/7/2012
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U.S. judge explains ruling on Indian voting; plaintiffs promise appeal
(Montana) -- In a ruling filed on Election Day, Chief U.S. District Judge Richard Cebull formally explained his earlier decision denying an emergency order to force...
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Blackfeet Voters Hampered by Intimidation, Lack of Ballots
(Montana) -- In the late afternoon of an Election Day marred by voter intimidation and what appeared to be a faked anthrax attack on the Blackfeet tribal hall in...
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Native American Voters
(North Dakota) -- Demographics have made a difference in past elections, and yesterday`s vote proved to be similar. Native Americans in North Dakota have clearly favored...
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Native Americans Rock The Vote
(Arizona) -- When Arizona’s congressional map was redrawn, 12 of the state’s American Indian tribes campaigned to be in the same district with the hopes of...
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Tester, Heitkamp Score Victories With Native Vote
(Montana) -- The American Indian vote scored some big victories for politicians on election night in America. In the days leading up to the November 6 election,...
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THE BREAK DOWN: Map shows the Navajo Nation, was split on Obama and Romney
(Arizona) -- The 1st Congressional District is still a tight race, according to election officials and ballots are still being counted. However, Anne Kirkpatrick is in...
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Turnout was strong, results slow to come
(Wyoming) -- The doors are locked at the Arapahoe Middle School boardroom. Everyone in the room – about 63 people who do not yet have a ballot in their hands...
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Indian vote fails to sway outcome of House race in South Dakota
(South Dakota) -- Republican Kristi Noem sailed to re-election on Tuesday for South Dakota's sole U.S. House seat despite strong support in Indian Country for...
11/6/2012
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Chaske Spencer and Mariah Watchman Rocking the Vote (an Election Day Special Steven Judd Image)
(Wisconsin) -- We usually call this the “Steven Judd Image of the Week,” but this week’s image is so amazing that we had to switch up the headline a...
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Navajo executive employees get 8 hours off to vote
(Arizona) -- Employees in the Navajo Nation's executive branch are getting eight hours off Tuesday to vote.
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Trahant Tells PBS NewsHour How Important Native Vote Is in Montana
(Montana) -- Mark Trahant, an Indian Country Today Media Network contributor, tells PBS NewsHour just how important the Native American vote is in a state like Montana,...
11/5/2012
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Montana Native Voters Aren’t Equal—But That’s Not Enough, Says Judge
(Montana) -- U.S. District Court Chief Judge Richard Cebull has denied an emergency request by Montana Indians, including lead plaintiff Mark Wandering Medicine,...
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Green Party VP Candidate Talks American Indian Roots & Real Action for the Future
(Washington D.C.) -- Green Party vice-presidential candidate Cheri Honkala says her Chippewa heritage is a part of her biography that few people this year have asked her...
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Indian Attorney Association to help voters on election day
(Oklahoma) -- The Oklahoma Indian Bar Association (OIBA) will be staffing a non-partisan voter assistance hotline on Election Day, Tuesday, November 6, 2012 to help make...
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Montana Senator Jon Tester Urges Republicans and Democrats to Work Together for Indian Country
(Montana) -- When Senator Jon Tester (D-Montana) pulled out a victory over former senator Conrad Burns by just 3,500 votes in 2006, he was quick to credit the members of...
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Native Sun News: Indian voters lobby for local polling station
(South Dakota) -- The placement of a new polling site in the Lakota Community Homes neighborhood of Rapid City will make it easier for the area’s voters —...
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No write-in candidates for Navajo chapter elections
(New Mexico) -- As Navajo voters go to the polls today to vote for their chapter officials, they have one less option to choose from: the write-in candidate.
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Shiprock Chapter election, others hoped to bring in votes
(New Mexico) -- While the polls are bustling nationwide, the same can be said for polls on the Navajo Nation, especially those in Shiprock.
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Strong Democratic Turnout In Shannon County
(South Dakota) -- In most elections, South Dakota is a reliably red-Republican state. But Shannon County, which is located entirely within the Pine Ridge Indian...
