Proposed changes to tribal constitution.

Tribal government is an area in which I was taught that we never concern ourselves with concerns such as these because we have our own way in which tribal concerns are addressed and the form in which the federal government is trying to get us to become a part of will effect the ways in which the Hopi people have governed themselves for years. If the Hopi people consider themselves traditional why are they trying to adopt the governance of those that have tried to control their people? Which lead to the Pueblo Revolt. It is something that is hard for me to understand because I have not actually sat or had a family member apart of the tribal council which makes these kinds of decisions. Our traditional form of government is a leader who in a sense makes the decisions for the clan family and is the way that my family still does things today. My uncle does not have total control over everything there are family meetings involved and we make these decisions as a group and things progress from there. This proposition which the government has put forth on the Hopi people does in fact undermine tribal sovereignty. I thought the whole purpose of sovereignty was so that we are able to govern ourselves without anyone trying to tell us otherwise. We have our constitution set up the way that we want it to and it has worked for over 50 years what makes the federal government think that it needs to change? Who are they to tell us that the way we live our lives and govern ourselves is not the way of the world? What makes them think that the way they live their lives and govern their people is better than how we live? If this was correct we wouldn’t have the global warming issues and all the problems we have in the world today and there would not be congress women getting shot while out meeting the people. Maybe they need to rethink the way in which they run the country and not tell us how to run ours.