About Eagle-Tech
Eagle-Tech Systems (ETS) is a 100% tribally owned Computer Services Company with over 30-years experience in delivering Information Technology (IT) solutions. Originally started in 1972 as an internal IT department by the local tribal government, it was renamed ETS in January 2004. The ETS office is located on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation in North Central Oregon.
About The Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs
The Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation is a confederation of three Indian tribes organized pursuant to the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934. The Tribe has both a Constitution and Bylaws approved pursuant to Section 16 of the Act (25 USC 476) and a federal corporate charter issued pursuant to Section 17 of the Act (25 USC 477). In both capacities it is governed by an 11 member tribal council. The Tribe has approximately 4500 members. Its lands include 640,000 acres within the reservation boundaries, and some thousands more acreage off reservation within its original lands ceded to the US Government in 1855. It has a variety of enterprises including a lumber mill, vacation resort, casino, composite materials manufacturing plant, museum, construction enterprise, credit enterprise, and hydroelectric power generation enterprise. Some of these are formed under the federal corporate charter and others, like Eagle-Tech Systems (ETS), are formed pursuant to provisions of the constitution.
Eagle-Tech Systems is not a corporation, partnership, LLC, LLP, sole proprietorship or other form of legal organization commonly used off the reservation. Rather, it is a unique entity formed under the Tribal Constitution that has many of the attributes of the most common forms of business organizations. Article V.1 (o) of the Constitution empowers the Tribal Council "to charter subordinate organizations for economic purposes and to regulate the activities of all cooperative associations of members of the Confederated Tribes." Pursuant to this provision the Tribal Council, by resolution, has chartered Eagle-Tech Systems as a "subordinate organization for economic purposes." Under the charter it has a separate legal existence and is governed by a board of directors appointed by the Tribal Council. It is managed on a day to day basis by a General Manager selected by the board of directors. As a legal entity it can be described as a "subordinate organization of the Warm Springs Tribe chartered for economic purposes by the Tribal Council of the Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation pursuant to the provisions of its Constitution adopted pursuant to the provisions of Section 16 of the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934".
Under IRS regulations C7871(A)(1), Federally Recognized Tribes such as Warm Springs have equal status as State Governments. State Governments are Non-Profit entities equivalent to 501(c)(3) entities. While ETS has been chartered for "economic purposes" and functions as a business, it is a Non-Profit organization.
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