TRIBAL CITIZEN PARTICIPATION IN STATE AND NATIONAL POLITICS: WELCOME WAGON OR TROJAN HORSE?

awyers have expended much paper and ink learnedly struggling to discover some elegant and hitherto obscure common denominator among the courts' products.Like medieval theologians, they avoid confrontation with their system's fatal paradoxes by immersing their thoughts in trivial comparisons and nice distinctions."1 "The notion that the right to vote and other manifestations of citizenship might reflect defeat for a group rather than victory is not one that many of us are likely to immediately realize, but it is one that American Indian history forces us all to consider."In the 1760s and 1770s, British Parliament passed laws requiring American colonists to pay taxes on everything from playing cards to newspapers to tea.3 Parliament also required the colonists to house the British soldiers sent to enforce these taxes.4 The vast majority of colonists neither consented to nor had a hand in drafting these laws, 1.