THE SPIKE
Alphabetical Index of State Recognized
Tribes
The state recognition of tribes has gotten completely out of hand and meaningless. States, thinking that there may be Federal Funding for state recognition coming to their state or in an attempt to bring casinos to their state so they can get some of the droppings, are passing out state recognition freely and without any attempt at defining the cultural heritage of the groups. It will only get worse.
STATE-RECOGNIZED TRIBES & CONTACTS
(TDSA)=1990 Tribal Designated Statistical
Area
(R)=Reservation
Alabama (6)
Connecticut (3)
Golden Hill Paugussett (R),
[Paucatuck Eastern Pequot
and Schagticoke in despute with Federal Recognition findings, state legislators and state organizations.]
Delaware (1)
Nanticoke Indian Association
Individually Recognized by Delaware Code 29, Section 105
§ 105. Nanticoke Indians; proof of descent; recognition.
(a) The class of people known as the descendants of the Nanticoke Indians, formerly of Sussex County but at present located in the several counties of this State, who desire to migrate, may appear before any justice of the peace or notary public of this State and, on the evidence and proof that the person belongs to or is a descendant of the Nanticoke Indians, may procure from such justice or notary a certificate reciting such facts.
(b) The descendants of the Nanticoke Indians named in subsection (a) of this section shall be recognized as such within this State. (22 Del. Laws, c. 470, §§ 1, 2; Code 1915, § 3563; Code 1935, § 4053; 29 Del. C. 1953, § 105; 70 Del. Laws, c. 186, § 1.)
Georgia (3)
Georgia Eastern Cherokee, Cherokee of
Georgia, Lower Muskogee Creek (R), Tama Tribal
Town.
Louisiana (5)
Choctaw-Apache of Ebarb (TDSA), Caddo
Tribe, Clifton Choctaw (TDSA), Four Winds Cherokee,
United Houma Nation (TDSA).
Massachusetts (5)
Tribes: None. There is no mechanism in
place in this state for Indian tribes to petition
for state recognition.
Michigan (3)
Burt Lake Band of Ottawa and Chippewa
Indians, Grand River Band of Ottawa Indians,
Swan Creek Black River Confederate Tribe.
Montana (1)
Little Shell Chippewa Tribe.
New Jersey
THERE ARE NO STATE RECOGNIZED TRIBES IN NEW JERSEY.
THESE "GROUPS" ARE ATTEMPTING TO GAIN STATE RECOGNITION
BUT ARE NOT CURRENTLY RECOGNIZED.
[An individual calling herself "Bonita Evans, Ph.D." and a "yona runningbear " are making a concerted effort to convince people that the law granting state recognition to these groups has been passed. Please ignore her. Legislation was introduced in January 2004 but to date has not been passed.]
Groups:
Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape, Powhatan Renape
(R), Ramapough Mountain (TDSA).
New York (2)
Shinnecock (R), Poospatuck (R).
North Carolina (9)
Coharie (TDSA ), Haliwa-Saponi (TDSA), Lumbee (TDSA), Meherrin (TDSA),
Indians of Person County,
Waccamaw-Siouan (TDSA), Occaneechi Band of the Saponi Nation
South Carolina (2)
Waccamaw - Horry County, Pee Dee Nation of Upper South Carolina - Dillon County, Caulder’s Pee Dee Indian Tribe of South Carolina, Beaver Creek Indians, Santee Indian Organization.
(The Eastern Cherokees, based in Oconee County, and the Wassamasaw Tribe of Varnertown Indians, based in Berkeley County, are approved only as Native American Indian groups, a classification with slightly less stringent requirements.)
(Chaloklowa Chickasaw Indian People and the Fields Indian Family-Pine Hill Indians are not recognized as tribes because they do not meet standards proving their historical basis.)
Vermont
S. 117 does not define what or who an Abenaki person is in Vermont. It is quite vague. We will have to wait for the Governor's Council, created by the bill, to make that determination. Just because a person claims to be an Abenaki from Vermont does not mean that particular individual is a state recognized Indian person or is an American Indian craftsperson as defined by the FACL.
Virginia (8)
Chickahominy Indian Tribe (TDSA), Chickahominy
Eastern Band (TDSA), Monacan Indian Nation,
Nansemond Indian Tribe, Rappahannock Indian
Tribe, Upper Mattaponi Tribe, Mattaponi Indian
Tribe (R), Pamunkey Indian Tribe (R).
West Virginia (1)
Tribes: See note below.
Appalachian American Indians of West Virginia
I would like to acknowledge the help received
from the Census Bureau in compiling this list. Unfortunately,
they erred on some of their data. They originally
claimed that Massachusetts had several state recognized
tribes and also claimed West Virginia had the tribe
above. This is erroneous. The AAIWV is not a tribe
at all.
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