Mealey's (June 30, 2022, 12:56 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A tribal chairman cannot have a federal court compel the Department of the Interior (DOI) to extend federal recognition to his tribe because he failed to comply with the administrative process to apply to the government for recognition, a District of Columbia federal judge ruled June 28 in granting the DOI’s motion to dismiss the chairman’s lawsuit....