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Tribal Restoration
This weekend marks the 25th anniversary of the restoration of tribal status for the Klamath tribes. A big celebration is underway already in Chiloquin to honor those who helped the Klamath, Modoc and Yahooskin tribes regain rights and benefits they lost in the early 1950's.  Federal Recognition5/17/2012
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Wappo Indians want to reclaim recognition, land
(California) -- Scott Gabaldon is an American Indian tribal leader without any land or, for that matter, an officially recognized tribe.
4/12/2012
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Aquinnah tribe celebrates federal recognition
(Massachusetts) -- Pounding drums, thoughtful prayer, bountiful food and joyous laughter of children. The Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) celebrated 25 years of...
3/29/2012
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Echo Hawk rules on Central Band of Cherokee
(Oklahoma) -- Assistant Secretary of Indian Affairs Larry Echo Hawk issued a final determination on March 23 regarding the Central Band of Cherokee’s petition for...
3/27/2012
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Echo Hawk’s Final Determination Denies Central Band of Cherokee Federal Status
(Washington D.C.) -- On March 26, Assistant Secretary-Indian Affairs Larry Echo Hawk released his final determination in regards to a petition by the Central Band of...
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Final Determination, So-Called Central Band Of Cherokee Are Not Indians
(Washington D.C.) -- On March 26, Assistant Secretary-Indian Affairs Larry Echo Hawk released his final determination in regards to a petition by the Central Band of...
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Attempted Native American Tribal Filing Raises Bankruptcy Law Questions
(New York) -- The Wall Street Journal reported this week on the fascinating case of an attempted bankruptcy filing by the Western Mohegan Tribe, a New York group that...
3/26/2012
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BIA issues final decision against Central Band of Cherokees
(Washington D.C.) -- The Bureau of Indian Affairs has issued a final determination against federal recognition for the Central Band of Cherokee, a group in Tennessee.
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Echo Hawk Issues Final Determination Regarding Central Band of Cherokee Petition
(Washington D.C.) -- Assistant Secretary-Indian Affairs Larry Echo Hawk today announced he has issued a final determination (FD) regarding the petition of the Central...
3/2/2012
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Wappo tribe wants Napa, Sonoma counties out of its federal lawsuit
(California) -- Alexander Valley’s Wappo Indian tribe wants to remove Sonoma and Napa counties from its lawsuit seeking federal recognition, arguing the counties...
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District 8 candidate opposes Lumbee recognition
(North Carolina) -- The Lumbee Tribe will lose a supporter of federal recognition if Vernon Robinson, a candidate for the GOP nomination for the District 8 congressional...
2/29/2012
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Lawsuit puts spotlight on divide within tribe / For Eastern Pequots, federal recognition dispute widens split
(Connecticut) -- A federal judge has ordered the refiling of a lawsuit in which the Historic Eastern Pequots - the Indian tribe formed in 2002 by the merger of the...
2/24/2012
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Unpaid legal fees to force Ulster tribe off property
(Connecticut) -- It wasn’t forged documents, unpaid taxes or failed casino dreams that ultimately doomed the Western Mohegan Tribe and Nation. The Greenfield Park...
2/21/2012
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Wappo wants counties out of recognition suit
(California) -- A local Indian tribe wants to push Napa and Sonoma counties out of its lawsuit against the federal government, arguing they’re disrupting the suit...
2/14/2012
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AG’s meeting with town leaders on Eastern Pequot suit cancelled
(Connecticut) -- Connecticut Attorney General George Jepsen’s planned meeting today with leaders of three Eastern Connecticut towns regarding a federal lawsuit by...
2/13/2012
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Eastern Pequot official calls for recall of tribal council
(Connecticut) -- Members of the Eastern Pequot Tribe say much of the tribal community is outraged by tribal Chairman Jim Cunha's disavowal of a lawsuit seeking...
2/6/2012
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Eastern Pequot tribe fighting for recognition
(Connecticut) -- The chief executives of Ledyard, North Stonington and Preston are scheduled to meet next week with state Attorney General George Jepsen to discuss the...
