Allie Young, 34, started the Ride to the Polls campaign in 2020 to register new voters in person and online
Allie Young, a Diné grassroots organizer, started the Ride to the Polls campaign in 2020 to engage young Diné voters.Allie Young, a Diné grassroots organizer, started the Ride to the Polls campaign in 2020 to engage young Diné voters.
Native American turnout is especially critical in the upcoming election, when tribal sovereignty could be threatened by the conservative blueprint, which states that fossil fuel drilling should be facilitated on tribal lands. Political representation that brings needed resources into Native communities is particularly important on tribal lands, whereof Arizona to Democrat during the 2020 election.
“Our nation and many tribal nations across the country were devastated by the onset of Covid-19 because our system is being chronically underfunded,” said Young, “which revealed to the rest of the world what we already know: that the government is not honoring our treaty, which says that we are to receive good healthcare and education.
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