CHAPTER 37 - GOVERNMENTAL CORPORATIONS
Section 37-1 Corporations
37-1.01 Corporations Authorized.
(a) This Act shall be known as the Tribal Governmental Corporations Chapter.
(b) There are hereby authorized to be created by duly adopted Resolutions of the Spokane Tribal
Council of the Spokane Tribe of Indians, corporations which will be agencies and
instrumentalities of the Spokane Tribal Government.
(c) The corporations organized and created under this Chapter and other Tribal law.
(d) The right to repeal, alter or amend this Chapter at any time is expressly reserved.
Legislative History–Enacted 1/24/04, Resolu. 2004-123; Readopted 8/01/06, Resolu. 2006-524.
Section 37-2 Purpose
37-2.01 Purpose, Constitutional Authority.
(a) Indian Tribes have been consistently recognized throughout the history of the United States of
America to retain as governmental powers, where consistent with the trusteeship of the United
States, all powers necessary to commercially utilize their undivided resources for the economic
benefit of the Tribe to be of the same nature as all other Tribal powers, pursuant to the
provisions of the Constitution of the Tribe.
(b) The Constitution of the Tribe, in its Preamble, in Article I, and in Article VI, provides for the
exercise of the Tribe’s corporate, economic and commercial interests and powers of the Tribe by
the Tribe and its council to further the economic advancement of the Spokane Indian people.
(c) The Tribe and its members have endured a century of economic deprivation and oppression.
This fact has been recognized by the Congress of the United States through numerous Acts
intended to assist in the development of the Indian resources.
(d) There is now a need and an opportunity to develop Spokane natural resources and human
resources to provide a standard of living and education to all Tribal members equal to that of all
citizens of the United States.
(e) The Tribe adopts this Chapter in order to meet the following independent goals:
(1) Carry out a constitutional mandate;
(2) Develop and manufacture Tribal natural resources to obtain the highest value possible
for those resources;
(3) To raise the standard of living and education for all Tribal members; and
(4) To enter into and take advantage of other business and commercial opportunities
available to the Tribe.
(f) To accomplish the goals set out in c) above, this Chapter is designed to further the development
of all of the Tribal resources including, but not limited to:
(1) The Tribal labor force on or near the Spokane Indian Reservation;
(2) Timber;
(3) Minerals, oil and gas;
(4) Waters;
(5) Lands;
(6) Fish and Wildlife;
(7) Agricultural products and livestock;
(8) Hydroelectric and other electric power.
(g) To accomplish the goals set out in c) and d), above, the Council hereby finds that for purposes
of efficiency and wise stewardship, it is necessary for the management of the economic
development of Tribal resources to be separated from other governmental functions of the Tribe
and placed within the responsibility of persons or entities different from the Council, so that
commercial development may take place within, and be based upon, the sphere of the economic
marketplace rather that within the sphere of Tribal political concerns.
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Revised Spokane Law & Order Code, 5/14/2013