Welcome to the official website of the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nation, also known as the Three Affiliated Tribes.  We are pleased to offer this service to our enrolled members, visitors, and guests.

MISSION STATEMENT:  The Three Affiliated Tribes will provide to the Tribe and people, maximum quality services, by being responsible, accountable, respectful, caring, and will incorporate the traditional values of our elders and ancestors.

Three Affiliated Tribes Business Council
Back row, from left: Councilman Frank Whitecalfe, White Shield Representative; Councilman Mervin Packineau, Parshall/Lucky Mound Representative; Councilman Malcolm Wolf, New Town Representative; Councilman Barry Benson, Twin Buttes Representative.

United States Department of the Interior
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Ft. Berthold Agency
PO Box 370
New Town, North Dakota 58763

NOTICE OF SECRETARIAL ELECTION

The Great Plains Regional Director, under delegated authority from the Secretary of the Interior has authorized the Superintendent of the Fort Berthold Agency to conduct a Secretarial Election under regulations pursuant to 25 CFR PART 81, to allow eligible tribal members 18 years of age, or older, prior to the date of election, to vote to accept or reject proposed amendments of the Three Affiliated Tribes Constitution and Bylaws.
The Three Affiliated Tribal Business council passed resolutions requesting the Secretary of the Interior to schedule a secretarial election to amend the Tribes Constitution and bylaws as follows:

PROPOSED AMENDMENT
NO. 1

TO AMEND ARTICLE II SECTION(1); entitled, "MEMBERSHIP" as follows:

Current Language:

"1/4 total Indian blood provided that at least 1/8 is Mandan, Hidatsa, or Arikara

PROPOSED AMENDMENT
(changes)

"Any person born to any member of the Three Affiliated Tribes shall be eligible to membership" (lineal descendant)

PROPOSED AMENDMENT
NO. 2

TO AMEND ARTICLE II,
(Change)

To provide for the Secretary and the Treasurer of the Tribal Council to be elected at large along with the chairman, thereby increasing the tribal council seats from the existing seven (7), to nine (9) members;

This same amendment shall change Article III of the Tribes Bylaws-by automatically adjusting the quorum requirements for the council to conduct business from the Current quorum requirement of five (5) to a quorum requirement of seven (7) members, and,

This Amendment will also change the total number of council members necessary to call a special meeting from the current three (3), to five (5) accordingly.

Amendment 2; Will also provide that these amendments, if approved by the voters, will not take effect until 2010.

IN ORDER TO VOTE

You can fill out a registration form that you should receive in the mail, and return it to this office using and enclosed self-addressed envelope, or,

If you do not happen to receive a registration form in the mail, you may personally register at the Bureau of Indian Affairs Agency office in New Town North Dakota, on or before March 10, 2008 before 4:30 P.M.

ELECTION SCHEDULE

MHA Nation Oil Refinery

Meeting Times