Ways We (The MOWA Choctaw Indians
of Alabama) Have Exercised Our Tribal
Sovereignty
Chief Framon Weaver
Mobile County 1922
 Adopted Tribal
Constitution and
Established Three Forms of Government.
 Passed
ordinance to create Housing
Authority
 Lobbied
State of
Alabama to recognize
all tribal lands owned
by the tribe to be
declared reservation
property.
 Passed Tribal
ordinance to create
Police Department
 Lobbied
State of
Alabama for our right
to establish and
operate our Police
Department.
 Passed Tribal
ordinance to create
Police Department

Negotiated an agreement with the State of
Alabama to establish our Community
Service Block Grant and Low Income Home
Energy Assistance Program.
 As
a result of litigation involving an
incinerator on tribal reservation, the court
recognized our right to issue our own
permits.
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The court recognized our right to build on property owned
by the tribe without obtaining building permits or licenses
from the County.
In regards to the Indian Child Welfare Act, we are
considered the same as a federally recognized tribe.