59.02.010 Purpose

(a) The purpose of this title is to:

(1) protect the people, culture, and natural resources of the Tribe and the Tribe's future generations from unauthorized scientific research; and,

(2) to reduce any adverse effects of human subject research and related activities on the Tribe and its People; and

(3) to ensure that researchers recognize the Tribe's control of research activities and ownership of all data and information generated or produced by such research; and,

(4) to establish and provide a statutory basis for a process to review and govern any research, collection, database, or publication undertaken on the Reservation.

(b) All research activities conducted on the Reservation must comply with this Act.

(c) The Tribe reserves its right, through its inherent sovereign authority and its police power, to exclude individuals from the Reservation and to deny permission and access for any research activities whatsoever for any violations of this Act.

(d) The Tribe finds that it is in its best interests to establish a research review mechanism to prevent the continued abuses, and to protect the people's traditional knowledge and properties, and thereby to ensure our rights to continue to practice traditional lifeway's for our long term survival.