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Article: WASHINGTON: Pointe-au-Chien Indian Tribe of Louisiana to Lose Bid for Recognition
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- May 30, 2008
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WASHINGTON, May 30 -- The Bureau of Indian Affairs has amended its finding not to acknowledge the Pointe-au-Chien Indian Tribe of Louisiana as a federally-recognized Native American tribe.
BIA said: The Pointe-au-Chien Indian Tribe claims to be the continuation of a historical Indian community on a bayou in south-central Louisiana that was originally settled in the mid-19th century. The Pointe-au-Chien Indian Tribe has 682 members. It has a written constitution as its governing document, and its membership criteria require its members to descend from an individual living in the Bayou "Pointe-au-Chien" Indian settlement in 1900. It has ...