tribal council

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Native American history and self-government

  • Navajo Supreme Court justices
    In Native American: Reorganization

    …had for many years sponsored tribal councils. These councils had functioned without federal sanction, although their members had represented tribal interests in various ways, such as leading delegations to Washington, D.C., to protest allotment. Reorganization gave tribes the opportunity to formalize these and other indigenous institutions. Tribal governments soon initiated…

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