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David Goldman/AP toggle caption David Goldman/AP On the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in northwest Montana, many tribal members don't have a way to reliably get into town and vote during elections, nor do their homes have mail service to send in an absentee ballot. David Goldman/AP Renee LaPlant, an organizer with the Indigenous get-out-the-vote group Western Native Voice, is driving across the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in northwest Montana. "Glacier National Park is just right up there," she says. "But the rest of it is mostly all of the reservation....

According to a GoFundMe page set up on her family's behalf, Northern Cheyenne Tribal Councilwoman Silver Little Eagle (pictured above) was brutally attacked.

/ Renee LaPlant, an organizer with the Indigenous get-out-the-vote group Western Native Voice, is driving across the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in northwest Montana. "Glacier National Park is just right up there," she says. "But the rest of it is mostly all of the reservation. It's vast. It's huge." So huge, LaPlant says, that many tribal members don't have a way to reliably get into town and vote during elections, nor do their homes have mail service to send in an absentee ballot. Western Native Voice staffers typically collect and deliver sealed absentee ballot envelopes for thos...

Montana Tribes File Lawsuit Challenging New Voting Laws Several Montana tribal nations and legal nonprofits on Monday filed a lawsuit challenging two new laws they say disenfranchise American Indian voters. The American Indian Rights Fund and the ACLU of Montana filled the case in the Yellowstone County district court on behalf of the Blackfeet Nation, the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes, Fort Belknap Indian Community, the Northern Cheyenne Tribe and Western Native Voice. 

"I remember accepting it. I thought OK, this is the way the world is," she said.  In college, Snow needed money to pay bills, so she started registering voters with Western Native Voice. Little did she know, the experience would launch her career in politics.  Since then, Snow has worked as an organizer for Western Native Voice, she was the first Indigenous woman in Montana to be a full-time lobbyist and she served as the Native vote program director for the Montana Democratic Party.  "The experience really showed me that you don't have to come from a family of politicians or voters. Y...