Sentence examples for recognized as a tribe from inspiring English sources

The Wanapum are not recognized as a tribe by the federal government.

They were recognized as a tribe by New York and New Jersey in 1980, but the federal government has denied their application for tribal status, filed in 1979.

After that, the Shinnecock, who are already recognized as a tribe by New York State, would have to negotiate a treaty with the state to open a casino.

The arrival of the National Park Service posed a new challenge: because the Timbisha were never recognized as a tribe, they had no legal standing when Death Valley became public land.

The Osage were removed from their home in Missouri shortly after the expedition ended in 1806, and the Chinook, a maritime trading nation whose members still live here at the Columbia's mouth, were turned down by the Bush administration in their most recent effort to be formally recognized as a tribe.

The tribe claims ancestral ties to the Hudson Valley, but it is not recognized as a New York tribe by the state.

The Sakizaya were recognized as a 13th tribe on January 17 , 2007 and on April 23, 2008 the Sediq were recognized as Taiwan's 14th official tribe.

Now, according to the federal decision, they are recognized as a single tribe, the Eastern Pequot Tribe.

"As of now the Shinnecocks are not recognized as a federal tribe by the Bureau of Indian Affairs," said Christine Anderson, a spokeswoman for Gov. Eliot Spitzer.

This classification is still in use today, except for the lineage Electronini also being recognized as a distinct tribe as originally designated by Wisner [ 25].

This genus was later recognized as a separate tribe, Merciereae [ 56], but is allied with other southern African genera in the cpDNA analysis (Fig. 5).