Thursday, April 30, 2009

What Would Grand Ronde Do?

In reading the story on the following link, I couldn't help but wonder how we in Grand Ronde would handle such a situation. I remember reading about the near-violent ousting of a Tribal leader in Oklahoma over ten years ago, and that got me thinking about how our laws and Constitution are crafted to handle government meltdowns. I am not sure if they do. That is one of the flaws of the level of sovereignty tribes have been given--what higher authority do they appeal to when laws are being broken and or circumvented by the very people charged with enforcing them?

http://www.reznetnews.org/article/little-shell-elections-set-may-9-30870

To view the story on the Oklahoma Tribal leader, check out this one:

http://www.nytimes.com/1997/07/06/us/cherokee-nation-facing-a-crisis-involving-its-tribal-constitution.html

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