We, the Wind people of the Kaw Tribe of Oklahoma, hereinafter referred to as the Kaw Nation, trusting in our creator to provide guidance in all our affairs, in order to provide for the common health, safety and welfare; to protect, secure, and advance the rights, cultures and traditions of the Kaw Indian people; to provide a more useful mechanism for the day-to-day government of the Kaw Nation; and to secure to ourselves and our children the benefits of the Oklahoma Indian Welfare Act of June 26, 1936 (49 Stat. 1967), do hereby ordain and establish this Constitution of the Kaw Nation, which shall supercede the Governing Resolution of the Kaw Indian Tribe of Oklahoma adopted on October 7, 1958, and approved by the Secretary of the Interior on July 23, 1959.