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elleng

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2. And imagine this!

Reply to Wellstone ruled (Reply #1)

Thu Jan 4, 2018, 01:57 PM

Jan 2018

'It was not until 1924 that Congress granted native people the right to vote, and for generations afterward, local and state governments have blocked them from doing so, often saying that Native Americans living on reservations were not state residents.'

NOT STATE RESIDENTS! Been there forever, U.S. takes their land, calls it a State, and they're NOT STATE RESIDENTS!

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