Md. Code Regs. 01.06.01.05

Current through Register Vol. 51, No. 22, November 1, 2024

Section 01.06.01.05 - Petition Requirements

A. A petition for formal recognition shall include:

(1) The name and mailing address of the petitioning group and of the individual authorized to act as the petitioning group's agent for petition purposes;

(2) A statement that the petitioning group is a Native American tribe, band, group, or clan indigenous to Maryland;

(3) A statement that the petitioning group has verified with its members that the majority of them are not members of any other tribe, band, group, or clan acknowledged or recognized as American Indian by the Secretary of the Interior or any state;

(4) A copy of the petitioning group's rules governing the conduct of the petitioning group's affairs; and

(5) All documentation required under §B of this regulation.

B. To document that the petitioning group meets the criteria set forth in Regulation .04 of this chapter, the petitioning group:

(1) Shall submit:

(a) Documents showing, from before 1790 until the present:

(i) Longstanding relationships of the group with the government of Maryland or the United States, based on identification of the group or the group's members as Native American indigenous to Maryland;

(ii) Repeated dealings of the group with a county or other local government in a relationship, based on identification of the group or the group's members as Native American indigenous to Maryland;

(iii) Repeated dealings of the group with other tribes, bands, groups, or clans, or national Native American organizations, based on identification of the group as Native American indigenous to Maryland;

(iv) Identification of the group as Native American indigenous to Maryland by anthropologists, historians, genealogists, or other scholars; or

(v) Repeated identification of the group or the group's members as Native American indigenous to Maryland in official government records, church or school records, medical records, bibles and other family records, newspapers, books, photographs, or oral histories;

(b) Documents identifying the name of the group, or other term recognizing the group as Native American indigenous to Maryland, with an approximate location in Maryland from before 1790 until the present;

(c) A list of membership criteria established by the group;

(d) A statement of the procedures adopted by the group for applying the group's membership criteria; and

(e) A list of all individuals included on the group's current and previous membership rolls or known by the group to be eligible for membership, and the county in which each resides; and

(2) May submit any other evidence, which may include affidavits from tribal elders, tribal leaders, or tribal officials recognizing individuals as members of the group.

Md. Code Regs. 01.06.01.05