---
kind: "section"
citation: "36 U.S.C. § 150402"
title: "36"
title_heading: "Patriotic and National Observances, Ceremonies, and Organizations"
number: "150402"
heading: "Purposes"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/36/150402"
units:
  - "Subtitle II — Patriotic and National Organizations"
  - "Part B — Organizations"
  - "Chapter 1504 — National American Indian Veterans, Incorporated"
---

# §150402. Purposes


The purposes of the [corporation](/usc/36/220501.md?p=b-7) are those stated in the articles of incorporation, constitution, and bylaws of the [corporation](/usc/36/220501.md?p=b-7), and include a commitment—

- (1) to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States while respecting the sovereignty of the American Indian Nations;
- (2) to unite under one body all American Indian veterans who served in the Armed Forces of United States;
- (3) to be an advocate on behalf of all American Indian veterans without regard to whether they served during times of peace, conflict, or war;
- (4) to promote social welfare (including educational, economic, social, physical, and cultural values and traditional healing) in the United States by encouraging the growth and development, readjustment, self-respect, self-confidence, contributions, and self-identity of American Indian veterans;
- (5) to serve as an advocate for the needs of American Indian veterans and their families and survivors in their dealings with all Federal and State government agencies;
- (6) to promote, support, and utilize research, on a nonpartisan basis, pertaining to the relationship between American Indian veterans and American society; and
- (7) to provide technical assistance to the Bureau of Indian Affairs regional areas that are not served by any veterans committee or organization or program by—
  - (A) providing outreach service to Indian Tribes in need; and
  - (B) training and educating Tribal Veterans Service Officers for Indian Tribes in need.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 118–31, div. E, title LI, § 5103(a), Dec. 22, 2023, 137 Stat. 935.)