CONSTITUTION
OF THE
SEMINOLE NATION
OF
OKLAH0MA

Adopted March 8, 1969,
As Amended February25, 1989,
As Amended December 14, 1991

PREAMBLE

We, the members of the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma, in order to promote justice, to continue cooperation with Federal, State and local governments, to encourage the general welfare, to safeguard our interests, to promote social, educational and economic opportunities for our children and for ourselves, and understanding this to be the democratic way pertaining to democracy and self-government by the people of the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma, do hereby ordain and establish this constitution.

ARTICLE I - NAME

The name of this body shall be "The Seminole Nation of Oklahoma."

ARTICLE II -MEMBERSHIP

The membership of this body shall consist of all Seminole citizens whose names appear on the final rolls of the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma approved pursuant to Section 2 of the Act of April 26, 1906 (34 Stat. 137) and their descendants. An enrolled member of another Indian tribe shall not be eligible for membership in the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma.

ARTICLE III - CHIEF AND ASSISTANT CHIEF

Section 1. The executive authority of the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma shall be vested in a Chief and Assistant Chief.
Section 2. Any member of the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma who is at least 35 years of age and who possesses no less than one-quarter degree of Seminole Indian blood may be eligible for the office of Chief and Assistant Chief. No person who has been convicted of a felony by a court of competent jurisdiction shall be considered eligible for these offices until either pardoned or five years have passed since release from confinement.

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