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RESOLUTION 34.66
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WHEREAS, Article II Membership, of the Revised Constitution and Bylaws
of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe provides for membership in the Tribe and
the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe desires to maintain a current membership
roll; and
WHEREAS, on May 14, 1961, the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe designated the
April 14, 1941, Annuity Roll as the Basic Membership Robl; and
WHEREAS, the said 1941 Annuity, containing information on sex, date of
birth and resignation and band affiliation, was designated in the Revised
Constitution of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe as the Basic Roll; and.
WHEREAS, in making enrollments based on the 1941 Annuity Roll, the officers
of the Tribal Executive Committee were assigned the duty of reviewing
applications and presenting them to the Tribal Executive Committee with
recommendations; and
WHEREAS, the officers in carrying out said assigned duty followed certain
rules hereinafter stated,
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the rules followed by the officers
‘are ratified and approved and adopted as follows:
MINNESOTA CHIPPEWA TRIBE
PROCEDURES FOR DEVELOPING CURRENT MEMBER HIP ROLL
qt, Basic Membership Roll
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_&. Membership cards developed for each name appearing on the basic
roll to include the following information:
(1) The name, date of birth, sex, the Annui ty Roll number, and band
affiliation shown on the basic roll,
(2) Blood degree as shown in Minnesota Agancy working copy of the :
1941 Annuity Roll,
(3) The names of parents where this can be determined from infore
mation on the 1941 Annuity Roll, Where this information cannot
be determined from the 1941 Annuity Roll, other Minnesota Agency
records will be used as the program develops,
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(1) Infozmation on death of members whose names appear on the
basic roll is obtained from all available sources, Minne
sota Agency file of death certificates, probate records, and
correspondence are used as a source of information, County +
death certificates that appear in the county court houses in
the area are reviewed for information, Signed statements
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from individuals who have knowledge of deaths of members are
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received and filed to serve as substantiating death information.
The date of death, the source and whereabouts of the information
are recorded on the membership cards and such cards are removed
of deceased members,
C from the file of the current living members and placed in a file
C, Relinguishments
(1) Members who have requested, in writing, relinquishment of Tribal
affiliation with the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe shall be honored
and their cards will be removed from the current membership
roll, New enrollees who claim eligibility through members who
have relinquished their enrollment with the Minnesota Chippewa
Tribe will not be considered as meeting eligibility require~
ments, after date of relinquishment,
II, New Enrollments
A, Membership cards are developed for all applicants approved for
enrollment by the Tribal Executive Committee’in the following manner:
(1) Names of new members, sex, date of birth, parents, and res=
ervation affiliation are taken from the application,
(2) The parents are identified, as to whether or not they are
the natural parents,
(a) If their names appear on the basic roll, their basic
roll number, bleed degree, reservation affiliation and
band designation are noted,
(6): If both parents have the same reservation affiliation,
the new applicant will assume the band designation of
the mother unless a specific request is made to the
contrary on the application, This is consistent with
the practice followed on all prior Annuity Roll devel.
opments,
(c) If the parents are of different reservation rolls and
the application specifically requests enrollment with
the father’s reservation, their request will be honored
and the name of the new enrollee is place on the rese
ervation of the father, and he then also assumes the
band designation of the father,
(3) The dégree of Indian blood :
(a) New enrollees will assume 1/2 of the Minnesota Chippewa
Tribe blood of both the father and the mother combined,
(b) Unless the application is signed by an alleged father or
a statement accompanies the application which in effect
can be considered that the father is acknowledging paternity
of the applicant, only the blood quantum of the mother will
be considered,
(4) Deaths and relinquishments of new enrollees will follow the same


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procedure as in I,B, and C, above,
(5) The latest address, and date of such, of all members as obtained from
the applications and correspondence is noted in pencil on the face of
the membership card,
We do hereby certify that the foregoing resolution was duly adopted by a
vote of 10 for and 1 silent at a regular meeting of the Tribal Executive
Committee a quorum being present, held on January 7, 1966, at Bemidji, Minn,
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Peter Dufault, President
The Minnesota Chippewa Tribe
earl Fabre, Secretary
The Minnesota Chippewa
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