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REP. COLE: Democrats Stoke Unnecessary Fear Over Ryan Budget and Indian Country
(Washington D.C.) -- In their recent letter to Indian Country Today Media Network, Congressmen Ed Markey and Ben Ray Lujan expressed concern that chronically underfunded...
11/3/2012
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Heidi Heitkamp: Taking the Senate Race to Native North Dakota
(South Dakota) -- North Dakota’s Democratic Senate candidate, Heidi Heitkamp, is working hard for the Native vote. With five reservations and nearly 40,000 Indian...
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Sizing Up the Vote: The Key Races and Issues Across Indian Country
(USA) -- While most of the media attention this election cycle has focused on the close presidential race between President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, there are many...
11/2/2012
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Crow voters go to the polls Saturday
(Montana) -- Members of the Crow Tribe will go to the polls Saturday to elect the four members of the executive branch who will serve four-year terms.
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Gauging the Native Veteran Vote
(USA) -- In the 2012 election season, a considerable amount of emphasis has been placed on the status of the U.S. military. In the last debate between President Barack...
11/1/2012
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Elections 2012: Hurricane Sandy is ‘X’ Factor Blowing Away Predictions
(Idaho) -- Hurricane Sandy is the monster storm threatening millions of people living on the eastern seaboard, already shutting down many cities and the federal...
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Elections 2012: Latest Polls are Underwater
(Idaho) -- The normal practice the Monday before an election would be to dive deep into the polls, look for last minute trends, weak spots, and opportunities.
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Elections 2012: Montana Democratic Candidates Tell Indian Country – We Need Your Vote
(Montana) -- Montana’s Democratic candidates are on a 1,700 mile road trip across the state’s seven Indian reservations. On Halloween night the tour stopped...
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Elections 2012: Montana’s Brian Schweitzer – The Best Governor For Indian Country – Ever
(Montana) -- Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer will not be found on any ballot next week. But his presence is felt across Indian country. Schweitzer’s eight years in...
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Elections 2012: Native Americans Have More Influence in New Mexico Than Any Other State
(Idaho) -- Native American voters have more direct influence in New Mexico then in any other state. As a constituent group, Native voters represent more than 9 percent...
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Elections 2012: Polls, Polls and the Discovery of Climate Change
(Idaho) -- One interesting poll is taken by Gallup and asks a simple question: Who do you think will win? Not who you will vote for, but what do you think everyone else...
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Nebraska Election Roundup: Key Issues for Tribes and Races to Watch
(Nebraska) -- Nebraska tribes are looking more to high-profile races than smaller state and local elections come November 6. With key issues being economic development,...
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OP/ED: Kristi Noem and Mary Bono Mack Are Both Friends to Indian Country
(Georgia) -- To a certain species of political observer, the popular impulse when confronted with ideological complexity is to see past any suggestion of nuance to a...
10/31/2012
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Dems court Indian vote
(Montana) -- On Tuesday afternoon, a caravan that included Montana’s top Democrats up for election or re-election kicked off a three-day tour of all seven Indian...
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Oglala District President Says Few Likely to Vote on Pine Ridge Reservation
(South Dakota) -- Out of the 50,000 Oglala Lakotas enrolled on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, 5,000 are likely to make it to the polls, said District...
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Cherokee Nation Issue New Photo ID; Card Does Not Meet Oklahoma Voter ID Criteria
(Oklahoma) -- There are many circumstances in today’s post-September 11 world where more than one state-issued photo ID is needed. These include applying for a...
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Get out the Native Vote next Tuesday!
(Minnesota) -- The general election is NEXT week – Tuesday, November 6. And although it’s too late for individuals to register to vote in this election, if...
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Oneida rally's goal: Make voting 'exciting'
(Wisconsin) -- With the constant stream of political ads and candidate visits, voters are starting to feel fatigued. In an effort to encourage people to cast their...
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Tribal leaders push for big Indian voter turnout
(New Mexico) -- A tribal newspaper in Arizona is publishing a detailed voter guide for the first time ever. A New Mexico pueblo is sending kindergartners home with get-...
