Natural Resource Commission

and to regulate the wise utilization of natural resources within the Tribe's jurisdiction in ways that respect the Anishinaabe traditional spiritual and physical relationship with the land and waters and the resources they contain; and to exercise the powers and authorities described in the Natural Resource Commission Ordinance or other ordinances adopted by Tribal Council related to the regulation, use or preservation of the Tribe's land and natural resources.

The purposes of the Natural Resource Commission are to honor, promote, and maintain the Tribe's traditional physical and spiritual relationship to the natural environment, and its Tribal Members' traditional, subsistence and commercial uses of the resources within the lands reserved by the Tribe's ancestors and the territory ceded in the 1836 Treaty of Washington;