American living on a reservation to vote in Maine. Voting rights Alaska's Territorial Legislature provided the right to vote to Alaska Natives, in 1915, as long as they gave up their tribal customs and traditions. In 1924, Native Americans were recognized as United States citizens through the Snyder Act. However, many states started extending policies designed to disenfranchise Black voters on Native American voters. Arizona and New Mexico did not allow Native Americans to vote until 1948. Native Americans living on reservations in Maine could not vote until 1954. Utah allowed Indigenous people to vote in 1957. When the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was passed, Native Americans had better access to voting rights, though there were still unique challenges that Native people faced. Exclusion Many suffrage groups did not work on reaching out to Native American women. Some white suffragists like Carrie Chapman Catt felt that white women should get the right to vote before Native women could get equal suffrage. Anna Howard Shaw also believed that Native Americans did not deserve to vote. She spoke out against giving the vote to Native people in South Dakota during the 1890s. See also Native American civil rights Women's suffrage in the United States Women's suffrage in Alaska Women's suffrage in Hawaii References Sources Women's suffrage in the United States Native American history History of voting rights in the United States History of women's rights in the United States suffrage Native American suffragists