Location: Upper Peninsula of Michigan
Population: 40,000
Date of Constitution: 1975
Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians. 1975. "Constitution and Bylaws of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians." Sault Ste. Marie, MI.
Guests Joseph P. Kalt and Sophie Pierre explore the evidence that strong Native nations require strong foundations, which necessarily require the development of effective, internally created constitutions (whether written or unwritten). It examines the impacts a constitution has on the people it…
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…
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