With just three weeks until the presidential election, the urgency to mobilize Native voters has never been greater.

Native voters have shown time and again that when mobilized, they can make a decisive impact. Representing 6% of Arizona’s population, they were key in swinging the 2020 presidential election, a state President Biden won by just more than 10,000 votes.

The Indigenous Futures Survey — the largest nationally representative survey led by Native peoples, for Native peoples — reveals that more than 80% of respondents plan to vote in the upcoming presidential election. The survey also tells us about the priorities of Native peoples and what will influence their vote in 2024.

The survey found that the economy and cost of living — namely, how unemployment, inflation and chronic underfunding of government services are widening economic and racial disparities for tribal and urban Native communities — are most important to Native voters in Arizona, followed by environmental protection and tribal sovereignty.

Recent attempts to overturn the Indian Child Welfare Act and desecrate sacred places........

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