10/30/2012
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Judge denies satellite voting for Montana Indians
(Montana) -- A federal judge on Tuesday denied an emergency order sought by a group of American Indians who wanted to force officials to provide satellite voting on...
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Mont. Indians seek election order as time runs out
(Montana) -- A group of American Indians returned to federal court Tuesday seeking an order that would force county election officials to set up satellite voting...
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Elections 2012: President, Congress Will Have to Figure Out How to Pay For Sandy While Avoiding the Fiscal Cliff
(Washington D.C.) -- The monster storm Sandy could not come at a worse time. A few weeks from now the president-elect (either this one or the next one) will be...
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Elections 2012: When Does the Campaign Start Again?
(USA) -- Will there be enough time to restart the presidential campaigns? With a week to go candidates want to do what they can to get their message out to any potential...
10/29/2012
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Tribal members seek more polling places on remote Montana reservations
(Montana) -- Attorneys for 15 American Indians are due in federal court Monday seeking an order that would force election officials to set up satellite voting offices on...
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Elections 2012: All Indians Are Democrats? Not in Oklahoma
(Oklahoma) -- Oklahoma is not a swing state. Four years ago, when Obama was much more popular, he did not carry a single county. That’s likely again. Plus some.
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Elections 2012: Climate Change Largely Missing From Election … Until Sandy?
(USA) -- Hurricane Sandy is a deadly reminder that the world is changing. The dreadful storm also highlights the one topic that has been near off-limits this election...
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OP/ED: A History of Indian Voting Rights and Why It’s Important to Vote
(Arizona) -- There has been no Indian Voting Rights Act, and no congressional hearings or testimony on such a bill. But as I demonstrated in my book Racism in Indian...
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Republicans Blast President Obama’s Tribal Jobs Record
(Washington D.C.) -- Several Republicans in Congress say President Barack Obama has offered more rhetoric on tribal job creation than meaningful, measurable action.
10/28/2012
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American Indians make voices heard this election cycle
(Washington D.C.) -- American Indians – long a forgotten and ignored constituency in U.S. politics – are increasingly getting themselves involved in the...
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Elections 2012: Abortion Rights Resurfaces as an Election Issue
(Idaho) -- The politics of abortion continues to surface in this year’s presidential race, something that Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney hoped to...
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Jefferson Keel: ‘Voting Is One of Our Greatest Sovereign Rights’
(USA) -- The president of the National Congress of American Indians opened the organization’s 69th Annual Convention and Marketplace with an urgent message to...
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LETTER: Obama has worked for Native Americans
(North Carolina) -- Native Americans have had few friends in the White House, but in recent history Native Americans have had no better advocate then President Obama.
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Denise Juneau Faces Competition From Republican Sandy Welch
(Montana) -- Montana Superintendent of Public Instruction Denise Juneau, a Democrat, was the first American Indian woman to be elected to a statewide executive office...
10/27/2012
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Elections 2012: Two Weeks to Go and Then We’ll Know?
(Idaho) -- Two weeks from now we will start to know who’s won. We might have an idea early, especially after the results from Florida and Ohio arrive. Or it’...
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Speaker of the House John Boehner: ‘We Can Do Better’
(Idaho) -- In recent months, my role as Speaker of the House has allowed me to travel much of our great nation—including Indian country—and talk to Americans...
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United States Backs Native Voting Rights in Montana, Counties Want $90K if They Lose
(Montana) -- In spare and elegant prose, the United States has weighed in on behalf of Montana Native voters suing for early-voting satellite offices on the Crow,...
10/26/2012
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Some question tribal ID usability under amendment
(Minnesota) -- In 2004, a massive “get out the vote” campaign was aimed at encouraging American Indians to get to the polls across a handful of states. In...
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Post-INDN’s List, Kalyn Free Continues to Shape Native Election Process
(Oklahoma) -- Just months after the Indigenous Democratic Network—known throughout Indian country as INDN’s List—officially shut its doors, in January...
