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The ACLU of Montana and the Montana Racial Equity Project stand in support of members of the American Indian Caucus’s call to remove Helena’s Confederate memorial fountain.

HELENA, MT — The American Civil Liberties Union issued a “travel alert” today informing anyone planning to travel to Texas in the near future to anticipate the possible violation of their constitutional rights when stopped by law enforcement.The alert comes amid the passing of a Texas law known as SB4. The law gives a green light to police offic

2016 is an election year, and with the new year comes both opportunities and challenges to the voting rights of Montana citizens.  Indians in Montana have been routinely denied rights since Montana first became a territory.  Although many  tribes have lived in Montana for thousands of years, they were denied United States citizenship until the passage of the federal Indian Citizenship Act in 1924, less than a century ago.   Even then Indians were not welcomed as citizens, but instead were subject to a determined campaign by the State of Montana and its political subdivisions to marginalize Indians as voters.