What Do Tribal Governments Do Explainer Video

What do Tribal governments do? In this video created by Native Governance Center and the Minnesota Humanities Center, you’ll learn about how Tribal governments are structured and the ways in which they serve both Native and non-Native people.

Original art by Marlena Myles (Spirit Lake Dakota & also of Mohegan and Muscogee descent)
Voiceover by Leah Lemm (Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe)
Produced by CallSign51

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