The number of Native Americans serving in public office should be higher. There should be at least seven Native Americans serving in the House and one or two more in the United States Senate.Perhaps that time is growing near. Paulette Jordan, Coeur d’Alene, is now the Democratic Party’s nominee for the US Senate in Idaho. She would be the first Native woman ever elected to that body. Indeed, across the country there at least 90 Indigenous candidates are seeking election to local, state and federal offices in some 15 states.