US overhauls process for recognizing Indian tribes

His tribe once controlled huge swaths of what is now New York and Connecticut, but the shrunken reservation presided over by Alan Russell today hosts little more than four mostly dilapidated homes and a pair of rattlesnake dens.

http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/e0a9e775ae744bd7bc5caa8945cb3151/US--Tribal-Recognition