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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 of agreement concluded at Washington, D. C., on the twenty- seventh day of February, 1867, between the United States, represented by Lewis G. Bogy, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, W. H. Watson, special commissioner, Thos. Murphy, supt. of Indian affairs for Kansas, and Luther R. Palmer, U.S. Indian agent, duly authorized, and the Pottawatomie tribe of Indians, represented by their chiefs, braves, and head-men, to wit: Mazhee, Mianco, Shawgwe, B. H. Bertrand, J. N. Bourassa, M. B. Beaubien, L. H. Ogee, and G. L. Young-- HeinOnline description

Articles of a treaty made and concluded at the agency on the Kansas River on the fifteenth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, by and between Wm. W Ross, commissioner on the part of the United States, and the under signed chiefs, braves, and head-men of the Pottawatomie Nation, on behalf of said nation-- HeinOnline description

Articles of a treaty made and concluded at the Agency on the Missouri River near Council Bluffs, on the fifth day of June, and at Pottawatomie Creek, near the Osage River south and west of the State of Missouri, on the seventeenth day of the same month, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-six, between T. P Andrews, Thomas H. Harvey, and Gideon C. Matlock, commissioners on the part of the Pottowautomie, Chippewas, and Ottowas Indians on the other part-- HeinOnline description

Articles of a treaty concluded in the city of Washington on the eleventh day of February eighteen hundred and thirty-seven between John T Douglass, commissioner on the part of the United States and Cheechaw-kose, Ash-kum Wee-saw or Louison, Muck-kose and Qui-qui-to, chiefs of the Potawatomie tribe of Indians-- 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