Mary Klann

Mary Klann is a lecturer in U.S. and Native American History at University of California, San Diego and San Diego Miramar College. She is currently working on her first book, Wardship and the Welfare State: Native Americans and the Formation of First-Class Citizenship in Mid-Twentieth-Century America, under contract with University of Nebraska Press.

Stories from this author

Part of the Crow reservation is in Montana's Big Horn County, but the at-large election system meant that the first Crow county commissioner wasn't elected until 1986.

To Make Native Votes Count, Janine Windy Boy Sued the Government

‘Windy Boy v. Big Horn County’ helped ensure the Crow and Northern Cheyenne were represented, but the long struggle for Native voting rights continues