"Meet the trailblazing Native American leading a surge in voter activism"

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/17/native-american-voters-denise-juneau-montana-congress

If the Democrat causes an upset in November and wins Montana’s only seat in the House of Representatives, she will become the first Native American woman ever to serve in Congress.

Montana is on the 2016 Red to Blue list, a Democratic list of traditionally Republican states the party hopes to win in its bid to take the House as well as the White House.

Even if Juneau loses, however, she is surfing a wave of energy affecting a population that conventional analyses of US politics often define as ambivalent. From protests over a proposed pipeline in North Dakota being hailed as a new civil rights movement to a record number of Native American candidates running at state and federal level, passions are running high.

“It’s awesome,” Juneau said in a telephone interview. “It’s really exciting, this new surge of people becoming involved. I feel it, particularly when I’m in Indian Country and among young people wanting to work on my campaign. It’s a sea change.”

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1. denisejuneau.com

https://denisejuneau.com

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2. k&r