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Tribes
“
Tribe
an organism, one flesh, breathing joy as the stars
breathe destiny down on us, get
going, join hands, see to business, thousands of sons
will see to it when you fall, you will grow
a thousand times in the bellies of your sisters
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― Revolutionary Letters
― Revolutionary Letters
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Just as the Five Tribes and others were formalizing their tribal governments and running their own programs, legal aid groups were helping nonrecognized tribes do the same: the two were on a collision course. One result was the Federal Acknowledgment Process, establsiehd within the BIA in 1978. Its rigorous criteria and evaluation process reflected the desires of the Five Tribes and many other reservation tribes to have a stringent regimen, on that protected their rights, economic resources, and
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― Claiming Tribal Identity: The Five Tribes and the Politics of Federal Acknowledgment
― Claiming Tribal Identity: The Five Tribes and the Politics of Federal Acknowledgment
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