In Search of Recognition: Federal Indian Policy and the Landless Tribes of Western Washington.

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  • Author(s): Porter, III, Frank W. (AUTHOR)
  • Source:
    American Indian Quarterly. Spring90, Vol. 14 Issue 2, p113-132. 20p.
  • Additional Information
    • Subject Terms:
      GOVERNMENT relations with Native Americans
    • Abstract:
      Examines the vicissitudes of the Federal Indian policy and explains how and why the majority of the landless tribes of western Washington have been denied federal recognition despite numerous efforts. Landless tribes' maintenance of their tribal identify; Tribes' individual petitioning of the Bureau of Indian Affairs for federal recognition; Terms of the Federal Indian policy; History of the landless tribes of western Washington.