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Rules Committee authorizes limited waiver of sovereign immunity tied to Native American Agriculture Fund grant agreement
Summary
The committee approved a resolution authorizing a limited waiver of Cherokee Nation sovereign immunity in connection with a Native American Agriculture Fund grant agreement and amended the agenda to add resource-committee items; the motion passed by voice vote with no opposition.
At its Dec. 15 meeting, the Cherokee Nation Rules Committee voted to authorize a limited waiver of sovereign immunity tied to a Native American Agriculture Fund grant agreement.
Councilman Clifton Hughes presented the resolution authorizing the waiver and the committee approved it by voice vote with no recorded opposition. The motion followed a separate procedural motion to amend the agenda to add two items from the resource committee; that amendment passed on voice vote as well.
The committee did not provide detailed funding amounts or terms in the meeting transcript; committee members recorded the approvals and the Chair directed the litigation ratification (from a separate motion) to Tribal Council later that evening. The transcript does not include a roll-call vote or named individual vote tallies for the waiver resolution.
Next steps: committee actions will be forwarded to Tribal Council for formal consideration and any required documentation for the grant agreement will follow the Tribe’s contracting and grant procedures.
