| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 39.4

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Native Vote: American Indians, the Voting Rights Act, and the Right to Vote. By Daniel McCool, Susan M. Olson, and Jennifer L. Robinson. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xiii + 232 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, index. $80.00, cloth; $24.99, paper.)

Native Vote provides a historical overview and detailed analysis of voting rights cases brought by, and on behalf of, American Indians, in their quest to claim their rights as fully enfranchised United States citizens. Chapter one illuminates the history of American Indian disenfranchisement with well-chosen quotes contrasting the past with the present. Chapter two describes the history of the 1965 Voting Rights Act (VRA), a law passed primarily to protect the voting rights of black Americans, before examining how litigators applied the law's mandates to Indian Country. Chapter three provides a comprehensive overview of the VRA cases filed between 1965 and 2006 that sought to overturn those practices, diminishing the electoral rights of American Indian citizens in fifteen states. Of the seventy-four cases examined, Indian plaintiffs achieved some, if not significant, successes in all but four—testimony to the need for the VRA and its achievements in securing American Indian voters with meaningful electoral representation.

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