Author: United States. CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1328
Book Description
Congressional Record
Author: United States. CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1328
Book Description
Digests and Lists Pertaining to the Development of Law and Legal Institutions in the Territories of the United States: 1787-1954
Author: William Wirt BlumePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1470
Book Description
Laws, Resolutions, and Memorials of the Territory of Montana Passed at the 1st-16th Session
Author: Montana (Ter.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Laws, Resolutions and Memorials of the Territory of Montana Passed at the Thirteenth Regular Session of the Legislative Assembly
Author: Montana TerritoryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Session laws
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Laws, Resolutions, and Memorials of the Territory of Montana
Author: MontanaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Laws, Resolutions and Memorials of the Territory of Montana Passed at the Extraordinary Session of the Fifteenth Legislative Assembly
Author: Montana TerritoryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Session laws
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
Wisconsin Session Laws
Author: WisconsinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bills, Private
Languages : en
Pages : 792
Book Description
Laws, Resolutions, and Memorials of the State of Montana
Author: MontanaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Includes extraordinary sessions.
Crippled Children's Program
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children with disabilities
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
American Indians and the Fight for Equal Voting Rights
Author: Laughlin McDonaldPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806186003
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
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.
