Mealey's (November 28, 2017, 1:01 PM EST) -- SAN FRANCISCO — The Bureau of Indian Affairs correctly held that 18 Native Americans cannot form a new tribe under the Indian Reorganization Act because they fail to meet the definition of “tribe” and are only a subset of Indians who live on the Pinoleville Rancheria in California, a federal judge ruled Nov. 27 in awarding the federal government summary judgment in the dispute (Andrew Allen, et al. v. United States of America, et al., No. 3:16-cv-04403, N.D. Calif., 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 194497)....