Other tribes, including Standing Rock, started last week. Vice Chairman Ira Taken Alive said the response to get updated IDs has been overwhelming both in North and South Dakota -- the Standing Rock reservation covers area in both states.

More than 250 people have signed up for free IDs since the tribe started printing them, he said. The members feel empowered to have their voices heard in the election, especially since Standing Rock has members who are first-generation voters, he said.

“American Indians weren’t granted American citizenship until 1924,” he said, adding some states didn’t grant its tribal members the right to vote until the 1940s.

Standing Rock has set up a GoFundMe account to help pay for the cost of purchasing ID cards, providing free transportation for tribal members and filing voting information paperwork. As of Thursday, the page had raised more than $8,200.

The Three Affiliated Tribes on the Fort Berthold reservation got a head start in getting residents updated addresses, said Sevant Taft, the enrollment director for the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation. He started the move to use residential addresses on tribal IDs about a year and a half ago for the reservation.

“We were kind of ahead of the game on that one,” he said.