CHEROKEE WARRIORS
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PREAMBLE
FOREWARD
Cherokee Warriors Society: A society for Genealogical Research, Preservation of Documentation, maintaining ascendancy charts, and creating and maintaining Prospective Members based on research- We are warriors of today - finding our people and returning them home.
Fore word:
The Warrior’s Society is to be an incorporated auxiliary Society of the Constitutional Cherokee.
They are to be incorporated as a political lobbying entity in agreement with whatever state and federal laws are in existence so that the community chapters, state chapters, and national level to which they are amenable may continue to function as non profit organizations and the Warriors may then be able to promote and protect the concerns, interests, and wishes of the Constitutional Cherokee.
Organization:
Each community chapter that has interested members, should organize and incorporate a Warrior’s Society in accord with the Constitution and Bylaws contained in the Handbook of the Constitutional Cherokee.
The Warriors Society is composed of enrolled Constitutional Cherokee members who willingly give of their time and energy to preserve our people, our historic home land and our heritage.
There are four primary categories for membership and activity in the Warriors Society: Military, Land defenders, People Defenders, Environment Defenders.
There are three levels of organization of the Warriors Society: Community, State, and National.
The Warrior’s Society shall remain amenable to the appropriate level of government of the Constitutional Cherokee.
Purpose:
The Warriors Society exists to honor our Constitutional Cherokee members who have given their time and in some cases, their lives, to military service and to preserve and to restore our people, our historic home land and our heritage.
NAME:
The incorporated Warrior’s Societies will be known by the name of the Chapter that incorporates them as well as shall include “.... Warrior’s Society of the Constitutional Cherokee”
(For the purpose of an example, The Tennessee State Chapter’s Society shall be known as “Tanasi Warrior’s Society of the Constitutional Cherokee” and for the purpose of an example, the Red Clay local Chapter’s Society would be named as “Red Clay Community Warriors Society of the Constitutional Cherokee)
PREAMBLE
BYLAWS OF THE WARRIORS SOCIETY
MISSION STATEMENT
PURPOSE
COMMUNITY CHAPTER
ARTICLE 1: MEMBERSHIP
These requirements contained herein are applicable to every level of organization.
1- Military Warriors Membership: Active servicemen and women and veterans of any branch of military service as well as any retired or former Chief in good standing from any level of government within the Constitutional Cherokee. We honor these who placed themselves in danger for our sakes. Any service person currently serving or who formerly served and was honorably discharged is eligible to join the Warriors Society and be recognized as such a member without being required to fulfill any other service of this organization but may be involved in the other aspects of the society if they so desire. Also, all former chiefs in good standing, retired or emeritus who are not currently in a position of leadership in the government at any level are eligible to join. There is no membership fee for these members who meet these requirements of military or government service.
2- Defenders of the Land Membership: Any active member of the Constitutional Cherokee who is willing to take this responsibility may join. These Active Volunteers who will regularly walk the boundary lines of our community chapter’s grounds, of state chapters boundaries, and of national boundaries and report on their condition; this also includes walking over village sites, burial sites and other sites of historical significance and reporting on their condition as well as alerting our members to threats against these sites so that action may be taken. These volunteers document historic structures such as mounds and petroglyphs as well and make reports to the appropriate government so that these may be guarded and preserved.
3-Defenders of the People Membership: Any active member of the Constitutional Cherokee who is willing to take this responsibility may join. These Active Volunteers who will regularly search genealogical records and repositories for the purpose of documenting every historical reference to any Cherokee person by name and recording who is mentioned and where the source is for the information as well as to make a copy of the information so that others may have access to the information. Another function of this branch is to also endeavor to document every descendant from those mentioned Cherokees and report that so that others may make the connections to their ancestors.
This category of membership may also include legal representatives such as mediators, lawyers, and judges.
4- Defenders of the environment Membership: Any active member of the Constitutional Cherokee who is willing to take this responsibility may join. These Active Volunteers will research and document species of plants and animals that were native to the Americas (north, south, and central) and would have been available through trade prior to the 1700’s and determine and to also maintain a list of animals and plants deemed to be invasive to the southeastern portion of the United States even if available prior to the 1700’s and to encourage and promote the safe removal of these species that have been declared as invasive species to be completely removed from the historic homeland. This list is to be provided or available to every member of the Constitutional Cherokee so that they too may remove these species from any land they occupy. Another aspect is to encourage the conservation and promulgation of species that were native to the Southeast, and especially to return the domestic species of the historical Cherokee pony, historical Cherokee Dog, and wild species such as the native trout, the eastern elk, bison, red wolf, and other indigenous species to our homeland.
Of particular concern is to restore the ecological system of Mountain Cane to be restored as the vast areas of Cane breaks that were described as existing across the southeast and native flowering plants as described by Bertram and other early botanists.
ARTICLE 2: ACTIVITIES & FUNDRAISING & BUDGETS
ARTICLE 3: COOPERATION WITH LOCAL AUTHORITIES & LANDOWNERS
ARTICLE 4: DEPARTMENTS & DUTIES
ARTICLE 5: LEADERSHIP & OFFICERS
ARTICLE 6: ADMINISTRATION AND SUPERVISION
ARTICLE 7: ASSEMBLIES AND CONVENTIONS
STATE CHAPTER
ARTICLE 1: MEMBERSHIP
ARTICLE 2: ACTIVITIES & FUNDRAISING & BUDGETS
ARTICLE 3: COOPERATION WITH LOCAL AUTHORITIES & LANDOWNERS
ARTICLE 4: DEPARTMENTS & DUTIES
ARTICLE 5: LEADERSHIP & OFFICERS
ARTICLE 6: ADMINISTRATION AND SUPERVISION
ARTICLE 7: ASSEMBLIES AND CONVENTIONS
NATIONAL CHAPTER
ARTICLE 1: MEMBERSHIP
ARTICLE 2: ACTIVITIES & FUNDRAISING & BUDGETS
ARTICLE 3: COOPERATION WITH LOCAL AUTHORITIES & LANDOWNERS
ARTICLE 4: DEPARTMENTS & DUTIES
ARTICLE 5: LEADERSHIP & OFFICERS
ARTICLE 6: ADMINISTRATION AND SUPERVISION
ARTICLE 7: ASSEMBLIES AND CONVENTIONS
