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Other| January 01 2023 In This Issue Utah Historical Quarterly (2023) 91 (1): 3. https://doi.org/10.5406/26428652.91.1.06 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation In This Issue. Utah Historical Quarterly 1 January 2023; 91 (1): 3. doi: https://doi.org/10.5406/26428652.91.1.06 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveUniversity of Illinois PressUtah Historical Quarterly Search Advanced Search In 1957 the Utah state legislature moved to grant universal suffrage to American Indians in the state. The move overturned a Utah Supreme Court decision handed down the previous year denying the vote to individuals living on American Indian reservations. As Kyler Wakefield explains in the lead article, the long wait for Native people in Utah to achieve full voting status has extended well beyond the events of 1956 and 1957. Nineteenth-century federal American Indian policy known as allotment and assimilation, as well as the later policy of termination, provides the necessary frame to understand how sovereign tribal peoples with unique status in the American political system struggled for so long to secure the vote. Guiding readers through a sweep of this history, this piece powerfully details the struggle of American Indians in Utah to enjoy the full rights of citizenship and suffrage. Wakefield ends with the recent history of... You do not currently have access to this content.