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Silver Little Eagle is an elected council member of the Northern Cheyenne Tribe.
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A 24-year-old councilwoman for the Northern Cheyenne Tribe in Montana was beaten, robbed and left for dead last week, according to the local police department and her family members.
Silver Little Eagle was transported to a medical facility after officers were dispatched to the Crowne Plaza Hotel on the morning of May 16 in response to reports of an assault of a woman. Little Eagle suffered injuries, which her family said were severe, and her car and other personal belongings were missing
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On the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in northwest Montana, many tribal members don t have a way to reliably get into town and vote during elections, nor do their homes have mail service to send in an absentee ballot. David Goldman/AP
Renee LaPlant, an organizer with the Indigenous get-out-the-vote group Western Native Voice, is driving across the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in northwest Montana. Glacier National Park is just right up there, she says. But the rest of it is mostly all of the reservation. It s vast. It s huge.
So huge, LaPlant says, that many tribal members don t have a way to reliably get into town and vote during elections, nor do their homes have mail service to send in an absentee ballot.
According to a GoFundMe page set up on her family's behalf, Northern Cheyenne Tribal Councilwoman Silver Little Eagle (pictured above) was brutally attacked.
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Renee LaPlant, an organizer with the Indigenous get-out-the-vote group Western Native Voice, is driving across the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in northwest Montana. Glacier National Park is just right up there, she says. But the rest of it is mostly all of the reservation. It s vast. It s huge.
So huge, LaPlant says, that many tribal members don t have a way to reliably get into town and vote during elections, nor do their homes have mail service to send in an absentee ballot.
Western Native Voice staffers typically collect and deliver sealed absentee ballot envelopes for those residents, but a new Montana law prohibits anyone who receives a monetary benefit from doing so.