ELR Citation: 43 ELR 20046
No(s). 11-5328 (D.C. Cir. Mar 1, 2013)

The D.C. Circuit upheld DOI's decision not to grant the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe's petition to be recognized as an Indian tribe. Muwekma is a group of American Indians from the San Francisco Bay area. Its members descended from a previously recognized tribe called the Verona Band, yet there is no eviden...