White Earth Nation: Ratification of a Native Democratic Constitution Ute No one knew where Clarke

No one knew where Clarke had gone

representative of an Indigenous delegation to the United Nations in Geneva

Alone in the world and placed in a horrific boarding school

Indians were not living lightly on the land but were landscaping and manipulating their world in ways that we are only now beginning to understand

and they are wrongly accused of arson by the sheriff's son

White Earth Nation: Ratification of a Native Democratic Constitution Ute No one knew where ClarkeThe White Earth Nation of Anishinaabeg Natives ratified a new constitution in 2009, the first indigenous democratic constitution, on a reservation in Minnesota. Many Native constitutions were written by the federal government, and with little knowledge of the people and cultures. The White Earth Nation set out to create a constitution that reflected its own culture. The resulting document provides a clear Native perspective on sovereignty, independent