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Constitution of the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians, 2005

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TypeLegal instrument
Date2005-02-01
WithinBeaver Island archipelago
ErasModern era
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Legal instrument
Date
2005-02-01
Eras
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Concepts
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Summary

The held 2005 Constitution of the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians (LTBB) is a contemporary tribal governing document. In its preamble, LTBB names the Beaver Islands among nine historic Odawa bands included in the single governmental body; its membership section also lists Payzhickwaywedung – Beaver Island among Ogemuk or residency references.

Evidence and limits

This source records LTBB’s own constitutional language, its governance framework, and its references to the Beaver Islands. It is not a nineteenth- century treaty text, a map of present jurisdiction or title, a complete membership roll, or evidence that every historical name, person, or treaty actor maps one-to-one onto a current institution.

The Constitution references the 1836 and 1855 treaties in defining terms, but those references do not independently establish the geographic scope, legal effect, or present application of any individual treaty provision. Such claims require the treaty text and appropriate legal or tribal-authored contextual sources.

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Constitution of the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians, 2005 — p. 1
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  1. Constitution of the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians, 2005 — p. 11
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  31. Constitution of the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians, 2005 — p. 3131
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  38. Constitution of the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians, 2005 — p. 3838
  39. Constitution of the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians, 2005 — p. 3939

Sources

  1. Held tribal governing document. Its preamble names the Beaver Islands among the nine historic Odawa bands included within the single governmental body; it also names Payzhickwaywedung – Beaver Island in the membership Ogemuk/residency list. The record preserves LTBB’s present constitutional statement and does not treat it as a one-to-one identity resolution for every historical treaty name, individual, territory, or political actor.
    documents · ltbb_constitution
  2. Project provenance sidecar for the LTBB Constitution.
    Records the public LTBB source URL, retrieval timestamp, checksum, 213,266-byte file size, and public tribal-governing-document status. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
    documents · ltbb_constitution.provenance

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Beaver Island Archive, “Constitution of the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians, 2005”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/documents/ltbb-constitution-2005/, accessed [date], citing Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians, *Constitution of the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians*, adopted 1 February 2005. (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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