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A Long Fight for the Vote Navajos, Utes, and the Path to Equal Voting Rights

In A Long Fight for the Vote, Daniel C. McCool offers a deeply researched and compelling account of the fight for equal voting rights in San Juan County, Utahhomeland to the Navajo and Ute peoples and a flashpoint of persistent AngloNative conflict. Centering on landmark voting rights cases that culminated in the historic election of two Navajo county commissioners, McCool situates these legal battles within a broader history of discrimination, shifting federal Indian policy, and the gradual political empowerment of Native communities across the American West. Through meticulous analysis, the book reveals how local elections became a crucible for national debates over citizenship, sovereignty, and democracy. Drawing on court records, expert testimony, and decades of engagement with voting

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