Blackfeet Teepees

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Blackfeet delegates on Riverside Avenue camping on the median in the street. Image courtesy of Spokane Public Library, Ned M. Barnes Northwest Room Digital Collections.

This file appears in: Indian Congress

By Casey Baulne
After hundreds of years of American oppression, American Indians gained the right to vote in the land they called home since time immemorial with the passing of the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924. Native Americans, new to the political scene worked…