CONSTITUTION

ARTICLE I - MEMBERSHIP

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Section 1. Qualifications. The members of the Kaw Nation shall include:

  1. All persons enrolled as of the date of adoption of this constitution as members of the Kaw Tribe of Oklahoma who met the membership requirements prescribed by the Tribe.
  2. All Persons who are descendants by blood of an original Kaw Indian allottee or allottees whose name or names appear on the 1902 Kaw Indian Allotment Roll, except the following persons:
    1. Those persons otherwise entitled to enrollment who, as an adult, elect to be enrolled with another tribe.
    2. Those persons otherwise entitled to enrollment who, as an adult, have received any payments in land or money by virtue of having been previously enrolled with some other tribe.
  3. No person, otherwise eligible for enrollment, shall be denied enrollment because they have purchased or received through inheritance land or property of another tribe or because they are considered by another tribe as a member of that tribe by virtue of their purchase or inheritance of such land or property or by the circumstances of their birth without affirmative application for membership by or on behalf of such person.

Section 2. Authority of the Executive Council. The Executive Council shall have the authority to establish by law:

  1. The procedures for enrollment of persons eligible for membership pursuant to Section 1(b).
  2. The procedures and requirements for the adoption of other persons as members of the Kaw Nation. Persons adopted into the Kaw Nation shall be recognized as honorary members and shall not have the right to vote, hold office or otherwise exercise the rights, benefits, or privileges of members enrolled under Section 1 of this article.
  3. The procedure for disenrollment of a member of the Kaw Nation, Provided, That, a member may be disenrolled without his consent only for fraud in obtaining his enrollment.

Section 3. Judicial Review. A decision denying any person enrollment as a member of the Kaw Nation of disenrolling any member of the Kaw Nation without his consent shall be subject to judicial review in the courts of the Kaw Nation upon the filing of an appeal.