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NOV-04-99 THU 12:55 PM   OST PRESIDENTS OFFICE  FAX NO 33   P.03



                             wkd. RESOLUTION NO.WB-99-03


    RESOLUTION OF THE WOUNDED KNEE DISTRICT COUNCIL
                OF THE OGLALA SIOUX TRIBE
                (An Unincorporated Tribe)

  RESOLUTION OF THE WOUNDED KNEE DISTRICT COUNCIL
 SUPPORTING CAMP JUSTICE'S STAND THAT THE COMMUNITY
OF WHITE CLAY, NEBRASKA IS WITHIN THE JURISDICTION OF
THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AND THE OGLALA SIOUX TRIBE.

   WHEREAS, the United States Congress passed the 1889
Act establishing the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation to
include a 10 mile wide by 5 mile wide deep area in the
state of Nebraska, and

   WHEREAS, numerous crimes to include murder have been
committed in Nebraska that are unsolved and 7 murders
were committed in White Clay, Nebraska, and

   WHEREAS, in testimony before the Nebraska Liquor 
Commission the Sheridan County Commissioners, did state 
that it was an Indian problem and it was concentrated in 
White Clay and they didn't want it spread to Rushville,
Chadron and Gordon, and

   WHEREAS, the Oglala Sioux Tribal Council is concerned
about the children and future crimes being committed and
unresolved and,

   WHEREAS, White Clay, Nebraska is an unincorporated wide
open town that needs law enforcement and justice, and

   WHEREAS, the United States Congress never did rescind or 
code any land from the Pine Ride Reservation to the state
of Nebraska, and,

   WHEREAS, the Oglala Sioux Tribal Court has issued an
order stating that unless and until the Oglala Sioux Tribal
Council firmly declares that the community of White Clay,
Nebraska is within the 1889 territory of Pine Ridge Indian
Reservation, and therefore subject to the laws of the
Oglala Sioux Tribe, the court can not exert jurisdictions,
now

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     THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the Oglala Sioux Tribe
Council does declare the community of White Clay, Nebraska
to be within the 1889 territory and subject to the laws
and jurisdictions of the Oglala Sioux Tribe.

C-E-R-T-I-F-I-C-A-T-I-O-N-S:

I, as undersigned secretary of Wounded Knee District
Council, hereby certify that this Resolution was adopted
by the vote of: 5 for; 0 against;  
abstain; 1 not voting, during a REGULAR MEETING 
held on the 19th day  of October 1999.


                                   /S/___________________
                                   Doris Respects Nothing
                                   Secretary
                                   Wounded Knee District

A-T-T-E-S-T:

/S/_______________________
Floyd Gibsons, President
Wounded Knee District