2/3/2012
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Judge's ruling boosts Wappo tribe's bid for recognition
(California) -- A federal judge has blocked Napa and Sonoma counties’ latest attempt to toss out a local Indian tribe’s lawsuit seeking federal recognition,...
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Wappo Tribe Effort To Restore Tribal Status
(California) -- Sonoma County's effort to prevent an Alexander Valley Indian tribe from regaining tribal status is being rejected. A federal judge ruled the county...
2/2/2012
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LETTER: Copia the perfect place for casino
(California) -- In a recent article, the Napa Register asked for comments from readers regarding the best possible use for the vacant Copia building (“Copia helped...
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Sonoma County barred from appealing Wappo Indians' tribal effort
(California) -- Sonoma County can't appeal a federal court ruling that lets Alexander Valley's Wappo Indians move ahead with their bid to regain tribal status, a...
1/17/2012
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Wappo tribe rebuts county’s court motion
(California) -- A local Indian tribe wants a federal judge to block Napa and Sonoma counties’ latest attempt to end the tribe’s bid for federal recognition....
1/13/2012
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Casino Talk Increases as Branch of Tejon Tribe Wins Federal Recognition
(California) -- A branch of the Tejon Indian Tribe has regained its place on the list of federally recognized tribes. Although the tribe entered into a treaty with the...
1/4/2012
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Central Valley tribe wins federal recognition
(California) -- A Central Valley Indian tribe can establish a reservation and receive U.S. government benefits after winning federal recognition.
1/3/2012
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Tejon tribe gains recognition, raising possibility of local casino
(California) -- The Tejon Indian tribe learned Tuesday it has gained federal recognition, which will mean big changes for members and that an Indian gaming casino is...
12/26/2011
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County fights tribe’s desire for federal recognition
(California) -- A legal battle between Napa and Sonoma counties and a local Indian tribe over its bid for federal recognition, and the counties’ fear it could lead...
12/15/2011
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Chinook Tribe ramps up new campaign for federal recognition
(Washington) -- For more than 150 years, the Chinook Indian Nation has struggled to obtain official recognition from the federal government. Exhausting many of their...
12/14/2011
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Local Salinan Indian tribe applies for federal recognition
(California) -- Seeking to “recapture” its history and heritage, the local Salinan Indian tribe has applied for recognition from the federal government....
12/5/2011
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Local Native American tribe seeks identity
(California) -- The Muwekma Ohlones, whose ancestral lands are in Pleasanton and throughout the Bay Area, have lost a federal lawsuit seeking recognition of their tribe...
12/1/2011
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Petition to bring attention to tribe’s plight fails
(Louisiana) -- A petition aimed at bringing attention to the United Houma Nation’s decades-long quest for federal recognition failed to get enough signatures to...
11/8/2011
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Group seeks federal status for ‘new’ Chippewa tribe
(Michigan) -- The Chippewa Nation of the Great Lakes has completed the first step to becoming a federally recognized Native American tribe, reports Joe Ireland of Oscoda.
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Napa, Sonoma continue to oppose Wappo recognition
(California) -- Despite a recent setback in their attempt to block federal recognition for an area Indian tribe, both Napa and Sonoma counties are still committed to the...
11/2/2011
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Eastern Pequots ask for review of BIA's reversal of recognition
(Connecticut) -- Six years after the federal government rescinded its recognition of the tribe, the Eastern Pequots are asking the secretary of the U.S. Department of...
10/25/2011
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Judge allows Wappos to continue quest to regain tribal status
(California) -- Alexander Valley’s Wappo Indians have won a victory in federal court, where a judge ruled Sonoma County can’t stop their bid to regain tribal status. The...
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Judge denies county’s request to dismiss Wappo claim
(California) -- A U.S. District Court judge has denied Napa County’s request to dismiss a local Indian tribe’s bid for federal recognition, a development tribal...
9/29/2011
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Court Tosses Tribal Recognition Bid
(California) -- A "smorgasbord" of claims by a group a San Francisco Bay Native Americans seeking tribal status has been tossed out in federal court, which...
