The Oglala Sioux Nation and a nonpartisan civil rights group formed at the request of President John Kennedy have filed a voting-rights lawsuit on behalf of voters from the tribe’s Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. “Our civil rights are being violated,” said Tom Poor Bear, Oglala Sioux vice president and lead plaintiff. The federal suit,Poor Bear v. The County of Jackson,cites the Voting Rights Act and the Fourteenth Amendment. [Read more here.]
Source: Stephanie Woodard, Indian Country Today Media Network; 9.25.14
