From Bryan Newland:
Aanii,
My name is Bryan Newland. I am a Bay Mills Ojibwe and a volunteer with the Obama 2008 campaign. This Tuesday, November 4th, is Election Day and we are making a big push to increase Native voter turnout here in Michigan to carry Senator Obama into the White House. In order to do this, we need your help.
Senator Obama has put together a comprehensive platform on Indian issues and has been endorsed by more than 100 tribal leaders across the United States, as well as Indian Country Today. Senator Obama has pledged to appoint an American Indian policy advisor to his senior White House staff to give Indian Country direct access to the President. He has voiced strong support for strengthening the nation-to-nation relationship between the United States and Indian tribes and has pledged to protect and strengthen tribal sovereignty. You can find out more about his Indian Issues Platform at: http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/firstamshome. I also encourage you to join our Facebook Group: Michigan Natives for Obama.
While the polls show Senator Obama leading in Michigan, we can’t take anything for granted. Please make sure you get out as early as possible on Tuesday to cast your ballot for Senator Obama. In addition, we are asking for a little of your time to add to the voter turnout effort. You can help prove that Michigan’s Native Voters are important in the effort to carry Michigan. Please take a couple minutes to contact 5 people in your tribal or urban Native community over the weekend and encourage them to get out to vote. You can make phone calls from your own home or dorm by downloading voter lists from: http://my.barackobama.com/modules/votercontact/login_signup.php. We encourage you to take time on Tuesday to drive elders and other family or friends in need of transportation to the polls so that they too can join in this effort. Lastly, please forward this email to your friends, and personally encourage other Michigan natives to get out and make Barack
Obama the next President of the United States. Chi Miigwetch!
Bryan T. Newland
Michigan Native Vote Coordinator
Obama for America
(517) 862-5570
Turtle Talk 
November 4, 2008 marks the day when all of America will send into office a new president. From watching the news, television and campaign debates much is at stake for the lives of all Americans.
Regardless of who gets elected into office Alaska Natives and Native Americans have to watch and see who the new president appoints into his cabinet level. It is at that level Natives are either in a battle stance or they some how get along with the new political appointees. Our voting does count and across America the presidential races are so close our voting will count this election year. Last election in Arizona the Native American vote counted by them putting into office a Democratic Governor amid the Republican Stronghold State. So elections that are close our voting numbers do count.
Across 11 states this year there are 29 Native American Candidates running for state offices. So they need your votes to get into office. In the last eight years it is difficult to research what was accomplished for Alaska Native and Native Americans especially under a warring nation, which has its budget at 43% for the war. And only 12% to reduce poverty in America.
Under this current president the appointees to the US Supreme Court one appointee was anti-Native working against Alaska Native Rights. That is the power of the president he sets the agenda to what is to happen in America and what is the national agenda for all of Indian Country? Let the candidates know at the voting polls on November 4, 2008 that we demand attention to our social and economic conditions.l