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Name: Rubie Sooktis

Tribal Affiliation: Northern Cheyenne

Interview No.: NC046RS051205

Topic: Evolution of Cheyenne Government

Language: English

Time Code In: 00:00:43:15

Time Code Out: 00:03:55:27

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Q: “Please explain how the Northern Cheyenne Tribal Government began and what are some of the changes.”

A: “Well I guess we’ll talk about the beginning first. In 1935 or 34 the, through John Collier, Secretary of the, or the, the, I guess it would be the Indian Commissioner, I forget the title but his name was John Collier. He, through him he developed a, a prog, a, a policy called the Indian Reorganization Act. And the Indian Reorganization Act was, was to develop not only tribal government but also to, to develop, I guess it was for economic development purposes for the, for the tribes. And this became a national policy or a national act that was passed by the a, a, by the federal government. And the, this is was signi significant in, in some ways besides establishing the tribal governments is, is that, a, people were, the, people were asked to, to vote on it, the tribal members, they were asked to, they were provided information. On a local level they had interpreters, people that interpret the, the, the, not only Indian Reorganization Act but I guess the Indian Reorganization Act, the, the thing that happened was they had boil, boil, what we call boiler plate constitution and, and, and, and the people, the interpreters went from you know on the Northern Cheyenne, they went from district to district explaining the constitution and explaining the Northern Cheyenne Tribal Government as a result of the Indian Reorganization Act. And the people voted on it and accepted the, the, what we, the tribal government that we have now the Northern Cheyenne Tribal Government. I don’t have the, the voting you know what how many voted for it and how many voted against it but, but they did have a, the Northern Cheyenne tribal members did have a say and did have a vote and did have a voice in the Northern Cheyenne Tribal Government.”