The Tribal Record
The Tribal Record (the library, at waccamaw.org/members/library) is the tribe's authoritative body of governing documents — organized, searchable, and tied back to the original scans.
The record is grouped by type:
- Resolutions — the formal acts of the tribe (the largest group).
- Constitution — the governing documents and their amendments.
- Offices — the roles and offices of tribal government.
- Decisions — recorded determinations and rulings.
- Timeline — the tribe's chronology.
- Biography — the lives that shaped the tribe.
- Datasets — structured records (elections, membership, finances, and more).
- Narrative & Findings — longer-form accounts and investigations.
What appears here depends on your ring:
- Members see records the Council has classified for member viewing and cleared. A record that hasn't been cleared yet won't appear — not because anything is broken, but because the Council reviews each record before it's shared with the general membership.
- Leadership sees everything, including the leadership ring (banking, legal, membership, and other sensitive records).
If the library looks sparse to you as a member, that's the clearance gate working as intended. As the Council reviews records, more of the library opens up.
Click any record to read it.
Each record shows:
- The text — the record's content, transcribed and organized.
- Provenance — where it came from and, where available, a verification verdict (has this been checked against the original?).
- The source scan — a link to the original document (a PDF or photo of the signed resolution, the letter, the dataset). This is what makes the record verifiable rather than just asserted: you can always go look at the original.
Source scans are private and gated the same way the records are — only someone in the right ring can open them.
The Tribal Record is built verification-first. Every record can carry:
- the primary source it was drawn from,
- a checksum of that source, and
- a verdict from a review pass.
That means the record isn't just a convenient copy — it's an auditable one. When a record says the tribe resolved something on a certain date, you can open the scan of the signed resolution and confirm it yourself.
The same record is available to AI assistants through a standard MCP endpoint
(mcp.waccamaw.org), with the same ring rules — an assistant using a leader's
key can read the full corpus; a member's key sees only the cleared records. See
API access.
Next: API access.