Tribal IDs for Descendants in the Age of Trump’s ICE

Tribal IDs for descendants in the age of Trump’s ICE

Legal experts weigh in on how Native nations can support their citizens and descendants in the face of increasingly violent encounters with immigration agents.

Tribal IDs for Descendants in the Age of Trump’s ICE - Underscore Native News

This article is part of an ongoing series of stories by ICT examining the complicated issues of Indigenous identity. Native nations have stepped up to provide their tribal citizens with proper documentation through tribal ID pop-ups with the escalating immigration raids and more reports of Native people being questioned, detained or arrested. However, it has many Native people asking if blood quantum should be a tribal citizenship criteria, as m…