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TEX HALL: Why I’m Voting for President Obama
(North Dakota) -- Like most Native Americans, I jumped at the chance to throw my support behind President Obama in his 2008 campaign. Four years later, although some of...
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Native Vote Could Sway National and Local Elections in Michigan
(Michigan) -- Environmental concerns, border control and other state and national issues are among the Election Day hot topics for Michigan’s Native population.
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Native Vote Could Sway National and Local Elections in Michigan
(Michigan) -- Environmental concerns, border control and other state and national issues are among the Election Day hot topics for Michigan’s Native population.
10/25/2012
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Elections 2012: It’s Game On for Wisconsin’s Native Voters
(Wisconsin) -- In Wisconsin, it’s game on. The top three “tipping point” states – at least according to The New York Times’ number cruncher...
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Elections 2012: Vote Early, Vote For … and It’s Not Always Easy to Register
(Washington D.C.) -- President Barack Obama, campaigning in Ohio, told supporters today to “vote early, like me.” And, Obama in a YouTube video, Vote Early,...
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Native Voting in Colorado Offers Clout
(Colorado) -- Until 2010, Colorado hadn’t had both a Democratic governor and a majority in both houses for 50 years. The current election offers the possibility of...
10/24/2012
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WILSON: Good friend comes down with case of Romneysia
(South Dakota) -- I awoke early this morning concerned that my good friend Tim Giago had contracted Romneysia by wedding himself to Kristi Noem’s reelection...
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OP/ED: A Voice for Indian Country in the U.S. Senate
(North Dakota) -- When I spend time on North Dakota reservations, so many friends ask me how I am holding up from all of the negative attacks from out-of-state...
10/23/2012
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Elections 2012: Bipartisan at NCAI, VAWA and the Candidate, and Airbrushing History Since 1776
(California) -- American Indian and Alaska Native affairs are bipartisan issues. At the National Congress of American Indians meeting in Sacramento this week...
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Elections 2012: National Congress of American Indians Challenges ID Laws, Promotes Native Voters
(California) -- The National Congress of American Indians set an ambitious goal for this election cycle: The largest Native turnout in history. That means registering...
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Elections 2012: Obama Says Massive January Budget Cuts ‘Will Not Happen’
(Washington D.C.) -- President Barack Obama made an important promise during Monday night’s debate. He said flat out: The massive budget cuts called sequestration...
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Native American group labels Wisconsin "state of concern" for Indian voters
(Wisconsin) -- A Native American advocacy group says photo ID laws in a dozen states could drive down the numbers of Indian voters. And the group labels Wisconsin as one...
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National tribal group raises concern with Alaska over voter ID laws
(Alaska) -- The National Congress of American Indians released a report this week naming Alaska as one of six “states of concern” for Native voters due to...
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COMMENTARY: Anti-American Indian Politics, Washington State Style
(Washington) -- The behavior of Scott Brown, his staff and supporters in Massachusetts’ U.S. Senate race shined a light on anti-Indian racism in American politics...
10/22/2012
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Voter ID laws could negatively affect Native American participation, group says
(New Mexico) -- New voter identification laws in a dozen states could negatively affect voter participation in Native American and Alaska Native communities, a tribal...
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GIAGO: Kristi Noem is still the right choice for South Dakota
(South Dakota) -- I’ve never met Matt Varilek, the Democrat running against incumbent Kristi Noem (R-SD) for the lone Congressional seat in South Dakota. However,...
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Native Sun News: Kristi Noem and Matt Varilek meet for debate
(South Dakota) -- South Dakota’s lone congresswoman, Republican Kristi Noem, and her Democratic challenger, Matt Varilek, squared off against one another in their...
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BLOG: North Dakota Native Americans Could Decide U.S. Senate Seat
(North Dakota) -- The United States Senate race in North Dakota has become one of the most contested races in the country. This race could come down to a matter of...
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Elections 2012: Entitlements in Florida – Don’t Cut My Benefits
(Florida) -- Florida would be the ideal setting for a debate that remains unscheduled. Namely, what to do about health care, entitlement spending, and the demographic...
