Oregon 2024: Native candidates battle underrepresentation

Annessa Hartman ran for the Oregon House of Representatives in part to give Native Americans a voice in the state capital. She became their eyes as well. Hartman, who is Haudenosaunee and one of three Native members of the 60-member House, was reading a bill in early March and saw that the nine tribal nations that share geography with Oregon were excluded from the state’s observance of the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

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