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The number of tribes increased to 567 in July 2015 with the federal recognition of the Pamunkey tribe in Virginia. [6] USA.gov, the federal government's official web portal, maintains a list of tribal governments which is constantly updated.
[1] Members of a state-recognized tribe are still subject to state law and government, and the tribe does not have sovereign control over its affairs. State recognition confers few benefits under federal law. It is not the same as federal recognition, which is the federal government's acknowledgment of a tribe as a dependent sovereign nation ...
Cherokee Nation West of Missouri and Arkansas (formerly Cherokee Nation West or Southern Band of the Eastern Cherokee Indians of Arkansas and Missouri). [25] Letter of Intent to Petition 5/11/1998. [27] Also in Missouri. Cherokee-Choctaw Nation of St. Francis and Black Rivers, [25] Paragould, AR. Letter of Intent to Petition 08/01/2006. [27]
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Archaeology of Precolumbian Florida. Gainesville, Florida: University Press of Florida. ISBN 978-0-8130-1273-5. Milanich, Jerald T. (1995). Florida Indians and the Invasion from Europe. Gainesville, Florida: University Press of Florida. ISBN 0-8130-1360-7. Milanich, Jerald T. (1998). Florida's Indians from Ancient Times to the Present ...
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Apuckshunubbee (c. 1740 –1824) was chief of the Okla Falaya (Tall People) district in old Choctaw nation. He died in Kentucky on his way to Washington D.C. to conduct negotiations. Pushmataha (Apushmataha) (1760s–December 24, 1824) was a chief in old Choctaw nation. He negotiated treaties with the United States and fought on the American's ...
Starting in 1836, the US government forced them to remove west of the Mississippi along with the other Southeast tribes to what was designated as Indian Territory. About 20,000 Muscogee members were forced to walk the Trail of Tears, the same number as the Choctaw. [54] Modern Muscogee live primarily in Oklahoma, Alabama, Georgia, and Florida.