 Henson says that's what it would take for the government to actually meet its legal obligations to tribes. Robert Maxim, the Brookings researcher, would first settle for a smaller change, a standalone question on federal forms about indigenous identity, sort of like the old question on Hispanic and Latino ethnicity. Are you Native regardless of your race? Maxim says that would better reflect how Native people see themselves. I'm Savannah Marr for Marketplace.