Nation
Biloxi, Chitimacha Confederation of Muskogees, Inc.Biloxi, Chitimacha Confederation of Muskogees, Inc.
Not yet reviewed by this nation. What follows comes from public records and research. It does not speak for the nation.
- Recorded status
- Petitioning for federal acknowledgment
- Region
- Louisiana
Recognition, as each source states it
Recognition is a legal and political status that governments assign; it is not a measure of who a people are.
- Petitioning for federal acknowledgment, LouisianaPetitioner #56A 'Awaiting Supplement'; OFA amended proposed finding (73 FR 31140, 2008) found criterion 83.7(a) met for its subgroups since 1900, but not (b).source
Who is doing the work
Native legal and land defense, nationally
- Native American Rights Fund (NARF) Native-led Litigation and legal advocacy for tribal sovereignty, treaty rights, land and resources Give on their site Website
- NDN Collective (LANDBACK Campaign) Native-led LANDBACK campaign (launched 2020; Mount Rushmore closure and return of Black Hills public lands), Indigenous… Give on their site Website
- Indian Land Tenure Foundation (ILTF) Native-led Land recovery and control by tribes and individual Indian landowners Website
- Decolonizing Wealth Project (Indigenous Earth Fund; California Tribal Land Return) Native-led Reparative philanthropy Give on their site Website
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Sources
- federalregister.gov/documents/2008/05/30/E8-12155/amended-proposed-finding-against-acknowlprimary record
the substantially continuous identification of the subgroups of the petitioner as Indian entities since 1900.
- bia.gov/as-ia/ofa/petitions-in-processreference work
056A Biloxi, Chitimacha Confederation of Muskogees, Inc. Louisiana Awaiting Supplement
- Kind
- Nation
- Confidence
- Low
- Nation review
- Not yet reviewed by this nation