Michigan ‘Landless’ Indian Tribe Sues For Official Federal Recognition

(January 11, 2017, 1:54 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The last “landless” Indian tribe in Michigan asked a District of Columbia federal court Jan. 9 to order the U.S. government to grant the tribe its 80-year-old request for federal recognition (Burt Lake Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians v. Sally Jewell, et al., No. 1:17-cv-38, D. D.C.)....

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