But I also show how this history and bringing together the diversity of constitutional designs and purposes across Indian Country makes us rethink Native peoples’ impact on federal Indian law doctrine, what constitutions deserve attention in U.S. history, and what the standard features of…

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American constitutionalism are. Ultimately, I argue that tribal constitutions serve as a prism that refracts a range of possibilities for what constitutions can look like and be in the U.S. and in a post-colonial global legal order.
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The article is long and packed full of things, but I’m hoping that this serves as the foundation for a career’s worth of research and scholarship and inspires others to pay attention to Native nations’ constitutions. It’s the culmination of years of research in archives, discussions with legal…
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Congratulations, fantastic!
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