Since the pandemic first began, have been some of the hardest hit in the country. With recent data showing over from COVID-19, the Navajo Nation has than any state in the country. Meanwhile, a court decision for the tribal nation to count mail-in ballots in the weeks before the general election.
But despite the coronavirus and difficult voting conditions, the 2020 election saw record turnout by Indigenous voters in battleground states like . That鈥檚 due in part to the efforts of voting rights advocates like Allie Young, who to the voting polls鈥� on horseback.
Now, Native people and voting rights advocates are pointing towards
that helped for Joe Biden. And after an election that saw , they say by the incoming Biden administration.
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If you鈥檙e an Indigenous voter, what motivated you to go to the polls? How would you like to see the Biden administration work with Native communities?
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