Final Determination Against Federal Acknowledgment of the Mobile- Washington County Band of Choctaw Indians of South Alabama (MOWA)

Résumé

This notice is published in accordance with authority delegated by the Secretary of the Interior to the Assistant Secretary-- Indian Affairs (Assistant Secretary) by 209 DM 8. Notice is hereby given that the Assistant Secretary declines to acknowledge that the Mobile--Washington County Band of Choctaw Indians of South Alabama (MOWA), 1080 West Red Fox Road, Mt. Vernon, Alabama 36560, exists as an Indian tribe within the meaning of Federal law. This notice is based on the determination that the group does not satisfy one of the mandatory criteria set forth in 25 CFR 83.7, namely criterion 83.7 (e). Therefore, the MOWA do not meet the requirements necessary for a government-to-government relationship with the United States, 25 CFR 83.10 (m).