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Elections 2012: Manifest Destiny is a Topic for Monday Debate
(USA) -- A T-shirt with the words “Manifest Destiny” became an instant cause in Indian country recently and especially on Social Media. Thousands of people...
10/19/2012
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Elections 2012: October Surprise? Who? What? We Only Know the When
(USA) -- You gotta admit: It’s a grabber. A clock is counting down until Monday at 5:30 p.m. Eastern. Then, supposedly, there will be the reveal, an October...
10/18/2012
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Elections 2012: A Real Tie? The Challenge of Governing America
(Washington D.C.) -- How does the American electorate get past a tie? And what will it mean for actually governing? There are now less than three weeks to go and the...
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Elections 2012: Short Takes: Republicans, Again? And Free Markets in Indian Country
(Washington D.C.) -- The online publication Politico says that Republicans are at it again and “in danger of blowing its shot at a majority for the second cycle in...
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Arizona’s Native Vote Could Help Sway a Democratic Majority in Senate
(Arizona) -- With Arizona poised to help decide the partisan balance in the U.S. Senate, competition in the state’s race is fierce.
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Elections 2012: Taking a Look at George McGovern, the First Barack Obama
(Washington D.C.) -- George McGovern was Barack Obama before Obama. His 1972 presidential campaign sparked an interest in politics for many American Indian people in a...
10/17/2012
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NAFSA Urges Indian Country To Turn Out for November Elections
(Washington D.C.) -- The Native American Financial Services Association (NAFSA) today reiterated its strong encouragement that all eligible Native Americans participate...
10/16/2012
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Elections 2012: Nevada is America, Only More So
(Nevada) -- The late writer Wallace Stegner once described the West as America, only more so. And Nevada is even more so.
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Elections 2012: Obama and Romney Debate the Divide That Is America
(Washington D.C.) -- Tonight’s debate is all about Barack Obama. The storyline is oft repeated at this point. The president was not on his game at the first debate...
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Elections 2012: On This Night Obama Gets a Kablooey While Romney Remembers a Binder Full of Women
(USA) -- President Barack Obama and challenger Mitt Romney went back and forth for 90 minutes exposing sharp differences over policy. And style.
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Native Americans sue for early voting
(Montana) -- American Indian groups in Montana have sued for early-voting offices on their reservations. Their request is opposed by election officials, both Republicans...
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Grassrooting vote the Native Vote 2012, Native Style!
(California) -- On the grassroots trail of a Native American candidate seeking to become a Council member in Richmond, CA.
10/15/2012
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Elections 2012: Arizona is New Swing State; American Indians, Latinos Will Decide Outcome
(Arizona) -- Arizona is a state that most polls and pundits long ago wrote off. The thinking was simply – it’s a Republican state. It was Barry Goldwater...
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Elections 2012: Eighty Undecided Voters Are on Stage in Tuesday’s Debate
(Virginia) -- President Barack Obama spent the weekend in Williamsburg, Virginia, preparing for Tuesday’s Town Hall style debate with Republican challenger Mitt...
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Elections 2012: Who Wins With Early Voting?
(USA) -- Does early voting really favor one candidate over another? Last week I reported an Ohio poll from Think Progress that said early voters were far more inclined...
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Restoring the Circle Campaign to End Sexual Assault Against American Indian Women Will Compliment Joe Biden’s 1 is 2 Many Initiative
(Washington D.C.) -- In September 2011, Vice President Joe Biden launched the “1 is 2 Many” initiative to raise awareness of the need to reduce dating...
10/14/2012
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BLOG: Your Right to Vote: Use It to Represent
(South Dakota) -- Most often, society assumes that Native people were “given” the right to vote in 1924 when the government signed the Indian Citizenship Act...
10/12/2012
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Native Americans sue over lack of election services on Montana reservations
(Montana) -- Fifteen Native Americans are suing state and county officials over a lack of election services on three Montana reservations, saying their inability to vote...
