Unrecognized tribe

Unrecognized tribes in the United States are organizations of people who claim to be historically, culturally or genetically related to historic Native American Indian tribes but who are not officially recognized as indigenous nations by the United States federal government, which has a direct relationship with sovereign nations, or by individual states under their separate legislative processes, or by recognized indigenous nations.

The following groups claim to be Native American Indians/Aboriginal First Nations by ethnicity, but have no federal recognition through the United States Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs Office of Federal Acknowledgment (OFA), United States Department of the Interior Office of the Solicitor (SOL), nor are recognized by any state government in the United States nor any recognized indigenous nations.

Following is a list of current (last ten years) groups known to self-identify as Native American tribes but that have been recognized neither by the federal government (Bureau of Indian Affairs) nor by any state nor tribal government.

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A legal complaint was made by the lobbyist, Mark Greene, through attorney Robert D. Tuke, to challenge the events of the Tennessee Commission on Indian Affairs meeting on June 19, 2010. He filed a complaint as a "citizen and resident of the State of Tennessee and a registered lobbyist for the Cherokee Nation (actually "Of Oklahoma"),(Five Civilized Tribes Act) A Federally Recognized Indian tribe." The Tennessee Attorney General allowed the case to proceed without a full and clear understanding of Supreme Court rulings and Federal laws already in place. The disposition by the Tennessee Attorney General was that the actions of the Tennessee Commission on Indian Affairs "could be found by a court to constitute violations of Tennessee's Open Meetings Act.". This was reported in the newspaper Knoxville Sentinel
The final agreed order between the Tennessee Attorney General and the Lobbyists, Mark Greene and Robert D. Tuke, for the Cherokee Nation (actually "Of Oklahoma")stated that "The Actions....in awarding state recognition as an Indian Tribe to the Remnant Yuchi Nation; United Eastern Lenape Nation of Windfield Tennessee; Chikamaka Band; Central Band of Cherokee; Cherokee Wolf Clan; and Tanasi Council are declared void and of no affect pursuant to Tenn. Code Ann 8-44-105." was signed by Davidson County Chancery Court Judge Ellen Hobbs Lyle.
File:Tennessee Commission of Indian Affairs List of State Recognized Tribes.pdf

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