Acknowledgment Decision Compilation (ADC) List: Petitions on Active Consideration 

Updated March 22, 2010
 

DEPARTMENT'S ACTION ITEMS

Petitioners Awaiting Proposed Finding (PF): 3

• Piro/Manso/Tiwa Indian Tribe of the Pueblo of San Juan de Guadalupe (formerly Tiwa Indian Tribe), NM (#5)
• Meherrin Tribe, NC (#119b)
• Southern Sierra Miwuk Nation (formerly American Indian Council of Mariposa County, aka Yosemite), CA (#82)

Petitioners Awaiting Final Determinations (FD): 2 

• Brothertown Indian Nation, WI (# 67)
• Choctaw Nation of Florida (#288) 

PETITIONER'S and THIRD PARTY ACTION ITEMS

Commenting on Proposed Finding: 3

• Tolowa Nation, CA (#85)
• Central Band of Cherokee of Lawrenceburg, TN (#227)

Commenting on Amended Proposed Finding: 3

• Biloxi, Chitimacha Confederation of Muskogees, Inc., LA (#56a)
• Pointe-au-Chien Indian Tribe, LA (#56b) (Withdrew from the UHN #56 letter of intent 7/22/1996; responding to same proposed finding; comment period closed 11/6/97; active 2/4/05)
• United Houma Nation, Inc., LA (#56)

Responding to Comments on Proposed Finding: 0

Final Determination Issued; in 90-day Period during which Parties Can File an Appeal with Interior Board of Indian Appeals (IBIA): 2

• Juaneño Band of Mission Indians, CA (#84a)
• Juaneño Band of Mission Indians, CA (#84b) 

IN POST-FINAL DECISION APPEAL PROCESS - (1)

• Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians of MT (#31)

DECISIONS IN LITIGATION - (3)
(Department resolved) 

• Duwamish Indian Tribe, WA (#25) (denied eff. 5/8/02)
• Muwekma Ohlone Tribe of San Francisco Bay, CA [formerly Ohlone/Coastanoan Muwekma Tribe] (#111) (denied eff. 12/16/02)
• Snohomish Tribe of Indians, WA (#12) (denied eff. 3/9/04)

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