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PEMBER: Minnesota’s Proposed Voter ID Constitutional Amendment Could Jeopardize Use of Tribal Identification
(Minnesota) -- The use of tribal identification for voting in Minnesota may be in jeopardy if voters pass the proposed voter ID constitutional amendment in the upcoming...
10/11/2012
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Elections 2012: A Bunch of Malarkey, the Debate Joe Biden Wanted
(Idaho) -- It was the debate Vice President Joe Biden wanted. He had fun. He pounced when Republican challenger Paul Ryan tossed out numbers that could not be backed up.
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Elections 2012: An American Tradition – Who Can’t Vote?
(Idaho) -- American elections have often been defined by who is not allowed to vote. Two days before the Declaration of Independence, for example the New Jersey...
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Elections 2012: Fact Checking, Tweeting, and Wearing Indian Lenses During Thursday’s Debate
(Idaho) -- A lot of the polling I’ve been reporting for Indian Country Today Media Network is about who’s winning the election. This is gossip of the first...
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Elections 2012: Ready to Rumble? The Senate Versus the House
(Idaho) -- Are you ready to rumble? There is no clearer division in American politics than the policy split between the United States Senate and the House of...
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Elections 2012: Wordles, Words, and Who’s Watching?
(Idaho) -- Do you see what the politicians said? What do their words look like? It turns out that’s easily done with a graphic representation in a wordle (also...
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My Turn: Protect your future - vote
(Alaska) -- In November of 1912, thirteen men and one woman gathered together in Juneau to organize the Alaska Native Brotherhood, which is now celebrating its momentous...
10/10/2012
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Mitt Romney Answers Questions From Indian Country Today Media Network in Exclusive Exchange
(Washington D.C.) -- Not willing to cede the American Indian vote in what promises to be a close presidential election this November, Republican candidate Mitt Romney...
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Elections 2012: Vice Presidents’ Footnote to Indian History – Feeding Peanuts to Pigeons and Squirrels
(Washington D.C.) -- The office of Vice President may be worth at least a footnote in the long history of tribal, federal relations.
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Election Complaint Filed
(Montana) -- Sixteen Native American plaintiffs filed a lawsuit against Montana's Secretary of State and several county officials Wednesday. They claim they are...
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Montana Tribes Demand Equal Access to Early Voting
(Montana) -- On October 10, members of three Montana tribes—Northern Cheyenne, Crow and Gros Ventre and Assiniboine—filed a voting-rights lawsuit in federal...
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Elections 2012: Counting Jobs, Counting Birds and Counting Voters
(USA) -- Have you heard the one about the cooked job numbers? Last week former GE chief executive Jack Welch tweeted: “Unbelievable jobs numbers..these Chicago...
10/9/2012
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Elections 2012: An Arizona Mystery – Will Native Voters Show Up?
(Arizona) -- Arizona is where American Indians could make a difference. At least on paper. Native American voters – potentially some five percent of the state...
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Elections 2012: Beyond the Ballot – Why Districts Matter to Native Americans
(USA) -- There is a conflict that cannot be resolved at the ballot: The geography of tribal borders versus fair, democratic elections in the American system.
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Elections 2012: Four Weeks to Go and a Nation Divided
(USA) -- Four weeks to go and the national polls are quite clear: Romney is winning. Or, look again, and it could be that Obama is winning. The polls are all over the...
10/8/2012
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Groups mobilize to register Native voters
(Oklahoma) -- Voting advocates are reaching across Indian Country where they have never stretched before. Since early 2012, the National Congress of American Indians (...
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Waln: Thoughts on Columbus Day and misuse of ceremonies
(USA) -- This week most of the country is observing Columbus Day. Some of the states now call it Native American or Indigenous People’s Day. In any case, it is a...
10/7/2012
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OP/ED: Indians, the Cavalry and the Tea Party
(Minnesota) -- Reading the recent New York Times story, “Looking, Very Closely, for Voter Fraud” (September 17, 2012) an iconic image from American pop...
