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By Matthew Brown
Billing, Montana (AP)
The Bureau of Indian Affairs has delayed for another 60 days its long-stalled decision over whether to grant federal recognition to a landless Montana tribe.
The roughly 4,300 members of the Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa are officially recognized by the state of Montana but have been unsuccessful in their decades-long fight for federal acknowledgment.
Billing, Montana (AP)
The Bureau of Indian Affairs has delayed for another 60 days its long-stalled decision over whether to grant federal recognition to a landless Montana tribe.
The roughly 4,300 members of the Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa are officially recognized by the state of Montana but have been unsuccessful in their decades-long fight for federal acknowledgment.
