“The Indian nations have always been considered as distinct, independent, political communities retaining their original natural rights as the undisputed possessors of the soil from time immemorial.”  – Worcester v. Georgia(1832). “There is little or no pure aboriginal blood among these people, who partake of the African race with which they are largely mixed.”  – […]

I believe that sovereignty within tribal context is a double-edged sword. As Indigenous people, we have lived on this continent for thousands upon thousands of years, always subsisting within a tight-knit community with people who have roles and jobs; however, after our communities were split apart through colonization, we were given the scraps of what […]