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Tea Party Voter Suppression Group Under Investigation For Possible ‘Criminal Conspiracy’
(USA) -- The Tea Party organization launching a multi-pronged voter suppression effort this election is under investigation by Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) for a possible...
10/6/2012
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Denver Presidential Debate? Romney-Obama Debate in Denver Delivers Mixed Messages to Indian Country
(Idaho) -- Denver’s Indian community may not have been 100 percent glued to the TV to watch the presidential debate, but a few who watched were willing to offer...
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Elections 2012: Missing From the Debate – The Indian Health System
(Idaho) -- There is one public health “system” in the United States. Its cost per patient is lower than the rest of the country. Some of the clinics and...
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Elections 2012: Short Takes Following Denver Debate; What You Say, What They Say, and Why Native America Could Pick the Next Senate
(Idaho) -- There is a real problem polling American Indians and Alaska Natives because it’s so hard to get enough people to make the information statistically...
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Elections 2012: Wrapping Up the Denver Debate – Big Bird, Budgets and Back to the States
(Idaho) -- The stark differences between the two presidential candidates, incumbent Barack Obama and former Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney, popped up in nearly every segment.
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RUSSELL: Dual Citizens on the Edge of the Fiscal Cliff
(Texas) -- Tribal governments that disdain being “domestic, dependent nations” should prepare two budgets, similar to the “shadow governments”...
10/5/2012
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Why the Native American Vote Could Win the Senate for Democrats
(USA) -- High up in the nosebleed section of the Democratic National Convention, where the North Dakota delegation sat—the party had no great electoral...
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Romney adviser claims no federally recognized tribes in state
(Massachusetts) -- An Indian affairs adviser to Mitt Romney erroneously claimed there were no federally recognized tribes in Massachusetts when the Republican...
10/1/2012
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Elections 2012: Prepping for the Debate – No Questions from Indian Country
(Washington D.C.) -- Just two questions. Do you plan to watch Wednesday’s presidential debate between Republican challenger Mitt Romney and Democratic incumbent...
9/30/2012
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RUSSELL: Mitt Romney: Out of Touch or Just Mean?
(Texas) -- In another column, I was mean to Willard Mitt Romney of Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Michigan, Utah, and California. My subject was a surreptitious video of...
9/28/2012
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Strong turnout for Alaska Native Vote event
(Alaska) -- Attendees of an Alaska Native Vote event at Elizabeth Peratrovich Hall Thursday had the opportunity to learn about the voting process, get registered to vote...
9/27/2012
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Elections 2012: Invisible in the Polls – Why Indians Don’t Count
(Idaho) -- American Indians and Alaska Natives don’t count. Oh, sure, after Election Day, in a few counties, states and regions, there will be accounts about how...
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Elections 2012: Voter Registration Drive and the Social Media Space
(Idaho) -- A field organizer for Rock the Vote posted on her Facebook page that the group’s early count was at 55,000 registered voters, including those that...
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Elections 2012: What if Obama Wins Big? And Early?
(Idaho) -- The premise of an early victory is becoming a real possibility because President Barack Obama’s poll numbers continue to improve, while Gov. Mitt Romney...
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Elections 2012: Debating South Dakota’s Lone Voice in Congress
(Idaho) -- South Dakota’s lone U.S. Representative is an important office for Indian country. The state that once sent a Lakota man, Ben Reifel, to Congress.
9/26/2012
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RUSSELL: A Voter’s Guide to Political Gaffes
(USA) -- Michael Kinsley, writing in The New York Times, famously defined a gaffe as “when a politician tells the truth—some obvious truth he isn’t...
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Benally Baldenegro May Be Out of the Race in Arizona, But Watching Closely
(Arizona) -- Former Democratic challenger Wenona Benally Baldenegro, Navajo, is transitioning to the private sector following last month’s loss in the primary for...
9/24/2012
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Elections 2012: Debating the Power of the Presidency
(Washington D.C.) -- How much power does the President of the United States have? Really? Sometimes when you listen to candidates, the person in that office has the...
