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4. That if any future legislation to confer law and order administration to the various states be considered, that it provide language to make it optional with reservations affected. If tribes wish to maintain their own law and order codes that they be provided with adequate appropriations. Many tribal groups still maintain their own law and order codes and their own law enforcement. Whereas, on other jurisdictions, some tribes would welcome the conferring of jurisdiction on the several states over offenses committed by or against Indians on Indian reservations.

During the 80th Congress, H. R. 4725 was introduced in Congress without an "optional" clause. 

Many tribes feel that by accepting the legislation that would confer jurisdiction of maintaining law and order to the several states, they would be surrendering some of the provisions protecting them in their, treaties, agreements and statutes. It is another means through which the Federal Government would find a way to release itself from its moral and legal obligations.

Acceptance of law and order administration on Indian reservations under the various states would violate federal treaties and agreements, disrupt tribal administration of law and order, and would be a retreat from established Federal policy. 

The right to local self-government and the right to be free from the obligation of State laws while on their own reservations are rights upon which most Indian tribes have insisted and which have been guaranteed to them in treaties and should not be abrogated.

5. The Indian liquor law should be repealed in order that the philosophy of the country that all men are equal can be upheld.

Many tribal groups throughout the country have asked for the repeal of the present liquor laws affecting Indians.

Legislation should provide for the repeal of the Federal law prohibiting the purchase or consumption of alcohol by Indians off Indian land or reservations. It should also include the repeal of the federal law prohibiting the consumption, transportation and sale of alcohol on Indian land or reservations, and in its stead provide for the prohibition or consumption, transportation or sale, or any of them of alcohol on any Indian land or reservation where groups of Indians, by popular or community vote so decide. It would mean that Indians, through their representative tribal governing bodies or governments, would be vested with the right and authority to decide and enforce through local option whether or not they shall not drink.

6. Oppose relinquishment of tribal status through an "emancipation" act as proposed by bills like H. R. 1113 which failed to pass after being considered and proposed in the 80th Congress.

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