Wagon’s agenda item claimed that Millard did meet “the tribal enrollment requirement” of being an American Indian. Northern Arapaho Tribal policy is largely governed by gatherings of voting-age members at general council meetings, with a quorum, or required minimum attendance, of 150 people.Īccording to NAT spokesman Matthew Benson, about 131 tribal members came to the Arapahoe School on Saturday to hear issues and vote.Īnother topic proposed for consideration, this one by tribal member Nicole Wagon, was a resolution to remove Janet Millard, Chief Judge of the Wind River Tribal Court, from her position. Before that, the federal government outlawed it in various forms beginning in 1832.įederal law now has a soft ban on alcohol sales in Indian Country: the practice can be legalized by host tribes, if the tribes will follow state liquor laws. Many agenda items, including one contemplating legalizing alcohol sales in the Wind River Casino, went unheard.Īlcohol vending on the Wind River Indian Reservation, which includes the casino, has been forbidden by the Northern Arapaho and Eastern Shoshone law and order code since about the late 1970s. Several major issues went undecided by the Northern Arapaho Tribe on Saturday because too few members attended a meeting of its legislative branch.
