Legal Issues
This page provides documentation for the statements made by attorney Shelby Stoner. It is not intended to be a definitive review of the legal arguments.
The Proposed Findings is the best summary of the evidence, which was compiled by Office of Federal Acknowledgment (OFA) and can be found on the BIA/OFA’s recognition petition page for Duwamish, full link here: https://www.bia.gov/sites/default/files/dup/assets/as-ia/ofa/petition/025_duwami_WA/025_pf.pdf
The final/operative decision from 2015 also is a source of information, found here: https://www.bia.gov/sites/default/files/dup/assets/as-ia/ofa/petition/025_duwami_WA/025_fdr2.pdf Based on the 1926 Duwamish tribal rolls, Duwamish tribal membership was 389 people. Of that number, only 76 Duwamish resided on reservations. Only 11 lived at Muckleshoot.
The final/operative decision from 2015 also is a source of information, found here: https://www.bia.gov/sites/default/files/dup/assets/as-ia/ofa/petition/025_duwami_WA/025_fdr2.pdf Based on the 1926 Duwamish tribal rolls, Duwamish tribal membership was 389 people. Of that number, only 76 Duwamish resided on reservations. Only 11 lived at Muckleshoot.