Florida: Echo Hawk Issues A Final Determination Against Acknowledgment Of The Choctaw Nation Of ...

Florida: Echo Hawk Issues A Final Determination Against Acknowledgment Of The Choctaw Nation Of Florida   Assistant Secretary-Indian Affairs Larry Echo Hawk today issued a final determination not to acknowledge the petitioner known as the Choctaw Nation of Florida (Petitioner #288) as an Indian tribe.   The petitioner, from Marianna, Fla., and which has about 77 members, claims to be a group of Choctaw Indians who migrated from North Carolina to Georgia and then to Florida following the Indian...

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