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Honor tribal sovereignty through enforceable treaty ledgers, early consultation, direct self-government funding, tribal data authority, and fast remedies when the United States breaks its commitments.
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Congress should require a public Treaty Performance Ledger, codify a government-wide consultation floor, expand predictable tribal self-government agreements, recognize tribal authority over tribal data, and create rapid remedies for consultation, funding, and jurisdiction failures. Federal agencies should assign every material duty to a named official and publish whether it was performed.
The narrow claim is that a sovereign government must perform the commitments it made to another sovereign and provide a remedy for breach. Tribal citizenship and treaty rights arise from political and legal relationships. They cannot be administered as discretionary racial preferences. Equal dignity requires the United States to respect tribal citizens as people and tribal nations as governments, each in the proper legal capacity.
Privacy, Security, and Trust is primary because treaty performance, jurisdiction, consultation, and data governance determine whether federal power can be trusted. Inclusive Growth and Economic Development requires direct resources and local authority to build durable capacity. Access to Information and Connectivity supports transparent ledgers and interoperable services under tribal control. Answerable power governs the issue: the United States owes a known duty, responsible actor, review, and remedy.
The 2024 Democratic platform expressly supports tribal sovereignty, self-government, treaty and trust responsibilities, consultation, mandatory Indian Health Service funding, public safety, and co-stewardship. The 2024 Republican platform does not state a tribal sovereignty or treaty program. The Innovation Party converts general recognition into an operational contract: a public ledger for each duty, consultation with a decision record, direct administration, tribal data authority, and a timed remedy for breach. The distinction is enforceability.
Overlapping federal, state, and tribal jurisdiction can delay infrastructure, complicate criminal cases, and create uncertainty for residents and businesses. Some consultation demands may exceed the authority a treaty or statute grants. The answer is a public jurisdiction map, early issue framing, decision-capable consultation, and rapid adjudication. The proposal requires every actor to identify the source and limit of claimed authority. Erasing one government from the process would reward the strongest institution for coordination failures it helped create. The position therefore holds.
Federal agencies must fund specialists, modernize records, and surrender some administrative control to direct tribal governance. States, developers, and resource users may carry delay or lose a preferred project design. Tribal governments assume stronger audit, service, and data-security duties when they administer consolidated funds. These burdens are justified by treaty performance and by the lower long-run cost of resolving conflicts before money is spent and harm becomes irreversible.
CIVIC-04 governs individual equal protection; this issue keeps tribal political status analytically
separate. CIVIC-06 applies the Indian Child Welfare Act within family-integrity rules. ENV-05 and
RURAL-02 must recognize treaty, subsistence, land, and resource authority in environmental and food
systems. PRIV-03, PRIV-05, and GOV-07 support usable public records and interoperable services;
GOV-10 adds tribal control over the data and authority those systems carry.
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