Article X- National and state Lands
A Land base is necessary for protecting our culture, language and people.
We acknowledge the right of all individuals to own their own land.
We require chapters however to deed all land owned to the nation so that it may be kept in perpetuity by all the Cherokee descendants and not lost again.
ARTICLE X: on the use of our tribal lands by non Indian charities, churches, or businesses
Our land was surreptitiously taken and outright stolen. There is plenty of other land for those organizations of a non Cherokee nature to exist on, therefore, we prohibit the use of any of our land by anyone other than a Constitutional Cherokee. This includes businesses, charities, churches and denominations that are not headquartered on our land and are not comprised of 100% Constitutional Cherokee membership and leadership.
If our members wish to participate in these organizations, they may do so by travelling to outside our tribal lands. ONE Embassy for other nations and tribes may be stationed in proximity to our lands at the expense and total responsibility of that nation's or tribe's own governing body, provided that this land not exceed 1/4 of an acre in size.
The placement of such an embassy must first be approved by the Constitutional Cherokee national tribal government, and this privilege can be revoked at any time by our leadership, however, once an embassy has been established, the land on which it sits can never be sold, leased or otherwise distributed to any other entity and this must be included in the wording on the deed of the land, also must be stated that a lapse of use of the land by the entity by which it was established of greater than 3 years is an automatic forfeiture of the land to the Constitutional Cherokee who will then take possession of it freely and without encumbrance.
Religious entities may only operate within our homeland if led solely by our enrolled members.
At no time shall any member, whether that person be a member by documentation or by blood or by DNA or any other method, at no time shall any member of the Constitutional Cherokee engage in, host, particpate in, or otherwise endorse or encourage any native american indian ceremony that is not indigenous to the southeastern homeland. This includes the prohibition of the festival known as pow wow and any pow wow type event within the historic homeland.
Members shall certainly be allowed and free to participate in pow wow that is held outside of the historic homeland of the southeast or outside of the western homeland of the former IT of the Cherokee as a way of joining with others for whom the pow wow is their tradition and ceremony but the pow wow is not the tradition of the southeast and is not to be commemorated within the southeast by any member of the Constitutional Cherokee.
This is not because we feel pow wow is wrong. It is only improper for the southeastern homeland because the southeastern tradition is stomp, and not pow wow and we honor our heritage by doing OUR dances and our songs, not the dances and songs of others.
We may travel outside of our historic homeland boundaries and participate in a pow wow with friendly nations as gesture of goodwill, but this should not be construed as to mean that we view pow wow as traditional for the Cherokee people.
We acknowledge the right of all individuals to own their own land.
However, we also are aware that a secure Land base is necessary for protecting our culture, language and people. Those who own land within the historic homeland are advised that if it becomes necessary for them to sell it, that whenever possible, they only sell to enrolled members of the Constitutional Cherokee in order that land is gained and not lost again.
