Location: In Yamhill and Polk Counties, Oregon
Population: 5200
Date of Constitution: 2002
Key Facts: Terminated in 1956; restored in 1983
Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde. 1984. "Constitution of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde Community of Oregon." Grand Ronde, OR.
The Intergovernmental Affairs Department has achieved positive intergovernmental relationships with federal, state, and local governments by pursuing a five-pronged strategy of communication, education, cooperation, contributions, and presence. Since the Department’s creation, the Tribe has raised…
Erma Vizenor is not exactly a revolutionary. But like America’s founders, she’s on a mission to ratify a new constitution in her homeland – the White Earth tribal nation. Most Americans don’t realize that tribes have their own constitutions, which set down rules for everything from tribal…
More than 565 Indigenous tribal governments exercise extensive sovereign and political powers within the United States today. Only about 230 of the native communities that created these governments, however, have chosen to adopt written constitutions to define and control the political powers of…
