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MOWA Choctaw Indians Tribal Sovereignty

MOWA Choctaw Indians Tribal Sovereignty. Ways We (The MOWA Choctaw Indians of Alabama) Have Exercised Our Tribal Sovereignty Chief Framon Weaver. MOWA Band of Choctaw Indians. Indian Schoolhouse. Mobile County 1922. Tribal Constitution.

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MOWA Choctaw Indians Tribal Sovereignty

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  1. MOWA Choctaw Indians Tribal Sovereignty Ways We (The MOWA Choctaw Indians of Alabama) Have Exercised Our Tribal Sovereignty Chief Framon Weaver

  2. MOWA Band of Choctaw Indians

  3. Indian Schoolhouse Mobile County 1922

  4. Tribal Constitution Adopted Tribal Constitution and Established Three Forms of Government.

  5. MOWA Choctaw Housing Authority Passed ordinance to create Housing Authority

  6. Establishment of Indian Housing Authority

  7. State of Alabama Recognizes and declares all lands owned by the Tribe. • Lobbied State of Alabama to recognize all tribal lands owned by the tribe to be declared reservation property.

  8. Examples of How State of Alabama Recognizes our Tribal Soveriegnty

  9. MOWA Choctaw Tribal Police • Passed Tribal ordinance to create Police Department • Lobbied State of Alabama for our right to establish and operate our Police Department.

  10. MOWA Choctaw Tribal Police • Passed Tribal ordinance to create Police Department

  11. Tribal Police Act

  12. MOWA Choctaw ORI Number issued by the FBI

  13. Continued: •  Negotiated an agreement with the State of Alabama to establish our Community Service Block Grant and Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program. • As a result of litigation involving an incinerator on tribal reservation, the court recognized our right to issue our own permits.

  14. Examples of Tribal Soveriegnty The court recognized our right to build on property owned by the tribe without obtaining building permits or licenses from the County. In regards to the Indian Child Welfare Act, we are considered the same as a federally recognized tribe.

  15. Currently in litigation with Mobile County to regain ownership of electronic bingo machines that were seized from our Reservation and establish our right to operate a gaming center on our reservation

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