Northwestern University's tribal constitution project shows constitutions’ origins, citizenship, and rights in the United States.
Beth Redbird took to sociology wanting to make societies better. While working in the areas of affordable housing development and anti-poverty programs, Redbird learned the power of data.
“Constitutions are one of the most significant components of tribal sovereignty,” she said. “For better or worse, they determine the structure of a tribal government. They allow access to self-determination. But they’re also one of the primary ways that a tribe asserts its sovereignty. These constitutions are a direct indication of how nations seek to control their own affairs, and they articulate how a tribe sees itself as a people and as a nation.
“Native studies is vastly undertaught in public schools, and most schools omit discussions of tribes as nation and modern tribal issues altogether,” Redbird said. “That omits not only the entire history of the United States with Native peoples, but it omits the contributions of Native peoples to modern American society and to the world. One of the goals of the Constitution Project is to help people understand that tribal governments still exist.
“Legal documents … keep us alive,” she said. “We have treaties and constitutions that have been approved by the federal government. We look at them all, they’re going to say that the tribe is a corporation, and members really are not given that much power in terms of the governance of the tribe itself. Tribes always have had things that they needed to do for their people and their land for survival.
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