Yes, the yonega are not white (the Cherokee language goes for the literal "white" rather than "long knives" or "untrustworthy" or "dances with yellow metal") and Indians are not red.
I worry that if we all got together to rewrite the Constitution even if only to "modernize," what sort of hash would be made of the Bill of Rights? Yes, the UK gets along without a written Bill of Rights...but by comparison to the U.S., their free speech protection has been squashed like a bug.
Call me paranoid.