Terry D Cornell Participated in the Annual Tribal Council Meeting of the Cheyenne Arapaho Tribe of Oklahoma

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Terry D Cornell Participated in the Annual Tribal
Council Meeting of the Cheyenne Arapaho Tribe of
Oklahoma
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• Terry D Cornell is a recognized and highly
  distinguished veteran, who has served as the
  member for various organizations. He is a member
  of the Cheyenne Arapaho Tribe of Oklahoma and is
  also the part of Arapaho Indian.
• The American Indian tribes are at times described
  as nations within a nation and even some tribes
  call themselves nations or people, instead of
  tribes. Their constitution considers them
  separate government and these tribes have their
  own laws and government. In general, the states
  do not interfere with tribal governments.

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• On 7 October 2017, Terry D Cornell held the
  annual tribal council meeting of the Cheyenne and
  Arapaho Tribe of Oklahoma.
• The tribal council has all the tribal members of
  age over 18 and the meeting took place at the
  Community Center at Concho, Oklahoma.
• The purpose of this tribal council meeting was to
  make changes and significant laws that effect the
  Cheyenne Arapaho Nation - A sovereign nation in
  the United States.

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• During this meeting, Terry introduced a number of
  resolutions that were practically adopted by the
  tribal council.
• Among them, one of the resolutions he proposed
  was to make a change in the Cheyenne Arapaho
  Constitution for electing the Tribal Judges and
  Superior Court Judges as an alternative of
  Executive appointments.
• Certainly, this resolution witnessed several
  hundred votes in its favor.

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• The next resolution Terry D Cornell introduced
  was the audit of Tribal Members families to
  ensure that all family members were registered
  with the tribe.
• This resolution was also passed by numerous votes
  and there were about 450 tribal members at this
  yearly meeting.