Memoir release and defining “governance drift”.

Over 30 years ago, Indian Gaming began reshaping tribal government. The goal was community empowerment, but over time, quiet structural shifts took over.

A System Built by Tribal Members: A Memoir of Tribal Governance, Drift, and Survival is officially here.

Through 30+ years of frontline experience in tribal housing, gaming, and compliance, Leroy Roger Wandahsega Jr. documents how credential barriers and administrative expansion slowly pushed tribal members out of the very institutions they created.