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Native Americans in New Mexico were among the last to gain access to voting rights.
The Indian Citizenship Act gave birthright citizenship to the land’s original inhabitants on June 2, 1924 .
Legal access to the ballot was denied under existing state constitutional provisions and statutes until 1948 in Arizona and New Mexico .
New Mexico is a test run of sorts for many new and contested provisions that are part of the state's Native American Voting Rights Act .
Native Americans have held widely divergent views about citizenship and voting.
Some view U.S. citizenship as incompatible with being Indigenous people; others see it more like dual citizenship.
A 1956 federal survey of Native voting in the Southwest found anemic participation, with no polling places set up at New Mexico pueblos.
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 spurred a new movement within tribal communities to encourage participation.
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