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1 Constitution of the Timbisha Shoshone Tribe 1 (2014)

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CONSTITUTION OF THE


                        TIMBISHA SHOSHONE TRIBE


                                  PREAMBLE

       We, the Timbisha Shoshone Tribe, being a sovereign native people, in order to
organize for our common good, to maintain and foster our tribal culture, to protect and
conserve our land and natural resources, to promote the social, economic and general
welfare of our people, to maintain peace and order, and to secure the rights and powers
inherent in our sovereign status guaranteed to us by laws of the United States, do hereby
establish and adopt this document in accordance with the Indian Reorganization Act of
June 18, 1934 (48 Stat. 984) as amended, which from this time forward shall govern the
Timbisha Shoshone Tribe.


                                   ARTICLE I
                                     Name
       The name of this organization shall be Timbisha Shoshone Tribe, hereinafter
referred to as the Tribe.


                                  ARTICLE II
                             Territory and Jurisdiction
       The jurisdiction of the Tribe shall extend to all lands, water and resources within
the exterior boundaries of the Timbisha Shoshone Reservation and to such other lands,
water and resources as may be thereafter acquired by the Tribe.


                                  ARTICLE III
                                  Membership
       Section 1.
       Membership in the Timbisha Shoshone Tribe shall consist of the following:

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