Tribal Health Ordinance (Traditional and Indigenopathic Spiritual Medicine and IRB Approved Research

The Deep South Cherokee Keetoowah Nation (DSCKN)
Tribal Traditional and Ministerial Health Protection Act

This ordinance affirms the sovereign right of the Deep South Cherokee Keetoowah Nation to regulate and protect the practice of traditional, indigenopathic medicine, spiritual cultural, and ministerial healing within/and under its jurisdiction, in alignment with foundational ancestral customs, healing and spiritual principles.  The DSCKN has also sanctioned the implementation of Spiritual Scientific Care/Counseling Research™️ which has been vetted and approved by DSCKN. This involves the evolving methodologies which allow healing protocols rooted in our spiritual foundations to be integrated  into the healing equation with use of modern technology. 

This ordinance applies to:

• All tribal members on tribal lands. In patient, out patient

• All persons regardless of tribal status, but through contract and trust who agree to partake through private membership association, trust, tribal charter and binding private convent with the DSCKN on and off DSCKN land as an outreach extension of our charter. In patient, out patient off tribal land.
   
• All persons operating as healers, spiritual guides, or wellness ministers under tribal recognition.
   

• Traditional Healing: Ceremonial, herbal, energetic, and all mind, body & spiritual practices whose roots can be found to be associated with in tribal history and tradition.
   
• Indigenopathic Spiritual Medicine Healer: A individual or group recognized under our tribal law. This aspect is based on assessment, training & recognition under our charter to provide indigenopathic spiritual, holistic, integrative care as well as integrative medical and Spiritual Scientific Care/Counseling Research™️.
   
• Non-Allopathic Healing: Any modality not licensed under corporate based state medical boards.
   

The Tribal Council / Tribal Health Committee may issue:

• Certificates of recognition for Indigenopathic Spiritual Medicine healers. This includes when applicable, certification to conduct health research under tribal and federal law.
   
• Ministerial licenses for Spiritual Scientific Care/Counseling Research™️ caregivers.
   
• Non-transferrable ID cards as evidence of tribal health authority approval.
   

Authorized practitioners may:

• Provide Indigenopathic Spiritual Medicine, cultural, spiritual, or traditional services to tribal, tribal charter & non tribal members .
   
• Offer herbal guidance, spiritual ceremonies, sacramental offering, energy work Spiritual Scientific Care/Counseling Research™️. 

• Body work in all forms of touch and manipulations, chanting, indigenopuncture, sacramental gifts from the mother, use of stones, directional path healing, foods, herbs, minerals in its original foundation and utilizing implements of modern technology.

• Various forms of traditional methodologies implemented by tribal nations.  

• All procedure traditionally based on tribal protocols and practices, in its ancient and/or modernized form which existed before creation of state licensure. These historical protocols are still allowable under our tribal law. 

Practitioners shall not:

• Conduct major surgeries, prescribe pharmaceutical drugs, and/or other non-tribally approved procedures or diagnose disease unless specifically trained and licensed by recognized entities.
   

All of our recognized practitioners under this ordinance are protected by:

• The tribe’s sovereign immunity.
   
• The U.S Constitution's First Amendment -Freedom of Religion (Case law support: Wisconsin v. Yoder (1972) and Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye v. City of Hialeah (1993) affirm that spiritual practice and religious self-determination are constitutionally protected.

• Tenth Amendment – Reserved Powers

• Fourteenth Amendment – Equal Protection