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BIA disputes tribe’s removal of feds from constitutional process By TEDDYE SNELLTahlequah Daily Press Smith believes the tribe’s Supreme Court ruling trumps any BIA authority.
“The Cherokee Nation Supreme Court spoke clearly that the BIA has no authority to approve the Cherokee Nation Constitution,” said Smith in a press release. “If the BIA has its way, the Cherokee Nation cannot even amend our own constitution. This is contrary to federal policy and court decisions handed down time after time over the last 30 years. It is insulting and wrong, and we will take all the appropriate steps to defend our nationhood and right to self-determination ... As Cherokee people, we must stand behind the order of our own Supreme Court.” 
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