Lipan Apache Tribe of Texas

Not to be confused with Lipan Apache Band of Texas.
Lipan Apache Tribe of Texas
Named afterLipan Apache people, State of Texas
FormationIncorporated in 2007[1]
Type
US Texas TIN 13311748407[1]
EIN 33-1174840[2]
Legal statusactive
PurposeTo promote and preserve the cultural, social, educational, spiritual, linguistic, economic, health, and traditional needs[2]
Location
Official language
English
Websitelipanapache.org

The Lipan Apache Tribe of Texas is a state-recognized tribe[3][4][5][6] and nonprofit organization in Texas.[7] Members of the tribe descend from the Lipan Apache,[8] a Southern Athabaskan Indigenous people.[9] The Lipan Apache Tribe of Texas is headquartered in McAllen, Texas.[10]

The Lipan Apache Tribe of Texas incorporated as a non-profit in 2007.[11] In a lawsuit against the Department of the Interior (DOI) initiated by a Lipan tribe member, a ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit resulted in a settlement with the DOI, which granted over 400 Native American plaintiffs access to eagle feathers.[12] The City of Presidio, Texas, and County of Presidio Texas transferred a historic Lipan Apache cemetery back to the Tribe.[13] The Lipan Apache Tribe of Texas attend the yearly Apache Alliance summit meetings.[14]

They are not a federally recognized American Indian tribe.[15][16] State-recognition status can take different forms, including by state law and by legislation.[17][18]: 137  The Texas government has not developed a process of recognition.[18]: 103  The Tribe has been recognized by legislation,[19] which does not carry the force of law.[20]

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  3. ^ Wilson, Khrystye H. (2023). "Eagle Permits, RFRA, and American Indian Religious Freedom: Legal Avenues for First Amendment Protection" (PDF). The Indigenous Peoples' Journal of Law, Culture, & Resistance. 8: 87. JSTOR 48758184. 2018 Petition to Fish and Wildlife Service "Pastor Robert Soto, a member of the state-recognized Lipan Apache tribe..."
  4. ^ "Indigenous Students and Families" (PDF). Texas Education Agency. The state-recognized Lipan Apache Tribe of Texas has its headquarters in McAllen
  5. ^ Moss, Margaret P. (December 16, 2015). American Indian health and nursing. Springer Publishing Company. p. 378. ISBN 9780826129840. In a Appendix B the Lipan Apache Tribe is listed as state-recognized for Texas.
  6. ^ Breslin, Beau; Cavanaugh, Kathrine (2014). Case 1: A.A. v. Needville Independent School District. Studies in Law, Politics, and Society. Vol. 65. p. 144.
  7. ^ McNally, Michael D. (Summer 2019). "Native American Religious Freedom as a Collective Right". BYU Law Review. 2019 (1): 269. The Court also noted that the Lipan Apache tribe, as a non-profit, was, among the four hundred federally unrecognized tribes, one of only fifty that had received federal funding.
  8. ^ Seymour, Deni J.; Rodriguez, Oscar (2017). "Embracing a Mobile Heritage Federal Recognition and Lipan Apache Enclavement". In Seymour, Deni J. (ed.). Fierce and indomitable: The protohistoric non-pueblo world in the American Southwest. University of Utah Press. p. 77. ISBN 9781607815211.
  9. ^ Hoijer, Harry (1938). "The southern Athapaskan languages". American Anthropologist. 40 (1): 75–87. doi:10.1525/aa.1938.40.1.02a00080. JSTOR 661792.
  10. ^ "Indigenous Students and Families" (PDF). Texas Education Agency.
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  15. ^ "Indian Entities Recognized by and Eligible To Receive Services From the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs". Federal Register. January 8, 2024.
  16. ^ "What is a federally recognized tribe?". Bureau of Indian Affairs. U.S. Department of the Interior.
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  18. ^ a b Koenig, Alexa; Stein, Jonathan (2008). "Federalism and the State Recognition of Native American Tribes: A Survey of State-Recognized Tribes and State Recognition Processes across the United States". Santa Clara Law Review. 48 (1). Retrieved July 8, 2024 – via Santa Clara Law Digital Commons.
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  20. ^ Koenig, Alexa; Stein, Jonathan (2013). "Federalism and the State Recognition of Native American Tribes: a survey of state-recognized tribes and state recognition processes across the United States.". In De Ouden, Amy E.; O'Brien, Jean M. (eds.). Recognition, sovereignty struggles, and indigenous rights in the United States: A sourcebook. Chapel Hill, NC: UNC Press Books. p. 133. ISBN 978-1-4696-0215-8.