United Tribes of Michigan
Committed to join forces, advance, protect, preserve and enhance the mutual interests, treaty rights, sovereignty and cultural way of life of the sovereign tribes of Michigan throughout the next seven generations.

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(to tribal web sites and other sites of interest)

Welcome to the United Tribes of Michigan Association Web site.

United Tribes of Michigan Executive Director Matt Wesaw and Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm talking at a United Tribes of Michigan meeting in Lansing in 2006

U-M Repatriation

The Detroit News' Mike Wilkinson writes "On the wooden shelves of a University of Michigan laboratory, thousands of relics -- ceramic bowls, copper beads and stone and bone tools -- await the careful eyes of researchers". Read the remainder of the Detroit News article here

UToM Exec. Dir. WesawUnited Tribes Elects New Exec. Director

With a unanimous vote, the United Tribes of Michigan members recently voted to hire an executive director from its ranks. Join us in welcoming Exective Director Matthew Wesaw, and learn a bit more about him here!

United Tribes issue Statement Regarding Tuition Waiver and Proposal Two

Click here to read the full statement

Group Looking at California Worries About MCRI Effect

A study of the impact of a California proposal that outlawed affirmative action indicates that programs, especially education programs to help both women and minorities, could be hurt dramatically in Michigan if the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative is passed, the Center for Education of Women at the University of Michigan argued.

The center issued the report after studying what it said were the effects of Proposition 209 in California, the first state to adopt a proposal explicating banning the use of affirmative action on the basis of race and gender in hiring and education decisions. The report, written by Susan Kaufmann, associate director of the center, said if the MCRI is approved and becomes part of the constitution, it could have a major effect on programs designed to improve access to education and employment as well as on admission and hiring decisions.

Jennifer Gratz, executive director with the MCRI, acknowledged there would be effects if the proposal passes, because it would make programs based on race illegal.

"People will have to rely on their character and merit to gain admission and not race," she said. But she also said the report seems to belie claims made by supporters of affirmative action that race is only one factor in admissions and hiring deci