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The Federal government has no right or authority to limit the, manner in which Indian tribes organize their governments. Federal law should ensure that the Federal trust responsibilities include primarily an obligation to protect the right of Indian tribes to continue to exist as sovereign independent self-governing bodies. The Secretary of the Interior and the Bureau of Indian Affairs should have no authority over the actions of tribal governments except in the exercise of trust responsibility. Those jurisdictional laws which limit, impede or impair tribal government powers, such as Public Law 83-280, Assimilative Crimes Act and others, must be repealed, amended or clarified. Those Federal statutes, regulations and policies which do not recognize Indian tribes as independent units of governments for purposes of full participation in all Federal programs must be amended, repealed or clarified in order to achieve tribal participation in such programs completely independent of the states and as truly independent governments.