-=> Quoting Sondra Ball to Jim Casto <=-
 SB> I guess that does make it a little different from the east coast
 SB> Indians, most of whom have no reservations at all.  As a matter of
 SB> fact, the Pennsylvania government officially announced that it does not
 SB> have even one living Lenapi in the entire state.
 I guess I'd have to know more about how the Pennsylvania government decided
 that. But... The state of Oregon doesn't "officially" recognize Kalapuya,
 Molalla, Atafalti, (and a few others) as anyone that can claim to have
 ancestral tribes to those peoples are considered part of the "Confederated
 Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon." Same way with the Siletz and
 the Warm Springs. They may have descendants of otherwise "extinct" native 
 peoples that's just not the "official" designation.
 
 
 SB> Funny, I thought I knew a couple.
 
 I know a lady who is Klickitat. Member of the Grand Ronde Community. (In
 Washington, original home of the Klickitat, they are part of the Yakama.)
 Doesn't stop her from being Klickitat.
 I'm "officially" American. _No_ government "officially" recognizes me as
 being Irish.
 
 Jim
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