Fora Green is seated at her polling station while her cousin Anne Sam and Sam’s granddaughter, Robin Eagle, witness history.

RENO, Nev. – Fora Green was born in 1917, which was well before Native Americans were granted the right to vote in the United States elections via the Indian Citizen Act of 1924. She recently was able to cast her ballot on her aboriginal homeland.

This historic moment comes just weeks after a Nevada Federal Court said that the Pyramid Lake and Walker River Paiute tribes should have early in-person voting as well as Election Day voting on the reservation. Natives can now vote on-site in Nixon and Schurz, their respective tribal capitals.

On Oct. 8 in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, the Honorable Judge Miranda Du sided with the Tribes in the lawsuit, Sanchez vs Cegavske, which had denied tribal citizens an equal right to vote under the Voting Rights Act of 1965.