Council for Tribal Employment Rights Tribal Sovereignty Council for Tribal Employment Rights National Convention Lummi Indian Nation August 1-3, 2016

PLANNING FOR A DIVERSE AND SUCCESSFUL SOVEREIGN ECONOMY

Congress has established that with few exceptions “Tribal Governments have the same inherent power as federal, state, municipal/corporate, governments to- regulate their internal affairs”. Excerpt from the Harvard Report on Tribal Corporate Development - 1984

President William J. Clinton on May 14,1998 made the following statement. “Congress has conferred on tribes numerous provisions of law that are meant to assist in their economic future that is necessary to improve the government-to-government relations whereby all people respect the rights of sovereign tribal government to maintain the healthy and productive resources of their lands and people.”

Let’s look at 9 important areas of tribal sovereignty

1. Forming a government with all powers and authority by tribal statute.

2. Determine tribal membership.

3. Regulate the jurisdiction of tribal property.

4. Regulate individual property within the established trust area.

5. The right to tax.

6. The right to maintain law and order.

7. The right to exclude non-members from tribal territory.

8. The right to regulate domestic relations.

9. The right to regulate commerce and trade therein.

A tribal trust area can meet or exceed any tax or development benefit that can be offered by the majority of federal, state, municipal districts tax fee zones, economic development trade zones, hub zones, enterprise community zones, international free trade zones.

Remember we are here to protect our 7 generations Remember we are here to protect our 7 generations. In everything we do that must be on the forefront of our minds. Lem lem Ken Stanger Sovereign Development Corporation