Defend Native Voting Rights

Defend Native Voting Rights

Let’s ensure fairer elections by ending voter suppression in Indian Country and elsewhere. The right to vote is sacred, and all American citizens must have a voice in our democracy.

Protect Voting Rights for People of Color

In 2021, 19 states passed 33 ordinances restricting voting, mainly affecting BIPOC communities. We have to push back — and hard. Please send a message to your U.S. senators demanding that they pass comprehensive voting rights legislation.

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Mobilizing Standing Rock to register and vote in 2018

In 2018, we combated a new voter suppression law by busing Standing Rock tribal members to get IDs and get to the voting booth.

Standing Rock the Vote!

Our 2018 Standing Rock the Vote effort included teaming with Four Directions to go door-to-door and register voters on the reservation.

160

organizers

on the streets of Standing Rock in 2018

727

Standing Rock voters

newly registered in 2018!

100%

increase

in voter turnout over previous mid-term election

Posted: November 02, 2018

North Dakota’s Racist Voter ID Law Is Already Backfiring

Daily Beast

First, a coalition of groups led by the Lakota People’s Law Project and the national Native American group Four Directions have been furiously helping people get proper IDs free of charge. According to the Associated Press, they’ve helped more than 2,000 people get them.

Posted: October 31, 2018

Thousands of Native voters in North Dakota getting free IDs

Associated Press

We're at our best in crisis," said Phyllis Young, an organizer on the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation for the Lakota People's Law Project, adding that the issue "is only making us more aware of our rights, more energized, and more likely to vote this November."