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• Introduction
• Green Setting Feather's world
• Little Shell II's world
• The reservation
• The Ten-Cent Treaty
• The aftermath
• The claim
• The Constitution
• Conclusion.

In an auditorium in Belcourt, North Dakota, on a chilly October day in 1932, Robert Bruce and his fellow tribal citizens held the political fate of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians in their hands. Bruce and the others had been asked to adopt a tribal constitution, but he was unhappy with the document, as it limited tribal governmental authority. However, white authorities told the tribal nation that the proposed constitution was a necessary step in bringing a lawsuit against the federal government over a longstanding land dispute. Bruce's choice, and the choice of his fellow citizens, has shaped tribal governance on the reservation ever since that fateful day.In this book, Keith Richotte Jr. offers a critical examination of one tribal nation's decision to adopt a constitution. By asking why the citizens of Turtle Mountain voted to adopt the document despite perceived flaws, he confronts assumptions about how tribal constitutions came to be, reexamines the status of tribal governments in the present, and offers a fresh set of questions as we look to the future of governance in Native America and beyond.
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Articles supplementary, to the treaty made at Chicago, in the State of Illinois, on the 26th day of September one thousand eight and thirty-three, between George B. Porter Thomas JV Owen and William Weatherford, Commissioners on the part of the United States, of the one part, and the United Nation of Chippewa, Ottowa, and Potawatamie Indians, of the other part, concluded at the same place on the twenty-seventh day of September one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three, between the said Commissioners on the part of the said United States of the one part, and the Chiefs and Head-men of the said United Nation of Indians, residing upon upon the reservations of land situated in the Territory of Michigan, south of Grand river of the other part-- HeinOnline description

Articles of a treaty made and concluded at Brownstown, in the territory of Michigan, between William Hull, governor of said territory, superintendant of Indian affairs, and commissioner plenipotentiary of the United States of America, for concluding any treaty or treaties, which may be found necessary, with any of the Indian tribes, North West of the river Ohio, of the one part, and the Sachems, Chiefs, and Warriors of the Chippewa, Ottawa, Pottawatamie, Wyandot, and Shawanoese nations of Indians, on the other part-- HeinOnline description

Articles of a treaty made at Chicago, in the State of Illinois, on the twenty-sixth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three, between George B. Porter JV Owen and William Weatherford, Commissioners on the part of the United States of the one part, and the United Nation of Chippewa, Ottowa and Potawatamie Indians of the other part, being fully represented by the Chiefs and Head-men whose names are hereunto subscribed-which Treaty is in the following words, to wit-- HeinOnline description

Articles of a treaty made and concluded at the Indian Agency, Logansport, Indiana, between William Marshall, Commissioner on the part of United States and Mota, a chief of the Potawattamie tribe of Indians, and his band on the 17th day of December in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-four-- HeinOnline description

Articles of a Treaty, made and concluded at a camp, on Lake Max-ee-nie-kue-kee, in the State of Indiana, between William Marshall, Commissioner on the part of the United States, and Com-o-za, a Chief of the Potawattamie tribe of Indians and his band, on the fourth day of December, in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-four-- HeinOnline description

Articles of treaty, made and concluded at Potawattimie mills, in the State of Indiana, on the sixteenth day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four between William Marshall Commissioner on the part of the United States and the Chiefs, headmen, and warriors of the Potawattamis Indians-- HeinOnline description

Articles of a Treaty made and concluded at a camp on Tippecanoe river in the State of Indiana, between William Marshall, Commissioner on the part of United States and Muck Rose, a Chief of the Potawattamie tribe of Indians, and his band, on the tenth day of December, in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-four-- HeinOnline description

Articles of a treaty made and concluded at Chippewanaung-in the State of Indiana between A.C. Pepper commissioner on the part of the United States and Mo-sack, chief of the Potawattimie tribe of Indians and his band, on the twenty-second day of September in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-six-- HeinOnline description

Articles of a treaty made and concluded at Chippe-way-naung in the State of Indiana, on the twenty-third day of September in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, between Abel C. Pepper commissioner on the part of the United States, and the chiefs, warriors and headmen of the Pottawattamie Indians of the Wabash-- HeinOnline description

Articles of a treaty made and concluded at the Inidan agency, in the State of Indiana between Abel C. Pepper commissioner on the part of the United States, and Nas-waw-kee and Quash-quaw chiefs and head men of the Patawattimie tribe of Indians and their bands on the 22d day of April, 1836-- HeinOnline description

Articles of a treaty made and concluded at a camp near Yellow river in the State of Indiana, between Abel C. Pepper commissioner on the part of the United States and Pe-pin-a-waw, No-taw-kah & Mac-kah-tah-mo-ah, chiefs and headmen of the Potawattimie tribe of Indians, and their bands on the fifth ay of August in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-six-- HeinOnline description

Articles of a treaty made and concluded at the Chippewanaung in the State of Indiana, between Abel C. Pepper commissioner on the part of the United States, and To-i-sa's brother Me-mat-way and Che-quaw-ka-ko, chiefs and headmen of the Patawattimie tribe of Indians and their band on the twentieth day of September in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-six-- HeinOnline description