Why can’t we elect a Native American like Faith Spotted Eagle as president? | Julian Brave NoiseCat

The indigenous leader is the first to receive a vote for president in the US electoral college. This historic act of defiance offers hope for our collective future

On Monday, electoral college delegates convened in capitols across the 50 states and the District of Columbia to cast their votes for the 45th president and vice-president of the United States. Some said that the future of a global superpower, and liberalism itself, hung in the balance. Reeling from reports of Russian hackers and confounded by a president-elect viewed by many as a fascist-in-making, desperate voices from both the left and right called on the electors to vote their conscience.

Conservative defectors pleaded for delegates to select a more competent Republican like John Kasich. Liberals demanded that all electors align with the people and support Hillary Clinton, who pulled-in 2.8 million more votes than her rival. The electoral college, a system originally designed to bolster the power of slave states against the free, looked like the final fortress of progress.

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