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1 Constitution of the Chickasaw Nation of Oklahoma 1 (1984)

handle is hein.amindian/cchkwn0001 and id is 1 raw text is: CONSTITUTION OF THE CHICKASAW NATION OF OKLAHOMA PREAMBLE We, the people of the Chickasaw Nation, acknowledging with gratitude the grace and beneficence of God, in permitting us to make choice of our own form of government, do, in accordance with the first, second, fourth and seventh articles of the Treaty between the United States, the Choctaws and Chickasaws, made and concluded at Washington City, June 22, A.D. 1855, and the Treaty of April 28, A.D. 1866, ordain and establish this Constitution for our government, within the following limits, to-wit: Beginning on the north bank of Red River, at the mouth of Island Bayou, where it empties into Red River, about twenty-six miles on a straight line below the mouth of False Washita, thence running a northwesterly course along the main channel of said bayou to the junction of the three prongs of said bayou nearest the dividing ridge between Washita and Low Blue Rivers, as laid down on Captain R. L. Hunter's map; thence northerly along the eastern prong of said Island Bayou to its source; thence due north to the Canadian River; thence west along the main Canadian to the ninety-eight degree of west longitude; thence south to Red River and thence down Red River to the beginning; Provided; however, if a line running due north from the eastern source of Island Bayou to the main Canadian, shall not include Allen's or Wapanucka Academy within the Chickasaw District, then an off-set shall be made from said line, so as to leave said academy two miles within the Chickasaw District, north, west and south from the lines of boundary. ARTICLE I - NAME The name of this body shall be the Chickasaw Nation. ARTICLE II - CITIZENSHIP Section 1. This Chickasaw Nation shall consist of all Chickasaw Indians by blood whose names appear on the final rolls of the Chickasaw Nation approved pursuant to Section 2 of the Act of April 26, 1906, (34 Stat. 137) and their lineal descendants. Sec. 2. The Tribal Legislature shall have the power to enact ordinances governing future citizenship and loss of citizenship in the Chickasaw Nation. ARTICLE III - RIGHTS OF SUFFRAGE Section 1. All citizens eighteen (18) years of age or older shall be deemed qualified electors under the authority of this Constitution; provided, they have duly registered to vote.

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