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Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Constitution

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Location: Oregon

Population: 4,000

Date of Constitution: 1938, as amended 1992

Preamble: We, the Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon, in order to establish a more responsible and effective organization to promote our general welfare, conserve and develop our lands and other resources, and secure to ourselves and our posterity the power to exercise certain rights of self-government not inconsistent with existing Federal and State laws, do ordain and establish this Constitution of the Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon. 

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Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs
Citation

Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs. 1938. "Constitution and By-Laws of the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon As Amended." Warm Springs, OR.

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