Making an effort to vote alleviates future effort, struggle

Making an effort to vote alleviates future effort, struggle

By Sterling Cosper, Legislative Affairs Manager The Hard-fought Native American Voting Rights Act is 102 years old. Use it, “The first people on this land should not be the last to vote,” Jacqueline De León of Isleta Pueblo, a senior staff attorney at the Native American Rights Fund. What is the point of voting when many states, including both Washington and Oregon, where the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation (CTUIR) traditi…