uasi citizens. be for act would not another 15 or so years. the indian citizenship act that made all native people u.s. citizens was not until 1924. there was no legal precedent for what it meant to be a native american and a u.s. citizen. we were figuring it out as we went. constitution was drafted in 1936. it was adopted in 1938. it was a constitution that was written by the bureau of indian affairs. it really left a lot of government control. they had to have final say over amendments and things like that. be recognizedto by the federal government as a sovereign nation, as a federally recognized native american tribe. it did not give us a whole lot of freedom to construct our laws and government the way we saw fit. ourselves in the early 2000's to completely restructure our constitution. we took the department interior out of it. we do not need to have approval to have a constitutional amendment. we created our legislative structure so that we had representation for tribal members not just here in oklahoma but nationwide. we look at the thi