Tribal Council & Board Roles & Responsibilities; Rapid City, SD; October 03-05, 2023

This session provides a  comprehensive training on constitutional principles, tribal governance, trust doctrines, federal appropriations laws, and laws that pertain to tribal nations and tribal organizations. 

Attendees will receive hands-on training on constitutional principles, tribal governance, trust doctrines, federal appropriations laws, and laws that pertain to tribal nations and tribal organizations.  Participants will learn how to separate politics from business, doctrine of segregation of duties, development of policy, the legal implications of their decisions.  They will learn the fundamentals of finance and accounting.

What Will I Learn?

• Your role as an officer and member of the tribal council or board of directors
• Federal Indian law and constitutional principles
• Overview of the Indian Reorganization Act (IRA)
• Importance of separation of powers, Rule of Law, Tribal Sovereignty
• Importance of separating politics from business
• How tribal codes and ordinances, council resolutions, policies work
• How Articiles of Incorporation & By-Laws work
• Legal implications of your actions as council and board members
• Importance of tribal management systems
• Importance of financial reports, audits, audit findings, audit resolutions
• Overview of how the federal government works
• Federal appropriations law and process (how federal budgets affect your organization) and how you can have input
• Developing and monitoring operating budgets
• Importance of strategic planning
• Importance of having a Code of Ethics
• Lessons on leadership and basic supervision
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Who Should Attend?

Members of tribal councils, members of tribal boards of directors (health boards, education boards, school boards, public safety boards, tribal enterprise boards, board members of non-profit organizations); and tribal council secretaries or board secretaries.