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Article VI - Officers

Section 1. The officers of the National Congress of American Indians shall be a President, a first Vice President, a second Vice President, a Recording Secretary, a Treasurer, and fifteen councilmen duly elected by a majority vote of members of the National Congress of American Indians in convention. There shall be an executive council which shall have authority to act for the National Congress of American Indians between conventions. The Executive Council shall consist of the duly elected and the fifteen councilmen. The Councilmen shall serve for a term of three years, five to be elected at each convention. the Councilmen shall serve from the adjournment of the convention where they are elected until the adjournment of the convention where their successors are elected. Only persons of Indian ancestry shall hold office.
Section 2. Term. The term of office of elected officers or Councilmen shall be three years, and no officer or Councilman shall serve more than one term, except that by a two-thirds cote of members at a convention an officer or Councilman may be re-elected to succeed himself or herself in the same office. 
Section 3. Only dues-paying members and members of dues-paying chapters or tribes may hold office.
Article VII - Executive Council
Section 1. Powers. The Executive Council shall exercise the following powers:
   a. To organize for business and to regulate its own procedures.
   b. The Executive Council shall appoint an Executive Director from the membership of the National Congress of American Indians, and an attorney as counsel from within or without the membership, who shall serve as permanent officers or as long as their services are satisfactory to assure continuity of policies and consistency of action. It is not necessary that the attorney be of Indian ancestry, but the Executive Director must be of Indian ancestry.
   c. To fix such salaries of officers and subordinates as may be necessary.
   d. To appoint subordinate personnel, committees, and representatives.
   e. To establish requirements for obtaining and holding membership in the National Congress, and to great charters therefor.
   f. To accept gifts, bequests, and contributions from any source.
   g. To appropriate funds of the National Congress for expenses of the officers, and for such other purposes as may be necessary for the successful conduct of the business of the National Congress or the Executive Council.
   h. To fill vacancies in any officership of the Executive Council for unexpired terms of office.
   i. Otherwise to speak and act for and on behalf of the National Congress concerning its affairs, to implements and effecutate resolutions adopted, or to delegate such power to subordinate bodies and to the Executive Director.

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