Skagitonians to Preserve Farmland has expressed its concerns regarding wording in Swinomish Tribe’s proposed Constitution.

Members of the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community are scheduled to vote on the tribe’s new governing document next week.

Interest in tribal elections doesn’t usually extend beyond reservation boundaries, but this one has residents, land owners, county officials and now a farm group worried that the impacts could extend well beyond land held in trust for the tribe by the federal government.

A May 11 letter to the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs, signed by Skagitoni...