70 years ago, a Navajo veteran helped earn Native Americans the right to vote in New Mexico

[Judi Lynn]

By ANDREW OXFORD | The Santa Fe New Mexican | Published: August 3, 2018

SANTA FE, N.M. (Tribune News Service) — Miguel Trujillo Sr. had been a Marine sergeant in World War II and was in the middle of getting his master’s degree from the University of New Mexico.

But there was one thing he still couldn’t do.

Trujillo couldn’t vote.

In 1948, the state’s constitution barred American Indians living on reservations from participating in elections.

More:
https://www.stripes.com/news/70-years-ago-a-navajo-veteran-helped-earn-native-americans-the-right-to-vote-in-new-mexico-1.540901

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Fighting for the Right to Vote
NOVEMBER 7, 2016

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USMC Miguel Trujillo of Isleta Pueblo
with his daughter Josephine T. Waconda
in the late 1940s.

More:
https://www.indianpueblo.org/fighting-right-vote/


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A History of Indian Voting Rights and Why It’s Important to Vote
https://newsmaven.io/indiancountrytoday/archive/a-history-of-indian-voting-rights-and-why-it-s-important-to-vote-IQ2lTgiylkiC9GQ98IvhWA/

[lapfog_1]

1. I might well be related by marriage to him

maybe... my aunt married a Trujillo on the Iselta Pueblo (not Miguel).

I've spent more than a few vacations there visiting.

Cool.

[Uncle Joe]

2. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread Judi Lynn

[Nitram]

3. These are the kinds of people who make America great.