Thirty Years and Time Immemorial

Proving the Seven Criteria

The Amended Petition for Acknowledgment of the Jamestown Clallam Indian Tribe as a Federally Recognized Indian Tribe Pursuant to 25 CFR Part 54, was filed in 1979 after the federal government adopted the new regulations specifying what was necessary to gain recognition. In its 36 pages, the Petition cited example after example to prove the Tribe’s case for recognition for each of the seven criteria, and referenced appendices which included several hundred pages of evidence in the form of scholarly reports, legal documents and correspondence. In April of that same year, the
First (and only) Supplement to the Petition was filed, to bring new evidence into the case.
 
The Petition began with a Historical Overview which briefly outlined the ongoing Tribal-Federal relationship, and then went into narrative detail on each of the seven criteria.
 
The Petition tells the tale of more than 100 years of interaction between the Tribe and the U.S. government, making it impossible for the government to deny the fact that such a relationship existed. Although the treatment of the Tribe often did not seem fair, the facts spoke for themselves in defining a historical relationship, and were the key to gaining recognition.
 

 

Amended Petition	Amended Petition Appendices

 

 

A companion book to this exhibit,
Thirty Years and Time Immemorial; Commemorating the 30th Anniversary of the Official Federal Recognition of the Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe,
is available for purchase from
Northwest Native Expressions Gallery.