Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes Constitution

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Location: Montana

Population: 7,000

Date of Constitution: 1935

Preamble: We, the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Reservation, Montana, in order to establish a more responsible organization, promote our general welfare, conserve and develop our lands and resources, and secure to ourselves and our posterity the power to exercise certain rights of self-government not inconsistent with Federal, State, and local laws, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the Confederated Tribes of the Flathead Reservation. 

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Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes. 1935. "Constitution and Bylaws of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes Of the Flathead Reservation, as amended." Pablo, Montana.

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