Goal
To equip Tribal Nations with voter ready materials and messages to encourage Native voters to register and vote.
Strategies
- Conduct outreach and engagement that builds support for Native vote efforts by way of content and resource sharing through NCPI Resources Hub.
- Offer customizable content that prioritizes Tribal communications and media platforms so that tribes and Tribal leaders can share messaging that encourages voter participation leading up to November midterms.
Included Resources and Tools
The following resources can be provided to Tribal Nations as well as Native-led nonprofits:
- Ads for Tribal newspapers
- Flyers to handout or post on bulletin boards
- Social media content and graphics
- Yard signs
- Text message copy
- Talking points for Tribal leadership
The following assets were designed as templates in Canva, allowing them to be customized to fit your voice and needs. Not sure how to access the templates? Use this step-by-step guide.
Ads for Tribal Newspapers (Printed)
This election matters. Answer the call: Protect the Vote.
When Native voters turn out, we move mountains. Vote.
Flyers
Protect the Vote. Protect Our Traditions.
Indian Country is a powerful force.
Social Media Content and Graphics
Protect our Power. Protect the Vote!
Caption: We have the power to decide elections and influence leadership at local and national levels. But we can’t win sitting on the sidelines.
We win on behalf of our people, lands, waters, and resources when we are engaged in American democracy. We must act and VOTE!
Protect our futures! Get Out the Native Vote!
Caption: November 3 is coming fast! Answer the call: VOTE like it’s tradish!
With all that is at stake from our sacred places to our ability to afford groceries and gas to the health of our elders and children, we have to show up to vote and make voting a family tradition.
Get ready to answer the call. And bring your relatives to vote too: nativevoter.org.
Yard Sign
Protect the Vote
We decide our futures.
Text Message/SMS Copy
- It takes every Tribal member to make change. Make a plan to vote today! Don’t wait until election day, November 3. Learn more at: nativevoter.org
- November 3 is coming fast! Answer the call & VOTE like it’s tradish! Bring your relatives and vote by November 3. Visit nativevoter.org to make your plan.
- We have the power to decide elections and influence how things are run at local and national levels. Your voice counts. Be ready to VOTE by November 3: nativevoter.org.
- Protect the VOTE and protect our power. November 3 is around the corner. Learn what’s on the ballot in local and national elections, and cast your vote! nativevoter.org
Talking Points For Tribal Leadership
Below are some high-level key talking points that Tribal leaders or community members can use when talking about the importance of the Native Vote during this year’s midterm elections. Click on the talking points below that best resonate with your audiences.
- Voting decides the health and future for all of Indian Country.
- Voters in Indian Country have the power to decide elections and influence policy.
- Civic power in action influences every aspect of Native life that matters for us now, and for all future generations.
- We must mobilize and educate Native voters about their rights.
Voting decides the health and future for all of Indian Country.
- As Native peoples, we vote because we know that every action we take today impacts the generations to come.
- Cultural and natural resources, treaty rights, war, the economy, Tribal sovereignty, education, healthcare, social security, and benefits for our elders and our most vulnerable relatives are all at stake in every election.
- Our Native way of life is at stake in every election.
- How do we protect our lands that are being threatened? Vote! How do we stop continued violation of our rights? Vote!
- Native people don’t have the option of just sitting back and letting others make the decisions about the well-being of our communities.
Voters in Indian Country have the power to decide elections.
The power of the Native vote is undeniable.
- When Native people show up in record numbers and raise our voices together, we have the power to change policy, strengthen sovereignty, and decide election outcomes.
- Our victories in Indian Country don’t come from sitting on the sidelines. We win on behalf of our people, lands, waters, and resources when we are engaged in American democracy. We need to vote.
There is untapped power in Indian Country.
- There are 1.2 million eligible Native voters who have not yet registered to vote.
- And over the past six elections, nearly 600,000 registered Native voters did not vote.
- Every one of those Native voters is someone’s cousin. Reaching them starts with a conversation.
Protecting our sovereignty by taking action influences every aspect of Native life that matters for us now, and for all future generations.
- Our work doesn’t end after election day.
- Every day, elected officials in local, state, and national office, make decisions about our future.
- We are leading the fight and organizing to protect Mother Earth and all of our relatives.
- Our traditional ways of working together, to help one another, makes us a powerful force when we raise our voices and work together.
- Every day brings a new threat to our ways of life. We only win when we show up to make our voices heard.
- We are powerful when we stand together to demand that elected officials uphold their promises to Indian Country.
Your personal story is the most powerful Get Out the Vote (GOTV) tool you have. Check out the How to Create Your Voter Engagement Video guide to GOTV in your own communities!