Proposed Finding Against Federal Acknowledgment of the Webster/Dudley Band of Chaubunagungamaug Nipmuck Indians

Résumé

Pursuant to 25 CFR 83.10(h), notice is hereby given that the Assistant Secretary--Indian Affairs (AS-IA) proposes to determine that the Webster/Dudley Band of Chaubunagungamaug Nipmuck Indians, 265 West Main Street, c/o Mr. Edwin W. Morse Sr., P.O. Box 275, Dudley, Massachusetts 01501, does not exist as an Indian tribe within the meaning of Federal law. This notice is based on a determination that the petitioner does not satisfy criteria 83.7(a), 83.7(b), and 83.7(c) and, therefore, does not meet the requirements for a government-to- government relationship with the United States.