Proof 11 - 1970 Chief’s Act (Public Law 91-495)

The Chickamauga Nation

February 10, 2025
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Congress and Senate

The Cherokee Nation Is Terminated and Does Not Exist

Proof 11 - 1970 Chief’s Act (Public Law 91-495)

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AN ACT                                      
To authorize each of the Five Civilized Tribes of Oklahoma to popularly select their principal officer, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled That, notwithstanding any other provisions of law, the principal chiefs of the Cherokee, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole Tribes of Oklahoma and the governor of the Chickasaw Tribe of Oklahoma shall be popularly selected by the respective tribes in accordance with procedures established by the officially recognized tribal spokesman and or governing entity. Such established procedures shall be subject to approval by the Secretary of the Interior.
SEC. 2. The Secretary of the Interior or his representative is hereby authorized to assist, upon request, any of such officially recognized tribal spokesman and/or governing entity in the development and implementation of such procedures.
SEC. 3. A principal officer selected pursuant to section 1 of this Act shall be duly recognized as the principal chief, or in the case of the Chickasaw Tribe, the governor, of that tribe.
SEC. 4. Any principal officer currently holding office at the date of enactment of this Act shall continue to serve for a period not to exceed twelve months or until expiration of his most recent appointment, whichever is shorter, unless an earlier vacancy arises from resignation, disability, or death of the incumbent, in which case the office of principal chief or governor may be filled at the earliest possible date in accordance with section 1 of this Act.
SEC. 5. Nothing in this Act shall prevent any such incumbent referred to in section 4 of this Act from being elected as a principal chief or governor.

Approved October 22, 1970.

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EDITORIAL ASSERTION:

Some have had the audacity to claim the 1970 Chief’s Act was a re-recognition by Congress to provide a distinct political identity to the Five Civilized Tribes.
Let’s Examine the text of the 1970 Principal Chiefs Act – Public Law 91-495 October 22, 1970
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled That, notwithstanding any other provisions of law, the principal chiefs of the Cherokee, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole Tribes of Oklahoma and the governor Principal chiefs, of the Chickasaw Tribe of Oklahoma shall be popularly selected by the respective tribes in accordance with procedures established by the officially recognized tribal spokesman and or governing entity. Such established procedures shall be subject to approval by the Secretary of the Interior.  (This does not say they are officially recognized tribe, it says, “officially recognized tribal spokesman.  There is a legal difference)

Again, the claims of the Congressionally terminated tribes of Oklahoma do NOT have re-recognition since their official group termination in 1906.

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(C) This document was produced at the request of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs on July 18, 2019, to document the History, Anthropology, Culture, Religion, and Archaeology of The Chickamauga Nation.

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