RESOLUTION

WHEREAS, the Tribal Council of the Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation may authorize payments out of any available portion of the foregoing $7,500,000 for the per capita interest of any tribal member in Tribal assets in consideration for the relinquishment by said members in behalf of himself, his heirs or assigns of all claims to any future Tribal rights income and assets.

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, by the Red Butte - Charging Eagle District of the Fort Berthold Reservation, State of North Dakota, this day duly assembled, held at Charging Eagle, North Dakota, on this 25th day of October, 1951 A. D.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the above Point Four of the Tribal Council resolution An Act signed and approved by the Secretary of the Interior be am- ended to read as follows:

WHEREAS, the Tribal Council of the Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation may authorize payment out of any available portion of ': the foregoing $7,500,000. That it is the desire of the Three Affiliated Tribes after intensive study that the Tribal Council shall authorize percapita payment of their pro rata share plus the interest to each enrolled member of the Three Affiliated Tribes of Fort Berthold Reservation, State of North Dakota.

THEREFORE BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Tribal Council; the Commissioner of Indian Affairs; North Dakota delegation in the Senate and the House of Representatives and all interested people be advised of the above decision  for their approval hereto embodied in the following sections of this resolution:

Section 1. The remainder of more or less residual of 450,000 acres of the Fort Berthold Reservation shall hereafter remain forever , non-taxation in accordance to supreme law of the United States that reads: "That at the beginning and for indefinite time into the future the American Indians paid their land tax. Indian tribes surrendered large areas of land in exchange for smaller areas plus immunity from the land tax and exemption from the sovereignty of local political subdivisions."

Section 2. That mineral rights above and below the surface of

the lands, including the inundations of the Garrison Dam, to be held

and retained forever by the Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation, State of North Dakota.

Section 3. That language portion of the Tribal Council resolution worded as follows: "For the per capita interest of any tribal member in Tribal assets in consideration for the relinquishment by any said member in behalf of himself, his heirs or assigns of all claims to any future Tribal right income or assets." Hereby stricken out by," vote of the Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation State of North Dakota.

Section 4. That the members of the Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation whose degree of blood less than one-fourth  Indian shall be excluded from the rolls and future benefits of the Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation, State of North Dakota.

THEREFORE BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that copies and minutes of this resolution be sent to all interested people and officials of the United States of America.

In witness whereof we have here unto affixed our signature in official manner.

S/ Justin Spotted Bear

Chairman-

S/ Victor Young Bear

Secretary

Resolution Committee

S/ Victor Young Bear Chairman

S/ Justin Spotted Bear Secretary

Little Missouri District

S/ James H. Eagle .

S/ Philip Atkins

S/ Charles Burr