In honor of Native American Heritage Month, the Law Library proudly present 100 Years After the Indian Citizenship Act: The Continuing Struggle to Guarantee Voting Rights to Native Americans. This traveling exhibit by the ABA offers a compelling journey through the legal milestones, setbacks, and advocacy efforts that shaped Native American voting rights, both before and after the 1924 Act. Attendees will gain a unique perspective on how Native American leaders and legal activists have tirelessly worked to secure an essential democratic right—voting—and how these struggles continue to shape the legal landscape today. Our remote guest speaker will be Torey Dolan.
Torey Dolan is a William H. Hastie Fellow at the University of Wisconsin Law School. Her scholarship focuses on Tribal Nations, Democracy, and American Indian self-determination and political actualization in the intersections of Federal Indian Law and Election Law. She has co-authored a piece for the Boston University Law Review, has a piece on Indian Citizenship and the Indian Franchise in the University of Idaho Law Review, and has a piece on voting by mail in Indian Country in the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review.
Prior to receiving the Hastie Fellowship, Dolan was a Native Vote Fellow with the Arizona State University Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law Indian Legal Clinic where she helped lead the Arizona Native Vote Election Protection Project through the 2020 and 2022 election cycles. She has assisted in litigation on matters pertaining to Tribal sovereignty, the Voting Rights Act, and state election law before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, the Federal District Court of Arizona, and the Superior Court of Apache and Pinal Counties in Arizona.
Dolan received her J.D from the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law along with a certificate in Federal Indian Law. She received her B.A. from the University of California at Davis. She is an enrolled citizen of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma.
Total CLE Hours: 1.0 (0.25 Ethics) Accredited by the State Bar of Texas through October 31, 2025.
Cost: Free
Where: Hybrid presentation (in-person and remote via GoToWebinar)