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Native American Tribes Struggle for State Recognition

Maryland’s eight indigenous tribes fight a state recognition process that’s been effectively dormant for years.

ClientCapital News Service
ScopeFeature reporting
Timeline
RoleReporter
Year2011
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The goal

What I made

A report on the roughly 20,000 Native Americans and eight indigenous tribes in Maryland, and their long fight for the state recognition that other states already grant.

What happened

Distributed by Capital News Service, the University of Maryland’s student wire, to newsrooms across the state.

The numbers

“We are the only minority in the country that has to prove who they are.” — Rudy Laughing Otter Hall, chief of the Accohannock Indian Tribe

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