How Tribes Maintain Continuity

How do tribes maintain continuity across generations, despite colonization, displacement, and erasure?

This episode explains what continuity means in a tribal governance context and why it is a defining feature of real tribal nations. We break down how tribes document leadership, citizenship, and community existence over time, and why continuity is demonstrated through records, governance, and collective political life, not symbolism or personal claims.

Understanding continuity helps clarify why long-standing tribal governments carry authority, and why newly formed groups without documentation or structure cannot substitute for them.

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