Jicarilla history lesson number 2

"Fifty-four years after the 15th Amendment granted all citizens, regardless of race, color, or previous condition of servitude the right to vote, the 'Citizenship Act,' made Indians citizens, thus granting them protection under the 15th Amendment. " (Montana Law Review 269-288, 270-271, 281-288.)

And even though Indians became U.S. citizens in 1924, states hindered their right to vote by creating procedures that made it difficult or impossible for them to actually cast a vote--in much the same way that other states enacted Jim Crow laws to stymie the rights of Black voters. As late as 1962, New Mexico still overtly prohibited Native Americans from voting.