Article XII - National Boundaries
ARTICLE XiI: HISTORIC HOMELAND BOUNDARIES
The historic homeland boundaries are to be interpreted by members of a committed established by the National Council of Chiefs.
The recognized boundaries fall within the following areas that are known currently as these states:
Alabama, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, North Carolina, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia.
The currently recognized boundaries of our original homeland must match as closely as possible to the farthest boundaries of the original homeland as indicated on the maps of 1900 compiled by James Mooney and currently held by the Bureau of American Ethnology and decisions concerning disputes about such boundaries are to be considered as final until such time as an older, more accurate map were to be discovered and approved by the National Council of Chiefs. We instruct the National Council of Chiefs and their appointed committee to consider evidence that Cherokees dwelt on the opposite side of rivers that formed edges of the boundaries of this map in their decisions about including these areas to a limited degree within the historic homeland so that the fullest extent of our historic boundaries may be ascertained and protected AS THE HISTORIC HOMELAND OF THE CHEROKEE.
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