Building Indigenous and rural voting power.
2023 Events
On-going Firekeepers’ Training - our June training in Winslow covered voter registration, elections, and community organizing. Stay tuned for our next Firekeepers event!
Weekly and monthly outreach events: fleamarkets, public spaces, and local meetings.
Oral Histories Project - interview and record long time Indigenous organizers/matriarchs and create a tool-kit to spotlight effective and culturally relevant grassroots organizing strategies and stories from rural and tribal communities. We have four organizers recorded to date.
In partnership with Generation Votes-GenVotes - we identify, train, and engage Native youth (16-24 years old) to increase civic engagement. Gen Votes has already established significant inroads with Arizona’s Secretary of State Office to focus on college and younger voter engagement. We will connect Native youth to their Leadership Fellowship.
Indigenous Rural Action Summit - July 22, 2023 in Kayenta, AZ, Navajo Nation; this is a partnership with Indivisible Arizona and Save our Schools. More than fifty local residents attended to learn how to organize their own communities.
Our focus
Arizona Native Vote (ANV) is non-partisan 501(c)(3) dedicated to building tribal and rural political power. We do this by working with community members to increase voter registration and civic engagement. Our team is building a bench of local year-round community organizers and leaders that work together to increase civic engagement by educating their rural and tribal communities about voter registration, elections, government, and voting rights.
We center voters and communities through embedded community service and by promoting local community knowledge of how engaging in elections at all levels of government - tribal, county, state, and federal - can impact their everyday lives;
We provide culturally appropriate voter registration, electoral and civic education, and election information;
We hire local Indigenous and rural organizers to register their families and communities to vote, assist with voter identification, and engage residents in northeastern Arizona counties with a concentration on the sovereign lands of the Navajo Nation, White Mountain Apache Tribe, San Carlos Apache Tribe, and Hopi Tribe;
Our field organizers work to expand year-round voter registration and education efforts through our Firekeepers program, which supports local matriarchs and students in tribal and rural communities, including tribal border towns with high Native populations.
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Arizona Native Vote is 501(c)(3) an independent grassroots organization formed to advance educational, charitable, and community goals by increasing civic engagement and election participation in tribal and rural communities.