Bureau of Indian Affairs

Tribal Leaders Directory & Federally Recognized Tribes Listing  (pdf format)

Federal Register / Vol. 70, No. 226 / Friday, November 25, 2005 / Notices

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Indian Entities Recognized and Eligible
To Receive Services From the United
States Bureau of Indian Affairs
AGENCY: Bureau of Indian Affairs,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
SUMMARY: This notice publishes the current list of 561 tribal entities
recognized and eligible for funding and services from the Bureau of Indian
Affairs by virtue of their status as Indian tribes. The list is updated from the
notice published on December 5, 2003 (68 FR 68180).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Daisy West, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Division of Tribal Government Services,
Mail Stop 320–SIB, 1951 Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20240.
Telephone number: (202) 513–7641.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This notice is published pursuant to Section
104 of the Act of November 2, 1994 (Pub. L. 103–454; 108 Stat. 4791, 4792),
and in exercise of authority delegated to the Assistant Secretary—Indian Affairs
under 25 U.S.C. 2 and 9 and 209 DM 8. Published below is a list of federally
acknowledged tribes in the contiguous 48 states and in Alaska.

The Delaware Tribe of Indians, Oklahoma, was removed from the list in
response to a final judgment and order sought by the Cherokee Nation of
Oklahoma in the United States District Court for the Northern District of
Oklahoma in Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma v. Norton, et al., Case No.
98–CV–903–TCK–FHM on remand from the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals in
Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma v. Norton, 389 F.3d 1074 (10th Cir. 2004),
as amended, 2005 U.S. App. LEXIS 2773 (10th Cir. Feb. 16, 2005).

The list does not include any additional new tribes. The updates are limited to several tribal name changes. To aid in identifying tribal name changes, the tribe’s former name is
included with the new tribal name. We will continue to list the tribe’s former
name for several years before dropping the former name from the list. We have
also made several corrections. To aid in identifying corrections, the tribe’s
previously listed name is included with the tribal name.

The listed entities are acknowledged to have the immunities and privileges available to other federally acknowledged Indian tribes by virtue of their government-to-government relationship with the United States well as the responsibilities, powers, limitations and obligations of such tribes. We have continued the practice of listing the Alaska Native entities separately solely for the purpose of facilitating identification of them and reference to them given the large number of complex Native names.
 

Dated: November 14, 2005.
Michael D. Olsen,
Acting Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary—
Indian Affairs.
Indian Tribal Entities Within the
Contiguous 48 States Recognized and
Eligible To Receive Services From the
United States Bureau of Indian Affairs