Nations in the United States Several Native American tribes have also legalized same-sex marriage. Those are: Blackfeet Nation Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Tribes of Alaska Cherokee Nation Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation Coquille Tribe Fort McDermitt Paiute and Shoshone Tribes of the Fort McDermitt Indian Reservation Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation Grand Portage Band of Chippewa Iipay Nation of Santa Ysabel Keweenaw Bay Indian Community Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians Mashantucket Pequot Oneida Nation of Wisconsin Osage Nation Pascua Yaqui Tribe Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians Port Gamble S'Klallam Tribe The Puyallup Tribe of Indians Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community San Carlos Apache Tribe Suquamish Tribe Wind River Indian Reservation Uruguay Uruguay became the first country in South America to allow civil unions (for both opposite sex and same-sex couples) on 1 January 2008. Children can be adopted by same-sex couples since 2009. A same-sex marriage bill passed in the Chamber of Deputies in December 2012, as well as in the Senate in April 2013 but with minor amendments. The amended bill was approved by the Chamber of Deputies in a 71–21 vote on 10 April and was signed by the President on 3 May 2013. The law took effect on 5 August 2013. Asia Taiwan is the only country in Asia performing same-sex marriages, while Israel and Armenia recognize same-sex marriages performed overseas. On 24 May 2017 the Constitutional Court in Taiwan ruled that same-sex couples have a right to marry, and gave the legislature two years to amend Taiwanese marriage laws accordingly. On 24 May 2019, Taiwan became the first country in Asia to recognize same-sex marriage. Cambodia In 2004 King Norodom Sihanouk announced that he supported legislation extending marriage rights to same-sex couples. In 2011, a ban prohibiting gay marriage was abolished, making same-sex marriages not illegal, but also not protected by law. Some village chiefs may occasionally issue marriage certificates to same-sex couples if one of them is willing to identify as the opposite sex on the marriage license. China Same-sex marriage is not legally recognized. Article 2 of the Marriage Law declares "one husband and one wife" as one of the principles guiding marriages. The principle, first codified in 1950, was intended to outlaw polygamy, but is now