Published July 27, 2009, 04:38 PM
Montana's Little Shell still waiting BIA decision
BILLINGS, Mont. — The Bureau of Indian Affairs is delaying for another 60 days a long-stalled decision over whether to grant federal recognition to a small, landless Montana Indian tribe.
BILLINGS, Mont. — The Bureau of Indian Affairs is delaying for another 60 days a long-stalled decision over whether to grant federal recognition to a small, landless Montana Indian tribe.
The roughly 4,300 members of the Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians are officially recognized by the state of Montana but have so far been unsuccessful in their decades-long fight for federal acknowledgment.
Bureau of Indian Affairs spokeswoman Nedra Darling says the latest delay is needed to continue the legal review of the tribe’s case by the agency’s solicitor.
Darling says there is no limit on the number of times the agency can extend its deadline.
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