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No New Tribe

A federal judge on Monday denied a bid by a splinter group of the Pinoleville Pomo Nation tribe to organize as a separate tribe, finding the Bureau of Indian Affairs was within its authority to find the group a subset of the Pinoleville Pomo rather than a tribe onto itself.

SAN FRANCISCO – A federal judge on Monday denied a bid by a splinter group of the Pinoleville Pomo Nation tribe to organize as a separate tribe, finding the Bureau of Indian Affairs was within its authority to find the group a subset of the Pinoleville Pomo rather than a tribe onto itself.

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