# 25 C.F.R. § 83.4 (2025): Who cannot be acknowledged under this part?

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## Section

- **Citation:** 25 C.F.R. § 83.4 (2025)
- **Heading:** Who cannot be acknowledged under this part?
- **Jurisdiction:** Federal
- **Kind:** Regulations
- **Status:** In force
- **Text as of:** August 14, 2026
- **Source:** Compiled text
- **Location:** Title 25 CFR: Indians / Chapter I: BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR / Part 83: PROCEDURES FOR FEDERAL ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF INDIAN TRIBES / Subpart A: General Provisions / § 83.4: § 83.4   Who cannot be acknowledged under this part?

## Text

The Department will not acknowledge:
(a) An association, organization, corporation, or entity of any character formed in recent times unless the entity has only changed form by recently incorporating or otherwise formalizing its existing politically autonomous community;
(b) A splinter group, political faction, community, or entity of any character that separates from the main body of a currently federally recognized Indian tribe, petitioner, or previous petitioner unless the entity can clearly demonstrate it has functioned from 1900 until the present as a politically autonomous community and meets § 83.11(f), even though some have regarded them as part of or associated in some manner with a federally recognized Indian tribe;
(c) An entity that is, or an entity whose members are, subject to congressional legislation terminating or forbidding the government-to-government relationship; or
(d) An entity that previously petitioned and was denied Federal acknowledgment under part 54 of this chapter (as it existed before March 30, 1982) or part 83 (including reconstituted, splinter, spin-off, or component groups who were once part of previously denied petitioners) unless the entity meets the conditions of §§ 83.47 through 83.49.
[80 FR 37887, July 1, 2015, as amended at 90 FR 3643, Jan. 15, 2025]

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