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	Tribal Membership up for Vote

bjtindle

11-3-2008 6:19 AM

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native american, election, lineage, north dakota, mandan, hidatsa, arikara, members, tribal

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/92fa3cbe-3fbf-469e-b4e5-241e83c06555/9DF0FC4C-58D0-4F98-B207-592543122D49/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2008/11/03/news/state/33-tribal.txt" href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2008/11/03/news/state/33-tribal.txt" style="font-size: 11px;">www.billingsgazette.net</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2008/11/03/news/state/33-tribal.txt"><DIV>
MISSOULA - As Native people, we vote on issues most people would not imagine, such as determining enrollment criteria for tribal citizenship one of the most contentious issues facing our communities today.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2008/11/03/news/state/33-tribal.txt"><DIV>Tribal enrollment will be on the Tuesday ballot when citizens of the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation in North Dakota go to the polls. Tribal members will be asked to choose enrollment criteria based on either "blood quantum" or "lineal descendancy."</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2008/11/03/news/state/33-tribal.txt"><DIV>Most tribes use "blood quantum" criteria, meaning tribal citizens must meet a required blood fraction of at least one-fourth. But as tribal citizens intermarry outside the tribe, it's becoming more difficult to meet current blood quantum requirements. Many tribes are now considering switching to lineal descendancy as the determining factor for citizenship.</DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/9DF0FC4C-58D0-4F98-B207-592543122D49/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>