Larry Roberts, the acting Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs. Photo from Bureau of Indian Affairs
The Bureau of Indian Affairs has once again published an annual list of federally recognized tribes on time. The Federally Recognized Indian Tribe List Act of 1994 requires the BIA to publish the list "annually on or before every January 30." But in the last decade, the agency was severely late several times and didn't even bother with the list for two of those years. The BIA finally got back on track in 2014, when the list was published on January 29, 2014. In 2015, it was published on January 14. This year's was published on January 29, one day ahead of the deadline. "The listed Indian entities are acknowledged to have the immunities and privileges available to federally recognized Indian tribes by virtue of their government-to-government relationship with the United States as well as the responsibilities, powers, limitations, and obligations of such tribes," Larry Roberts, the acting head of the BIA, said in the notice. The list contains 566 tribes, the same number as last year. Federal Register Notice:
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