8/31/2011
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Tribe Sues USA, Demanding Recognition
(Nevada) -- The Winnemucca Indian Colony sued the United States, which has refused to recognize it as a legitimate tribe 12 years after its chairman was killed on the...
8/26/2011
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Klamath Tribes fete 25 years of restored rights
(Oregon) -- It’s been a quarter of a century since the traditional hunting and fishing rights were restored to members of the Klamath Tribes.
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Tribal Restoration
(Oregon) -- This weekend marks the 25th anniversary of the restoration of tribal status for the Klamath tribes. A big celebration is underway already in Chiloquin to...
8/25/2011
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Klamath Tribes celebrate 25 years of restoration
(Oregon) -- It's been a quarter of a century since the traditional hunting and fishing rights were restored to members of the Klamath Tribes.
8/22/2011
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What makes a native American tribe?
(California) -- On a wet January night in northern California, Caleen Sisk-Franco gathered the Winnemem Wintu tribe for a healing in their prayer house, the sacred fire...
8/19/2011
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Mackinac Tribe seeks to reorganize
(Michigan) -- On August 8, 2011 the “Consolidated Group” of the Mackinac Tribe/Band of Chippewa and Ottawa Indian petitioned the Secretary of the Interior, to conduct a...
8/3/2011
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Monacans' Long Struggle May Be Over
(Virginia) -- The Monacan Indian Nation — based in Amherst County — has been down this path before. But the well worn road to federal recognition by the U.S. Congress...
8/1/2011
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Senate Committee Approves Webb Bill to Recognize Virginia Indian Tribes
(Washington D.C.) -- The Senate Committee on Indian Affairs today approved the “Indian Tribes of Virginia Federal Recognition Act of 2011” (S. 379) on July...
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Tribes prepare for 25th restoration anniversary
(Oregon) -- When the Klamath Tribes celebrate the 25th anniversary of restoration as a federally recognized tribe later this month, the celebration will be bittersweet.
7/31/2011
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Lumbee recognition gets bipartisan support
(Washington D.C.) -- Last week, much of the news out of Washington was about squabbling legislators, but there was some bipartisanship going as well.
7/30/2011
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Senate panel OKs Lumbee bill
(North Carolina) -- Scotland’s Lumbee Tribal representative called a Senate panel’s approval of a bill to grant federal recognition this week “welcome...
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U.S. Senate panel advances Lumbee recognition bill
(Washington D.C.) -- The Lumbee Recognition Act unanimously passed out of the U.S. Senate's Indian Affairs Committee on Thursday and now awaits a vote before the...
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Change the relationship
(Virginia) -- Considering the fact that they’re in the middle of a highly charged debate on whether and how to raise the nation’s debt ceiling, United States...
7/29/2011
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Monacans hopeful as federal recognition bill nears Senate vote
(Virginia) -- Amherst County’s Monacan Indian Nation members hope legislation that advanced Thursday in the U.S. Senate will bring them closer to a years-long...
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Senate Committee passes recognition bills for eight tribes
(Washington D.C.) -- The Senate Indian Affairs Committee took action on Thursday, July 28 on three bills affecting eight groups hoping to garner federal recognition as...
7/28/2011
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Indian Affairs Committee approves bills aimed at addressing federal recognition, land settlement, and streamlining the leasing process
(Washington D.C.) -- Today the Senate Indian Affairs Committee, chaired by Senator Daniel K. Akaka (D-Hawaii), approved legislation to extend federal recognition to the...
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Native-American tribe gets recogniton
(North Carolina) -- North Carolina's senators say a committee has unanimously approved an act to bring formal federal recognition to Lumbees. Sens. Kay Hagan and...
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One step closer / Bill to recognize Nansemonds passes Senate committee
(Washington D.C.) -- The Nansemond Indian Tribe received a bit of good — and somewhat unexpected — news on Thursday. The Senate Committee on Indian Affairs...
