The Ex Post Facto Law - 25 CFR Part 83 - PROCEDURES FOR FEDERAL ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF INDIAN TRIBES

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By Line – Fort Smith, Arkansas
Monday, February 16, 2026, 2:00 pm

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Not only is 25 CFR (Code of Federal Regulations) Part 83 an Ex Post Facto regulation created by the Department of the Interior and not Congress, it violates the Civil Rights of every Citizen of The Chickamauga Nation by denying them their Treaty Rights, federally guaranteed statute rights, and rights guaranteed to them by the Supreme Court.

The Department of Interior is denying the Citizens of The Chickamauga Nation their Civil Rights with 25 CFR Part 83.

On page 3 of 24, it is clear in "§ 83.2 What is the purpose of the regulations in this part?" that the purpose of the regulation is "to determine whether a petitioner is an Indian tribe eligible for the special programs and services" and that "a positive determination will result in Federal recognition status."  There is a legal problem with this regulation. First, the purpose requires Federally Recognized Tribes who are not on the List to determine if they are Federally Recognized. Second, a Federally Recognized Tribe cannot legally go through this process because it would subjugating is Tribal Sovereignty to an agency which has no statute authority to make such determinations in that the Congress, Presidents, and the Supreme Court of the United States has already determined that The Chickamauga Nation is a Federally Recognized Tribe.

By Requiring The Chickamauga Nation to enter into this process, the Tribe would ultimately be surrendering its Tribal Sovereignty and Federal Recognition.

Given that we now retain over 1,000,000 pages of academically verified research with a vast majority, over 85% of that coming directly from the various Nation Archives of the United States, it is likely that the United States government may request our documentation. If so, we will gladly charge the United States $175 per page in research fees, $75 per page for archival fees, and $200 per page for other miscellaneous fees or a total of $450,000,000 for a digital copy, we will not provide paper copies or originals.