Sovereignty: The
Right to Self-Rule
What I learned from Model 1 was that the Federal Government
had already announced that Native Tribes had Foreign Sovereignty and the fact
that it is listed in the United States Constitution, “Congress shall regulate
commerce and enter into treaties with foreign nations and Indian Tribes” (US
Constitution) shows that the native people should be recognized as a foreign
nation when dealing with United States Law and Government. In the video, “Tribal
Sovereignty: The Right to Self-Rule” the U.S. Constitution the framers had
already recognized Native American Tribes as their own governing power. Even
after the constitution was adopted, the United States still tried to rule the
Native Americans. “European Americans generally argued that it was necessary to
either civilize or eliminate the Indians” (Sutton, 29). The United States
Government even set up Indian schools to civilianize them into the way of the
Europeans, so it appeared even then the government was unsure how to deal with
the native population. Even today the United States Supreme Court struggles
with this issue. “From the era of Chief Justice John Marshall through the time
of Justice Thurgood Marshall, the Supreme Court has struggled to define the
doctrine of American Indian tribal sovereignty” (PRYGOSKI). Even today’s
standards of each reservation as being its own government comes with limits. “In
times of war, all men, including Indians have to register. In WWI, this caused some consternation. Each registrar had to record the county name
in which the registrant registered. If
they registered on an Indian Reservation, even if the reservation was located
within a county, the reservation itself was not part of the county, as it is
considered a separate Nation” (Native Heritage Project).
Works Cited:
Native North America, Mark Q. Sutton Page 29
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