Nation
Chinook Indian Nation · chinook indian nation · Cathlamet · Clatsop · Lower Chinook · Wahkiakum · WillapaChinook Indian Nation
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- Recorded status
- Not on the federal list
- Website
- https://chinooknation.org
- Region
- Pacific Northwest
In the record
One court case turned on its rights: Chinook Indian Nation v. Burgum.
Written from the records linked here; open any of them for its sources. This is what the United States’ treaty record says, not the nation’s own account.
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Recognition, as each source states it
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- Not on the federal list, Washington / Oregon (lower Columbia River)Chinookan bands signed the 1851 Tansy Point treaties (unratified); Congress paid compensation in 1912; ICC Docket 234 award 1970; plaintiff in Chinook Indian Nation v. Bernhardt (W.D. Wash. 2020) over the re-petition ban. OFA reconsidered final determination declined acknowledgment, 67 FR 46204 (2002).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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Connections
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Named in 1
Sources
- chinooknation.org/unclassified
We are calling on our elected officials to do what’s right and end this humanitarian crisis and Federally recognize the Chinook Indian Nation.
- chinooknation.org/unclassified
1851 Superintendent of Indian Affairs Anson Dart negotiates the Tansy Point treaties.
- federalregister.gov/documents/2002/07/12/02-17551/reconsidered-final-determination-to-declprimary record
The United States negotiated treaties with these separate Chinook bands in 1851, but the Senate did not ratify them.
Research notes
Named in the Chinook v. Burgum row, which concerns a federal-recognition claim. The seed does not state a recognition status; none is recorded here.
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