tribal nation
Native governing body
A tribal nation is an Indigenous people recognized as having sovereign governmental authority over their members and territory.
In the United States, tribal nations maintain a government-to-government relationship with the federal government, exercising jurisdiction over reservations and tribal lands.
The term emphasizes political sovereignty rather than ethnicity: The tribal nation negotiated water rights with the state.
There are currently over 570 federally recognized tribal nations in the U.S.
- sovereignSupreme in power
- reservationAdvance arrangement to hold
- indigenousOriginating in a region
- treatyBinding pact between nations
- treaty rightsPact-secured legal entitlements
chief · elder · council · homeland · ancestry · clan · pueblo · Cherokee · Navajo · sacred · sacred grounds · territory · self-governance · powwow · casino · land · Indian reservation · ceremony
- territoriesprovince, state, region, country, colony
- ethnic communitiesethnic enclave, immigrant community, indigenous community, refugee community, minority group
- Reservationtreaty lands, treaty land, housing authority, allotment, boundary marker
- tribal governanceelders, chieftaincy, chiefs, village councils, chiefdom
- tribal landsreservations, reservation land, indigenous land, indigenous lands, treaty lands
- kinshipmother, father, sister, brother, children
tribal nationfederal government
Centralized national ruling body
state government · nation-state · sovereign state · federal state · federal authority
tribal nationcolonial power
Nation governing foreign territories
colonial government · imperial power · settler colony · multinational corporation
tribe, tribal, tribally, tribalism, tribalist, tribes, nation, national, nationally