Abstract
When we set out to examine the various forms and patterns of indigenous political participation in the three polities they are connected to—tribal, state, and federal—we are stepping into a most complicated subject matter. It is complicated in large part because Indians are citizens of separate extra-constitutional nations whose members have only gradually been incorporated in various ways by various federal policies and day to day interactions with non-Indians. Tribal nations, of course, have never been constitutionally incorporated and still retain their standing as separate political bodies not beholden to either federal or state constitutions for their existence.
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2000
Publisher Statement
Copyright © 2000 Kansas Journal of Law & Public Policy. This article first appeared in The Kansas Journal of Law & Public Policy (June 2000), 732-751.
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Recommended Citation
Wilkins, David E. “An Inquiry into Indigenous Political Participation: Implications for Tribal Sovereignty.” The Kansas Journal of Law & Public Policy 9, no. 4 (June 2000), 732-751.