Benally rejected voting as a form of consent to be governed. Voting, he reasoned, is maintaining our own colonization.
But other Natives in political spaces question the assumption that voting is an expression of consent, viewing it instead as a tactic.
https://ndncollective.org/voting-like-a-radical-and-honoring-the-complexities-of-organizing-for-justice/
Toastie
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