70 years ago, a Navajo veteran helped earn Native Americans the right to vote in New Mexico [View all]
By ANDREW OXFORD | The Santa Fe New Mexican | Published: August 3, 2018
SANTA FE, N.M. (Tribune News Service) — Miguel Trujillo Sr. had been a Marine sergeant in World War II and was in the middle of getting his master’s degree from the University of New Mexico.
But there was one thing he still couldn’t do.
Trujillo couldn’t vote.
In 1948, the state’s constitution barred American Indians living on reservations from participating in elections.
More:
https://www.stripes.com/news/70-years-ago-a-navajo-veteran-helped-earn-native-americans-the-right-to-vote-in-new-mexico-1.540901
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Fighting for the Right to Vote
NOVEMBER 7, 2016
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USMC Miguel Trujillo of Isleta Pueblo
with his daughter Josephine T. Waconda
in the late 1940s.
More:
https://www.indianpueblo.org/fighting-right-vote/
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A History of Indian Voting Rights and Why It’s Important to Vote
https://newsmaven.io/indiancountrytoday/archive/a-history-of-indian-voting-rights-and-why-it-s-important-to-vote-IQ2lTgiylkiC9GQ98IvhWA/
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