---
kind: "section"
citation: "25 C.F.R. § 83.4"
title: "25"
number: "83.4"
heading: "Who cannot be acknowledged under this part?"
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/25/83.4"
---

# §83.4. Who cannot be acknowledged under this part?


The Department will not acknowledge:

- (a) An association, organization, corporation, or entity of any character formed in recent times unless the entity has only changed form by recently incorporating or otherwise formalizing its existing politically autonomous community;
- (b) A splinter group, political faction, community, or entity of any character that separates from the main body of a currently federally recognized Indian tribe, petitioner, or previous petitioner unless the entity can clearly demonstrate it has functioned from 1900 until the present as a politically autonomous community and meets [§ 83.11(f)](/cfr/25/83.11.md?p=f), even though some have regarded them as part of or associated in some manner with a federally recognized Indian tribe;
- (c) An entity that is, or an entity whose members are, subject to congressional legislation terminating or forbidding the government-to-government relationship; or
- (d) An entity that previously petitioned and was denied Federal acknowledgment under [part 54](/cfr/25/part54.md) of this chapter (as it existed before March 30, 1982) or [part 83](/cfr/25/part83.md) (including reconstituted, splinter, spin-off, or component groups who were once part of previously denied petitioners) unless the entity meets the conditions of [§§ 83.47 through 83.49](/cfr/25/83.47..83.49.md).

## Notes

### Amendments

[80 FR 37887, July 1, 2015, as amended at 90 FR 3643, Jan. 15, 2025]

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 301; 25 U.S.C. 2, 9, 5131; 25 U.S.C. 5130 note (Congressional Findings); and 43 U.S.C. 1457.

### Source

Source: 80 FR 37887, July 1, 2015, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[80 FR 37887, July 1, 2015, as amended at 90 FR 3643, Jan. 15, 2025]