Oneida Nation of Wisconsin

Tribal Governments Come In Many Forms

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When the U.S. and Canadian governments suggest and support Western-style governments for indigenous nations, they are trying to improve Native government and make it more compatible with national government. Indigenous nations have diverse political arrangements and forms of government. When adapting to present-day nation states and market economies, if possible, indigenous nations will make political changes that express their historical political and cultural relations...

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Champagne, Duane. "Tribal Governments Come In Many Forms." Indian Country Today Media Network. June 23, 2015. Article. (https://indiancountrymedianetwork.com/history/events/tribal-governments..., accessed June 24, 2015)

Oneidas want locally produced food on local tables

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The Oneida Tribe of Indians’ foray into establishing a food hub in their community is proving to be so successful that they’d like to see it spread throughout the county. Products that are grown and processed on Oneida land have been feeding the tribe’s elementary students and elderly for some time now, and the tribe has been making a push to make them available for retail sale to the public since December, when the Oneida Market opened in a wing of the Oneida One Stop on Packerland Drive...

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"Oneidas want locally produced food on local tables." The Journal. May 24, 2013. Article. (http://www.journal-news.net/life/home-and-garden/2013/05/oneida-tribe-wants.., accessed January 9, 2017)

Successful Tribes Are Reshaping Governance

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The Daily Yonder
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American Indian communities are often offered up as the gold standard of dysfunction in America. With our high rates of entrenched poverty, we top the lists of addiction, suicide and other social ills. It’s platitude that, frankly, gets tiring to hear. We in the media like to describe the best and the worst. Admittedly, it does make for easier headline writing and more exciting copy. Unfortunately, this love of drama often overlooks the real story, especially in Indian Country, where revolutions tend to grow quietly...

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Pember, Mary Annette. "Successful Tribes Are Reshaping Governance." Daily Yonder, May 10, 2011. (http://www.dailyyonder.com/successful-tribes-are-recrafting-government/2..., accessed January 22, 2024)

Tribal Enrollment

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The Newberry
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Tribes have the right to determine their own membership. These criteria for enrollment vary from tribe to tribe. In the Midwest, the criteria are based on descendancy, that is, descent from an individual on a particular roll, as well as, in some cases, blood quantum and/or residency of the applicant or his/her parents. Most tribes also have constitutional provisions for adoption of members. Individuals who are enrolled in a particular tribe have rights that include hunting, fishing, and gathering on tribal land (or in some cases off-reservation), as well as per capita payments if the tribe distributes income from court cases or businesses. Other benefits include preferential hiring for tribal jobs, entitlement to certain services, the right to vote and run for tribal office, use of tribal land, and preferential selection for tribal housing.

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The Newberry. "Tribal Enrollment." Indians of the Midwest. McNickle Center at the Newberry Library. Chicago, Illinois. Video. (http://publications.newberry.org/indiansofthemidwest/identities/legal-id..., accessed October 30, 2013)

Traditional Foods in Native America

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Commissioned by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Native Diabetes Wellness Program (NDWP), this report highlights traditional foods programs in six culturally and geographically diverse American Indian and Alaska Native communities. For decades, American Indian and Alaska Native communities have been reclaiming traditional foods and practices as an integral part of the Indigenous food sovereignty movement, which embraces identity and history, tribal sovereignty, traditional ways and cultural practices to address health.

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Cooper, Vanessa. Traditional Foods in Native America. American Indian Institute. University of Oklahoma. Norman, Oklahoma. 2013. Paper. (https://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/ndwp/pdf/part-i---traditional-foods-in-native-america-april-21.pdf, accessed February 15, 2024)

Oneida Tribe of Indians of Wisconsin: Food Sovereignty, Safe Water, and Tribal Law

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An example of a Native American community working to achieve food sovereignty not only with physical nutrients but also with social elements is the Oneida Tribe of Indians of Wisconsin. This article analyzes the strengths of the Oneida Tribe's approach to preserving water quality and fishing habitats.

Tribal governments face a variety of challenges in developing programs to protect access to healthy food and clean water. However, the Oneida Tribe’s struggles and successes will aid other tribes in creating their own culturally-relevant tribal scheme to improve their food security.

The Oneida people have used tribal ordinances to protect their food supply and drinking water. Tribal ordinances are a straightforward approach because they can be implemented by a tribe’s authority and do not rely on federal or state approval. Other approaches such as creating a tribal regulatory agency are possible, but more complex to implement...

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Vesely, Rachel M. "Oneida Tribe of Indians of Wisconsin: Food Sovereignty, Safe Water, and Tribal Law." William Mitchell College of Law. Saint Paul, Minnesota. January 2014. Paper. (http://www.northeastern.edu/law/pdfs/academics/phrge-vesely.pdf, accessed January 24, 2014)

What is Sustain Oneida?

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The population of the Oneida Tribe of Indians of Wisconsin will probably decline within the next 10 years. The Tribe currently faces a diminishing population with an enrollment criteria of 1/4 Oneida blood...

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Oneida Trust and Enrollment Committee. "What is Sustain Oneida?" Oneida Tribe of Indians of Wisconsin. Oneida, Wisconsin. May 30, 2013. Article. (https://oneida-nsn.gov/dl-file.php?file=2016/03/Article-1-Sustain-Oneida.pdf, accessed November 6, 2013)

What is Blood Quantum?

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This article will explore the history of using blood quantum to categorize American Indian identity. The measuring of blood and the concept of 'Indianness' is a complex and difficult subject...

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Oneida Trust and Enrollment Committee. "What is Blood Quantum?" Oneida Tribe of Indians of Wisconsin. Oneida, Wisconsin. July 27, 2013. Article. (https://oneida-nsn.gov/dl-file.php?file=2016/03/Article-2-Blood-Quantum.pdf, accessed November 6, 2013)

Exercising Sovereignty and Expanding Economic Opportunity Through Tribal Land Management

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While the United States faces one of the most significant housing crises in the nation’s history, many forget that Indian housing has been in crisis for generations. This report seeks to take some important steps toward a future where safe, affordable, and decent housing is available to Native people in numbers sufficient to meet the housing needs that exist in Indian country today.

This study provides first-of-its-kind analysis of a critical barrier to homeownership on Indian lands. It analyzes the success of tribes that have taken responsibility (in whole or in part) for administering the land title process on tribal lands. It also addresses the challenges those tribes have faced...

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Edwards, Karen, Peter Morris, and Sharon Redthunder. "Exercising Sovereignty and Expanding Economic Opportunity Through Tribal Land Management." The First Nations Development Institute and The NCAI Policy Research Center. Washington, D.C. 2009. Report. (http://www.issuelab.org/resource/exercising_sovereignty..., accessed April 11, 2023)