Tribal Council

The Klamath Tribal Council is comprised of four executive positions (Chairman, Vice-Chairman, Secretary, and Treasurer). These 4 positions are full-time. The other six positions are known as ‘Members-at-Large’ and serve as part-time positions.

Elections, per the Klamath Tribal Constitution are held every three years, making this Council the May 2025- May 2028 Elected Governing Body of the Klamath Tribes of Oregon. Elected to serve as the Governing body for over 5,888 enrolled Klamath Tribal Members.

The Mission of the Klamath Tribes is to protect, preserve, and enhance the spiritual, cultural, and physical values and resources of the Klamath, Modoc, and Yahooskin-Paiute Peoples by maintaining the customs and heritage of our ancestors.   To establish a comprehensive unity by fostering the enhancement of spiritual and cultural values through a government whose function is to protect the human and cultural resources, treaty rights, and to provide for the development and delivery of social and economic opportunities for our People through effective leadership.

naanok ?ans naat sat’waYanaat ciiwapk diceew’a 
“We help each other; We will live good”  
(This is the counsel from our elders)

Who are we?

We are the Klamath Tribes- the Klamath, the Modoc and the Yahooskin-Paiute people, known as mukluks and numu (the people). We have lived in the Klamath Basin of Oregon, from time beyond memory. Our legends and oral history tell about when the world and the animals were created, when the animals and Gmok’am’c – the Creator – sat together and discussed the creation of man. If stability defines success, our presence here has been, and always will be, essential to the well-being of our homeland and those who abide here.

We are a sovereign Nation. Treaty of 1864.