What is tribal sovereignty?

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🗓️ 13 July 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Most Americans take their sovereignty for granted - the nation’s right to make its own laws and govern its own people. The same rights we recognize in other sovereign nations, with one glaring exception — the Native nations and tribes who were here first. For Native Americans, sovereignty is not some abstract idea. It’s an ongoing, daily struggle.

Original Air Date: July 13, 2024

Interviews In This Hour:
The battle over tribal rights in Bad River — Quannah ChasingHorse’s two worlds – Native activist and supermodel — Are Indian casinos the key to tribal sovereignty? — No more Native American 'trauma porn'

Guests:
Mary Mazzio, Quannah ChasingHorse, Steven Andrew Light, David Treuer

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Categories: tribal sovereignty, sovereignty, native american, land, land back

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0:00.0	Hey TT book listeners, it's Anne.
0:11.4	You know, every year on the 4th of July, Americans celebrate something most of us take for granted.
0:17.7	National sovereignty. Our nation's right to make its own laws and govern its own people.
0:23.9	Those are the same rights we recognize in other sovereign nations, with one glaring exception.
0:30.2	The native nations and tribes who were here on this land first.
0:34.9	People with thousands of years of history here and fundamentally different ideas about
0:39.7	whether land can even be owned. For Native Americans, sovereignty is not some abstract idea to
0:47.1	celebrate once a year. It's an ongoing daily struggle. That's what we'll talk about today.
0:53.2	After this.
0:57.0	From WPR.
1:06.0	It's to the best of our knowledge, I'm Anne Strange Champs.
1:13.6	We're going to start today's show with a story that may sound familiar.
1:21.6	A story about an oil pipeline on native land and a small tribe up against a major corporation.
1:30.7	But before we do that, we need to go for a walk.
1:35.9	Way up in northern Wisconsin, to the home of the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa,
1:42.3	a tribe of the Ojibway, where early one morning, Mike Wiggins,
1:46.6	the former chairman of the Bad River Band, took a visiting film director for a walk along the shore.
1:56.3	We stopped just at the mouth of Lake Superior where it meets the Bad River and get out on a beach.
2:01.5	And I looked down and I see these beautiful stones.
2:04.6	Oh.
2:05.9	What do I do?
2:09.4	This is Mary Mazio, the director of the documentary Bad River.
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