In January Gabe Galanda delivered a lecture at Harvard University’s Kennedy School titled, “Issues in Tribal Citizenship: Who's the 'Self' in Self-Governance?" Gabe will reprise that lecture on March 16 for the Saginaw Chippewa Disenrollment Clinic jointly run by Yale Law School and Cornell Law School.
Gabe addressed how the transmutation of Indigenous kinship societies and members into “nations” and “citizens,” as matters of federal law and policy since the late eighteenth century, contributes to Indigenous citizenship and identity crises for a great many Indigenous nations today. . . .
Gabe urged that traditional Indigenous kinship principles be infused into modern Indigenous nationhood citizenship laws and practices, including constitutions and membership ordinances.
Gabriel S. Galanda is the Managing Lawyer of Galanda Broadman, PLLC, an Indigenous rights law firm. He belongs to the Round Valley Indian Tribes, descending from the Nomlaki and Concow Peoples.
