On Status of Previously Recognized Individuals & Organizations (2006)
AG Opinion on Status of Previously Recognized Individuals and Organizations
Opinion Summary: The recognition officially accorded to 89 individuals by the previous Tennessee Commission of Indian Affairs before that Commission was terminated by operation of the sunset laws remains in force and effect. This Office is aware of only one Native American Indian organization that the former Commission recognized before its termination in 2001, but that organization’s recognition status is no longer valid. The decision officially recognizing that
organization in 1993 effectively expired after 1995, once the organization failed to submit updated membership rolls under the former Commission’s rules.
