A Native American group has
asked the federal government for recognition as a tribe.
The tribe says it filed a request
March 20 seeking tribal jurisdiction and recognition for land claims, hunting
and fishing rights, the protection of religious freedom and other treaty
obligations under the Indian Reorganization Act.
Mackinac Tribal Nation member
Darrin Ranguette says the group has thousands of members in the eastern Upper
Peninsula as well as in the Lower Peninsula, Indiana and Ohio.
