CHEROKEE NATION OF OKLAHOMA
COUNCIL
OF THE
CHEROKEE NATION
RESOLUTION NO. 21-88
Supporting the Guidelines: Rules and Regulations
of the
Cherokee Registration Committee
WHEREAS, the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma is a federally recognized Indian Tribe, organized in accordance with a constitution approved by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs on September 5, 1975 and ratified June 26, 1976; and
WHEREAS, the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma has the sovereign right to determine its own membership; and
WHEREAS, the Constitution of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma empowers the Cherokee Registration Committee to consider the qualifications and to determine the eligibility requirements for those applying to have their names entered in the Cherokee Register; and
WHEREAS, the Cherokee Registration Committee has developed revisions to the 1978 "Guidelines: Rules and Regulations of the Cherokee Registration .Committee. "These revisions have also had the imput of the Principal Chief, the Tribal Council through the Tribal Council Registration Committee, and the Tribunal of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma - clearly desiring these revisions to be in line with the philosophy and vision of the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma; to be in line with the Constitution of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma; and to be in the best interest of all Cherokee Tribal Members; and
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CHEROKEE NATION, it supports and ratifies the "Guidelines: Rules and Regulations of the Cherokee Registration Committee," established in the minutes of the meeting held and convened on the 27th day of January 1988 and formally approved by the Cherokee Registration Committee on the 11th day of February 1988.
CERTIFICATION
The foregoing resolution was adopted by the Council of the Cherokee Nation at a duly called meeting on the 12th day of March , 1988 having Fourteen members
present, constituting a quorum, by the vote of 14 yea; ...
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