born after 1962 must have 1/4 Blackfeet blood to be enrolled as members, without provision for any “descendant” membership), with Sioux & Assini-boine Ord. No. 1, § 1(d) & (e) (providing that “[e]ach child of one-fourth (1/4) or more Assiniboine and/or Sioux blood born after [October 1, 1960] to any member of the Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes” qualifies for full membership, and that “[e]ach child of one-eighth (1/8) or more but less than one-quarter (1/4), Assiniboine and/or Sioux blood born to any member of the Assini-boine and Sioux Tribes” qualifies for associate membership). We recognize that Smith relinquished his tribal enrollment in 1996. This decision does not definitively show, however, that Smith or the tribe ceased to consider Smith an Indian person. See Cruz, 554 F.3d at 850 (<HOLDING>). A tribal investigator, Tom Atkinson,
holding that bruce requires an analysis of indian status from the perspective of the individual as well as from the perspective of the tribe holding that as a matter of federal law an indian tribe is subject to suit only where congress has authorized the suit or the tribe has waived its immunity holding that an official of an indian tribe should be stripped of his authority and corresponding immunity to act on behalf of his tribe whenever he exercises a power his tribe was powerless to convey to him holding that an indian tribe is subject to suit only where congress has authorized the suit or the tribe has waived its immunity holding that state could require indian tribe to affix tax stamps purchased from the state to individual packages of cigarettes prior to the time of sale to nonmembers of the tribe and that state has power off the reservation to seize unstamped cigarettes as contraband