Nation
Brothertown Indian NationBrothertown Indian Nation
Not yet reviewed by this nation. What follows comes from public records and research. It does not speak for the nation.
- Recorded status
- Federal relationship terminated and not restored
- Region
- Wisconsin (Fond du Lac)
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.
- Federal relationship terminated and not restored, Wisconsin (Fond du Lac)OFA final determination (77 FR 56230, 2012) found that the Act of 1839 expressly terminated the tribe's federal relationship; petitioner #67.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
Gifts go straight to each organization; this atlas takes nothing. Listing is not endorsement: how organizations are listed.
Sources
- federalregister.gov/documents/2012/09/12/2012-22380/final-determination-against-acknowledgprimary record
Congress provided that the Brothertown Indian tribe's “rights as a tribe,” and specifically its power to act as a political and governmental entity
- brothertownindians.orgunclassified
Continuity, survival, and autonomy are and always have been core to the Brothertown Indian Nations’ identity and foundation.
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