Native Voting Rights and Sovereignty: Recognizing Indigenous Voices in Government

Native Voting Rights and Sovereignty: Recognizing Indigenous Voices in GovernmentThere are 574 federally recognized nations with tribal sovereignty in the United States. Tribal sovereignty means that these nations must be honored as distinct political entities and treated as nations. In addition to the rights granted to them by those nations, their citizens are guaranteed civil rights as citizens of the United States, such as the right to vote, the right to use government services and public spaces, the right to education, and the

Through essays

Traci Sorell

these essays point to the possibility of actual and positive change in a world where Native women are systematically undervalued

and unapologetic

Importantly

allied with a subject of tragic consequence: the lives and fate of his Blackfeet ancestors

finding healing by directly facing the trauma that he shares with Indigenous peoples around the world

Echo is pulled into a time-travelling adventure

"We want to live as if there is no other place

Goodnight frogs croaking in the night

age-old tribulations

with his wife