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Elections 2012: Native Voter Drive Kicks Off This Week
(USA) -- More than 35,000 people in 130 communities across the country are participating in Native Vote Action Week beginning today. Tuesday is National Voter...
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Elections 2012: Post-Boldt Politics in Washington State; Seeking Native Support
(Washington) -- Native American issues have come a long way in Washington state. In the 1970s it represented one of the most divided states on tribal issues –...
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Elections 2012: The Myth That Never Leaves – Indians Don’t Pay Taxes
(USA) -- The myth won’t go away: Indians don’t pay taxes. The roots come from a phrase in the U.S. Constitution, “… Indians not taxed.”...
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BLOG: Will John Suthers Drag Down Romney's Presidential Hopes?
(Colorado) -- Among the many reasons Colorado Attorney General John Suthers could drag down Mitt Romney's presidential hopes -- Suthers covets a position running...
9/21/2012
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Group plans voter registration drives, rallies across Indian Country to boost participation
(New Mexico) -- A national tribal advocacy group is planning a week of voter education and registration events in more than 130 communities across Indian Country in an...
9/20/2012
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Elections 2012: An Election Day Surprise? Romney and Ryan
(USA) -- The Romney Campaign has had a bad couple of weeks. There has been dips in the polls – especially in crucial swing states – and missteps,...
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Elections 2012: Coalition Declares ‘State of Emergency’ on Voting Rights in US
(USA) -- A coalition of groups representing Americans yesterday declared a “state of emergency” on voting rights in the U.S. and said that millions of people...
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Elections 2012: Coeur d’Alene Tribal Member Paulette Jordan Holds Fund-Raiser for Idaho House Campaign
(Idaho) -- Coeur d’Alene tribal member Paulette Jordan, running for the Democratic seat in the Idaho House of Representatives in the Fifth District, has her sights...
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Elections 2012: Will Young Voters Bother With Elections?
(USA) -- Univision host Jorge Ramos and Maria Elena Salinas interviewed Republican candidate Mitt Romney at a Meet the Candidate event in Miami on Wednesday night. Ramos...
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OP/ED: "State of Emergency" on Voting Rights Declared
(Washington D.C.) -- The National Congress of American Indians has joined forces with a broad coalition of civil rights, social justice and faith-based organizations,...
9/18/2012
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Elections 2012: An Independent Candidate for President?
(USA) -- Will America ever elect a real independent as president? There are lots of independent candidates running in 2012. Gary Johnson as a Libertarian. Tom Hoefling...
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Elections 2012: North Dakota Candidate Reaches Out to Native American Voters
(North Dakota) -- One way to judge candidates for statewide office is to see what they say on their own websites and then see where they go. Is Indian country mentioned...
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Elections 2012: Romney Blames ‘Those People’ for What America Has Become
(Washington D.C.) -- In a candid moment, when he thought no one was watching, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney dismissed nearly half of America as...
9/17/2012
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Elections 2012: Deeply Destructive Budget Wasn’t Intended to Be Implemented
(Washington D.C.) -- Sequester is a funny word. As a noun it means a general cut in government spending. As a verb it means to hide away.
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Elections 2012: Reinventing The Candidate May Be Republicans’ Last Hope
(Washington D.C.) -- In the 1972 classic film, The Candidate, Robert Redford’s character is told he is free to say anything he wants during the coming campaign....
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Elections 2012: Why Are Treaty Obligations ‘Discretionary’ Spending?
(Washington D.C.) -- Nearly every politician, Democrat, Republican or independent, says that treaties made with American Indian tribes are solemn and sacred obligations.
9/15/2012
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Indians ask for time before legislature in Nevada
(Nevada) -- An innocent remark by a legislator at a luncheon spurred the Nevada Indian Commission to request one day each session for Native Americans to meet with...
9/11/2012
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New Video Aims to Mobilize Rural Native Youth to Register to Vote
(Washington D.C.) -- 66 percent of American Indians and Alaska Natives who were eligible to register to vote in 2008 did so. The other 34 percent—more than one...
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