Fort Yuma Fingerprint Voter Roll Ca.

Fort Yuma Fingerprint Voter Roll Ca.

California
Indigenous Peoples
Reservation
Government
Voting Rights

The below source is part of a larger list which displays handwritten names of those indigenous peoples who belonged to the Fort Yuma Indian Reservation. The Fort Yuma Reservation boarders the states of California and Baja California, Arizona and Mexico. The source presents the names and finger prints of the voters who voted in one of the elections between 1934- 1936. However, not all voters had their fingerprints taken. The voter roll demonstrates the efforts of Native Californians in establishing their own tribal government which was enabled under the wheeler- Howard Act 1934. This act acknowledged the need to decrease government control over Native American tribes and gave them the ability to increase Indian self- government.

Fort Yuma Indian Reservation, California.

Docs Teach, Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs

https://www.docsteach.org/documents/document/fort-yuma-voter-roll

1934-6

Ellen Daly

Public Domain, Free of Known Copyright Restrictions

English

Textual - handwritten

20th century - California