Comparative Tribal Constitutionalism: Membership Governance In Australia, Canada, New Zealand, ...

Comparative Tribal Constitutionalism: Membership Governance In Australia, Canada, New Zealand, And The United States Kirsty Gover, 2010   In the “self-governance era” of indigenous-state relations, there is a growing interest in the first-order question of tribal governance: who are the members of recognized tribes, and how are they chosen? Tribal constitutions contain formal tribal membership criteria but are not ordinarily in the public domain. This article presents findings from a study...

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