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1 Constitution of the Potter Valley Tribe 1 (2004)

handle is hein.amindian/cpvlt0001 and id is 1 raw text is: CONSTITUTION OF THE POTTER VALLEY TRIBE PREAMBLE We, the members of the Potter Valley Tribe, pursuant to our inherent sovereignty as a nation, do hereby adopt and establish this Constitution for the purposes of providing for the health, safety, and welfare of our people, to promote our economy, to preserve, protect, and pass on our culture to future generations, to maintain community harmony, to achieve fairness and justice, to honor our traditions, our ancestors, and our elders, to assert and exercise our sovereignty, to affirm and build our territorial base, to acquire land and water for future generations, to protect the cultural and natural resources of our aboriginal land or any other acquired territory, to carry on enterprises for the benefit of our community, and to establish duties and rights of the citizens of the Potter Valley Tribe living on or off-reservation. ARTICLE I- TURISDICTION The governmental authority of the Potter Valley Tribe extends to all matters and conduct occurring within the exterior boundaries of acquired lands of the Potter Valley Tribe, to any interests in the ancestral or other tribal lands and resources of the Potter Valley Tribe, including but not limited to the exercise of water, fishing, hunting, gathering, and environmental management rights; and over the members of Potter Valley Tribe wherever situated. The Potter Valley Tribe asserts its full authority and any authority granted to it by the federal, state, or local goverments presently or in the future. ARTICLE H- MEMBERSHIP The membership of the Potter Valley Tribe shall consist of: (a) Persons who vote in the election to adopt this Constitution, and who are not members of any other federally recognized tribe. (b) Lineal descendents of persons designated in subsection (a) who are at least eighteen (18) years old, whose applications for membership have been approved by the General Council, and who are not members of any other federally recognized tribe. (c) Biological children of persons designated in subsections (a) and (b) who are under eighteen (18) years old whose parents or legal guardians have filed applications for membership on their behalf and whose applications have been approved by the General Council. (d) Any person determined to be a Potter Valley Indian by an enrollment committee established by the Tribal Council, pursuant to Article IV, Section 8(c) of this Constitution and whose application has been approved by the Potter Valley General Council. The burden of satisfying membership requirements specified in the Tribal Enrollment Ordinance shall be on the person seeking membership. (e) Any person who has not formally relinquished membership in another federally recognized tribe will not be eligible for enrollment with the

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