Location: Olympic Peninsula of Washington State
Population: 600
Date of Constitution: 1980, as amended 1983, 1997, 2000, 2002, 2011, and 2012
Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe. 2012. "Constitution of the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe of Indians." Sequim, WA.
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…
For ten thousand years, a Nation of people lived and prospered on the lands now known as the Olympic Peninsula in the State of Washington. These strong people of the S'Klallam Tribes had a system of governance, engaged in commerce, managed natural and human resources, and exercised power over their…
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…