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Recognition for Va. tribes advances in U.S. Senate
(Washington D.C.) -- Legislation that would grant federal recognition to Virginia Indian tribes after more than a decade-long effort has passed the U.S. Senate Committee...
7/27/2011
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Judge dismisses Sandy Lake case
(Minnesota) -- The Sandy Lake Band of Mississippi Chippewa “failed to exhaust their administrative remedies” and their case was dismissed July 1 by Judge...
6/23/2011
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Tribe strives for federal recognition
(Oregon) -- Clatsop-Nehalem tribe members met recently with Congressman David Wu to discuss his support of the Clatsop-Nehalem Tribe's federal restoration process.
6/21/2011
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Tribe strives for federal recognition
(Washington) -- Clatsop-Nehalem tribe members met recently with Congressman David Wu to discuss his support of the Clatsop-Nehalem Tribe's federal restoration...
6/18/2011
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Lumbee bill back in Senate
(North Carolina) -- U.S. Sens. Richard Burr, a Republican, and Kay Hagan, a Democrat, reintroduced the Lumbee Recognition Bill in the Senate this week.
5/30/2011
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Back in the Day - May 15, 1996: Ramapoughs appeal federal tribal status rejection
(New Jersey) -- The Ramapough Mountain Indians, who live in Ramapo Mountains of North Jersey and Southern New York, appealed the Bureau of Indian Affairs’ (BIA)...
5/27/2011
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The Tribe That Would Not Die
(Washington) -- Anthropologists and historians have widely criticized federal acknowledgment procedures as both vulnerable to political pressure and unfair to Native...
5/24/2011
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Local members of Congress weigh in on Wappo suit
(California) -- Lawmakers Mike Thompson and Lynn Woolsey have weighed in on an Alexander Valley-based Indian tribe’s request for federal recognition, backing Napa...
5/13/2011
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Juaneños Plan Appeal of Federal Denial / Contentious history, specter of casino haunt tribe’s efforts
(California) -- The Bureau of Indian Affairs calls its March 15 rejection of a federal recognition for the Juaneño Band of Mission Indians a “Final Determination....
4/15/2011
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D.C. hearing 'big step' for Little Shell recognition
(Washington D.C.) -- The Interior Department official who denied the Little Shell Chippewas' application for tribal recognition in 2009 told lawmakers Thursday that...
4/14/2011
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Little Shell Tribe seeks federal recognition from Congress
(Montana) -- Members of the Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians are taking their long campaign for recognition to Congress, hoping lawmakers will overturn the 2009...
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Montana's Little Shell seeks recognition from Congress amid a political split at home
(Montana) -- A leader of Montana's Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians will take his people's long campaign for federal recognition to Congress Thursday for a...
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Should Hawaii Belong to the United States?
(Prince Edward Island) -- The so-called “birthers” insist that Barak Obama should not be president of the United States because he was not born on American...
4/13/2011
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Competing leaders to testify for Tester's Little Shell recognition bill
(Montana) -- Both of the Little Shell Tribe's two chairmen plan to testify in front of the U.S. Senate Indian Affairs Committee Thursday when it hears a proposal by...
3/27/2011
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North Dakota tribe seeks legitimacy
(Montana) -- For 120 years, a small band of American Indians in North Dakota have fought a political battle for legitimacy – a recognition they say is still owed them by...
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Oregon coalition seeking tribal recognition
(Oregon) -- Some descendants of the Chetco and Tututni Indians in Oregon want Congress to restore what they say is the state's 10th Indian tribe.
3/17/2011
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Feds deny recognition for San Juan tribe
(Washington D.C.) -- For the second time in less than five years, an Orange County tribe has been denied federal recognition by the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs. But...
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Juaneño Indians Again Denied Federal Recognition
(California) -- Members of the Juaneño Band of Mission Indians, Acjachemen Nation, have had their hearts broken by the federal government again. Assistant Secretary of...
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Juaneno Indians' Bid for Federal Recognition Denied
(California) -- The Juaneno Band of Mission Indians' 30-year bid to gain federal recognition has been denied, the tribe announced today. The decision from the...
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