The tribal council for the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians in Michigan approved a measure for marriage equality this weekend, paving the way for them to be the third Native American tribe ever to formally approve of marriage equality. 

Little Traverse Bay Bands Chairman Dexter McNamara told the Petosky News that “I’m going to have to think about it.” If McNamara wields his veto, it would take a seven-vote majority on the council to override. And the initial vote, 5-4, makes that seem unlikely.

The Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians would become only the third Native American tribe to formally approve of marriage equality. In Washington, the Suquamish Tribe extended marriage rights in 2011, more than a year before the state.  And the Coquille Indian Tribe, located on the southern Oregon coast, was the first to make the change back in 2008. Now the rest of the state could face a ballot measure on the question.

Marriage equality is technically illegal in Michigan, but the tribe makes its own laws. Ergo, rock on.