Truth To Tell: Community Connections - White Earth Constitutional Forum Part II

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KKWE/Niijii Radio

Year:

2013

TruthToTell: Community Connections- White Earth Constitutional Forum Part II

In collaboration with production partner KKWE/Niijii Radio, TruthToTell and CivicMedia/Minnesota traveled west on August 14, 2013, to the White Earth Reservation to air/televise the seventh in our series of LIVE Community Connections forums on critical Minnesota issues. Convened at White Earth's Shooting Star Casino, panelists debated the meaning and impacts of a proposed new home rule constitution to be voted on by White Earth Nation citizens this fall, and fielded questions from members of the audience. This is a burning issue among members of the entire Minnesota Chippewa Tribe (MCT), whose current Constitution governs all Minnesota bands under its jurisdiction...

citizen education, citizen participation, citizenship criteria, community engagement, constitutional reform, constitutional reform committee, constitutional reform process, CRC, governance structure, governing system, Indian Reorganization Act (IRA), Secretary of Interior, voting

Native Nations:

White Earth Nation

Topics:

Citizenship/Membership, Constitutions, Governance, Leadership

KKWE/Niijii Radio. "Truth To Tell: Community Connections - White Earth Constitutional Forum Part II." Truth ToTell and Civic Media Minnesota (hosts: Andy Driscoll and Michelle Alimoradi). KKWE/Niijii Radio. August 14, 2013. Forum. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qt8NZM8LdnU, accessed September 6, 2013)