Tag: Indigenous voter suppression

ICT NEWS: Troubles at the ballot box: Tribal IDs often aren’t accepted

BY MARY ANNETTE PEMBER, ICT NEWS — NOVEMBER 5, 2024 Complaints surface across the U.S. on Election Day that valid tribal IDs can’t be used, advocates say. Voters who hoped to use their tribal identification cards to cast their ballots are hitting roadblocks across the country, with some being turned away at the polls, election […]

SPL CENTER: Indigenous people face voting obstacles from past and ongoing discrimination

BY RHONDA SONNENBERG, SENIOR STAFF WRITER, SPL CENTER — NOVEMBER 1, 2024 Lori Wise and her husband moved from her home state of Oklahoma to Georgia in 1999, but she did not learn of her paternal Ponca Nation ancestry until 2018, when she discovered the identity of her biological parents and met her biological father for […]