American Indian Constitutional Reform and the Rebuilding of Native NationsSince 1975, when the U. S. government adopted a policy of self determination for American Indian nations, a large number of the 562 federally recognized nations have seized the opportunity to govern themselves and determine their own economic, political, and cultural futures. As a first and crucial step in this process, many nations are revising constitutions originally developed by the U. S. government to create governmental structures more attuned