Voting in Indian Country: The View from the Trenches

by Jean Reith Schroedel

Voting in Indian Country uses conflicts over voting rights as a lens for understanding the centuries-long fight for Native self-determination.

Among the American public, there is a collective amnesia about the U.S. government's shameful policies toward the continent's original inhabitants and their descendants. Only rarely, such as during the Wounded Knee standoff in the 1970s and the recent Dakota Access Pipeline protests,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812252519
• ISBN13: 9780812252514
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"