Latest News & Releases

  • Voter Suppression Under Color of Law in a Montana County Courthouse

    Watch the YouTube video below to see unedited footage showing voter suppression at the Roosevelt County Courthouse in Montana on Friday, October 25, 2024. Later that day, courthouse workers threatened to have Four Directions Native Vote workers arrested for helping with voter registration.

  • Fort Peck Tribes Sue for Equal Voting Opportunities

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  • For Many Indigenous People, Voting Is Getting Harder 

    A century after the Indian Citizenship Act made their ancestors US citizens and acknowledged their right to vote, Indigenous Americans still face barriers to casting their ballots On June 4, Western Native Voice organizers fanned out across downtown Billings, Montana, to register voters. Wearing sky-blue T-shirts that read “I Can Help You Register to Vote,”…

  • Pentagon to review Medals of Honor awarded for Wounded Knee massacre

    Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has directed the Pentagon to review 20 Medals of Honor awarded for actions during the 1890 Wounded Knee massacre, in which the U.S. Army’s 7th Cavalry opened fire on hundreds of Native Americans, including women and children. The effort is meant to ensure no soldiers were recognized for “conduct inconsistent with the nation’s highest…

  • Fort Peck Tribal members say poll locations too far away from reservation

    BILLINGS — Fort Peck tribal members said Thursday they are planning to file a lawsuit against two northeastern Montana counties because of how far away voting polls are from the reservation.  The lawsuit — which hasn’t been filed yet — will ask Roosevelt and Valley counties to establish satellite polls on Fort Peck lands in…

  • Removing the Stain of Wounded Knee:  Members of Congress Move to Rescind Medals of Honor

    Bodies frozen in the snow, a baby with five bullet wounds, small children shot at such close range their clothes and bodies were singed with gunpowder. Army general Nelson Miles was shocked by what he found at Wounded Knee. He arrived several days after the carnage, which occurred December 29, 1890. A battle-hardened Civil War veteran, he was appalled by…

Action & Impact 2022

Four Directions is a Native-led national voting rights organization dedicated to advancing equality at the ballot box across Indian Country.

Our team is on the ground in Wisconsin and Nevada throughout early voting days and election day providing Natives on remote reservations with rides to the polls! #SKOVOTEDEN

Building communication between Tribal Nations and local/state leaders in Wisconsin.

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How our team took action to help one Nevada tribe fight against voter suppression – and win!

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Hosting meaningful discussions between Tribal Nations and local/state leaders in Georgia.

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New Mexico Congresswoman Deb Haaland talks about the NATIVE VOTE: its growing political impact and the importance of continuing that momentum in the upcoming Georgia Senate runoff election.

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Donna Brandis
Organizer

Donna Brandis Donna Brandis is Barb and OJ Semans’ granddaughter and Donna Semans’ daughter, an enrolled member of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe, or Sicangu Oyate, and a vital part of the third generation of Four Directions, Inc. She has been involved with Four Directions since she was seven years old, working for Get Out The […]

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Donna Semans
Director of Grassroots Organization

Donna Semans Donna Semans is Barb and OJ Semans’ daughter and is an enrolled member of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe, or Sicangu Oyate, and a vital part of Four Directions, Inc. As Director of Grassroots Organization, Semans ran Four Directions’ get-out-the-vote (GOTV) operation in South Dakota’s Oglala Sioux Tribe’s Pine Ridge Indian Reservation for the […]

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Oliver and Barb Semans
Co-Executive Directors

Oliver and Barb Semans Barb and Oliver (OJ) Semans, both enrolled members of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe, or Sicangu Oyate, helped form Four Directions, Inc., after leading the historic Native vote project in South Dakota’s 2002 U.S. Senate race. For that effort, the 21st Century Democrats awarded Barb and OJ the 2003 Paul Wellstone Grassroots […]



Four Directions, Inc., is a 501(c)4 organization. Contributions to Four Directions, Inc. are not tax-deductible for federal income tax purposes and are not subject to public disclosure.

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