Denied in 1981: Lower Muskogee Creek, Georgia (Georgia; petition 1978, denied 1981)
Record: the document says itPattern: documents line upLens: our readingOpen: not yet proven
Year: 1978 · Places: Georgia, Gulf Coast
SUMMARY22. Denied in 1981: Lower Muskogee Creek, Georgia (Georgia; petition 1978, denied 1981) [Connections: Who decided who's Indian, Nov 5, 2026]
RECORDThe Office of Federal Acknowledgment denied the group's 1978 petition in 1981, saying its membership criteria "contained no specific requirements for establishing Creek Indian ancestry," that it "is not a tribal community which has functioned as an autonomous entity throughout history until the present," and that it was "a group of individuals who believe themselves to be of Indian ancestry, most of whom did not conclusively establish this fact." Georgia later recognized the "Lower Muscogee Creek Tribe" by statute (O.C.G.A. § 44-12-300, card 24)
PATTERNFederal denial and state recognition of the same group: two governments, two answers
LENS (WW9)Same people, two sets of paper, two verdicts; who is "Indian" depends on which office holds the pen
OPENWikipedia is the only fetched source; pull the 1981 Federal Register notice
SOURCEWikipedia, Lower Muskogee Creek Tribe (East of the Mississippi)).