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Timely and urgent, Jean Reith Schroedel's "Voting in Indian Country" is a somber reminder of the ways in which voting rights have always been denied to racial and ethnic minorities in America. From detailed court cases to an ethnographic survey to interviews with grassroots civil rights activists, "Voting in Indian Country" traces the history of voting rights civil cases for Native people since the 1800s to the modern day era. Unfortunately, there is not as much progress as anyone would think, given the rampant use of voter suppression techniques like gerrymandering, closing vital poll stations, requiring certain IDs with addresses when most reservations don't have physical addresses, and not providing translation services when many Indian folk on reservations feel comfortable in their native language. Strangely horrific to think about in the context that we are sitting on native land, most likely unceded, and exploiting resources from fertile reservation lands daily. Though I greatly enjoyed the read, I wish that the publisher/author would have mixed in the sections more evenly as some of the historical sections became quite dry and it felt like almost three separate books instead of one cohesive message.