Constitutional Amendment on Lineal Descent

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Like many others, our Tribe is not immune from enrollment related issues. We have a long history of Constitutional Amendments. Since 1999, the membership has voted on 8 enrollment- related Constitutional Amendments.

In August 2019, the Tribe published a special issue of the Tilixam Wawa to provide insight to the membership of our enrollment related issues. Since then, we have worked closely with the membership to identify a path forward. We’ve held community meetings, tribal member workshops, brought in outside entities to research and provide a report on the Tribe’s enrollment history.

Following the latest round of meetings and workshops, the Tribe’s 2023 advisory vote showed that 65.328% of Tribal members supported moving forward with a Lineal Descendancy Constitutional Amendment. Today, we are happy to share with the membership what that constitutional amendment looks like. We’re excited to bring this forward and to begin working with the membership on moving it forward.