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Box 2574 :: :: Olympia, Wa Fido Net 1:352/333 :: :: 98507-2574 206-786-9629 :: :: USA The Quarto Mundista BBS :: ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: CONFERENCE OF TRIBAL GOVERNMENTS SESSION III RESOLUTION #8-51479 Jurisdiction PREAMBLE: Indian Tribe's possess sovereign governmental powers and rights which have been consistently recognized by executive, legislative, and judicial branches of the Federal government. Today, Indians of the State of Washington are becoming increasingly aware of their individual and Tribal rights, and of historical violation of these rights. As a result, Tribes are becoming increasingly active is the exercise of individual and Tribal Indian rights. As Tribal Governments develop, they exert control over more and more aspects of the lives of their Tribal members. Indian Tribes are today facing the problems of establishing their rights to control activities on their reservations and on related off-reservation lands such as usual and accustomed fishing grounds and stations. WHEREAS; the services Provided to Indian Tribe's by the State of Washington as a result of the State's assumption of jurisdiction pursuant to Public Law 83-280 are insufficient to provide adequate law and order on Indian reservations; and, WHEREAS; the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978 provides a framework for Tribal jurisdiction over dependent Indian children, to meet one of the most important needs of Indian Tribes today; and, WHEREAS; the uses of land on Indian Reservations must be regulated by the governing Tribes in order to ensure that the reservation shall always be appropriate places for the Indian people to live and work within the context of their own Tribal cultures; and, WHEREAS; Tribal Courts are necessary to the implementation of governmental powers of Indian Tribes, and the immediate development of such courts is absolutely necessary; and WHEREAS; the Preservation of many natural resources such as salmon runs are dependent upon the controls of Tribes not only over their reservation but also over their usual and accustomed area; and, WHEREAS; law and order in Indian Reservations is necessary for the protection of reservation residents and visitors, and tribes must have available to them adequate law and order resources and the authority to use these resources to protect the tribe and individual; and, WHEREAS; many reservations have developed in ways that require the additions of nearby lands to such reservations; and, WHEREAS; the Preservation of the sovereign rights of all Indian people are dependent upon their exercise and control of these rights over their usual and accustomed area, members, children, lands, and other natural resources, so that the people of the governing tribe may fully enjoy their rights and status as Indian people, and, NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Tribes participating in this Conference of Tribal Governments agree to support the exercise by Indian Tribes of the full panoply of sovereign powers that are inherent in each Tribe, including but not limited to the exercise of jurisdiction in the above-mentioned areas. Introduced by Mel Tonasket, Colville Confederated Tribes. Date: 5-14-79, Adopted: 5-15-79. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- To have a current Center For World Indigenous Studies Publication Catalogue sent to you via e-mail, send a request to jburrows@halcyon.com Center For World Indigenous Studies P.O. Box 2574 Olympia, WA U.S.A. 98507-2574 Fax: 206-956-1087 BBS: 206-786-9629