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Federal Recognition and Indian TribesAll Native American groups within what is now the
United States (nations, tribes, pueblos, communities, colonies) are
descendants of the approximately 600 organized tribes inhabiting what
is now the United States at the time the Europeans first came to this
land. The U.S. has dealt with them through treaties, agreements,
statutes, court decisions and executive orders. Federally-recognized
tribes are those with whom the U.S. government affirms it has a formal
“political” relationship which, in this case, it calls “the trust
relationship.” Today there are some 560 federally-recognized tribes
(333 in the lower 48 and 227 in Alaska). Chapter 3, Youth for Tribal Government by Kirke Kickingbird and Lynn Shelby Kickingbird |
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