19-1-101. SOVEREIGN POWER TO REGULATE THE RESERVATION ENVIRONMENT.

The power to regulate the Reservation environment is an inherent and essential part of the authority of any reservation tribal government. This power is therefore an aspect of the retained sovereignty of Indian tribes except where it has been limited or withdrawn by federal law. The Rosebud Sioux Tribe is a sovereign Indian tribe organized pursuant to the Act of June 18, 1934, 48 Stat. 984, as amended, and governed pursuant to a Constitution and Bylaws ratified on November 23, 1935, and approved by the Secretary of the Interior, Harold L. Ickes, on December 16, 1935 as amended from time to time thereafter. Pursuant to the Constitution and Bylaws, as amended, the Rosebud Sioux Tribal Council is the governing body of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe. This Title is enacted pursuant to the inherent sovereign tribal powers expressly delegated to the Tribal Council in Article IV, Section 1 (c), (h), (i), (k), (m), (t) and (u) of the Tribal Constitution, which authorize the Tribal Council to manage and otherwise deal with tribal lands and property, to exclude by ordinance from the restricted lands of the Reservation person not legally entitled to reside therein, to promulgate and enforce ordinances providing for the maintenance of law and order and the administration of justice on the Reservation, to regulate the conduct of trade and the use and disposition of property upon the Reservation, to regulate tribal agencies and tribal officials, and to delegate to subordinate boards or tribal officials the foregoing powers, subject to review by the Tribal Council.