Mohegan Tribe: Preamble Excerpt

We, The Mohegan Tribe of Indians of Connecticut answerable to our ancestors, in order to secure to ourselves and our descendants the management of our own affairs as a sovereign American Indian Nation, to ensure the maintenance of our basic human rights, to exercise our sovereign rights as a federally recognized Indian tribe, including the right of self-determination and self-governance, and to promote the general welfare of The Mohegan People, do hereby establish, adopt and proclaim this Constitution.