Teepee on Riverside Avenue

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Teepee on Riverside Avenue

Teepees were set up all over the city in odd and public places to create photo opportunities for newspapers. Image courtesy of Spokane Public Library, Ned M. Barnes Northwest Room Digital Collections.

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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…