And while I'm talking to myself on a dead thread. The politics of the Salish Coast people gets even more interesting. A faction of people with tribal heritage left their tribes, but now wish to be recognized as a new tribe: the Duwamish. With the modern reparations movements, they believe anyone living in modern Seattle ought to be paying them rent: https://www.realrentduwamish.org So you can kind of see what the focus of this group is.

However the Muckleshoot, Puyallup, and Tulalip tribes already claim this land as their ancestral home. Coincidentally they each run profitable casinos and get special access to fishing rights. If another tribe was recognized, what would they give up? They took out https://www.therealduwamish.org to try to smear the former group.

So it's nuts out there with inter-tribe politics, but the common thread is that money and business come with ownership of tribal heritage and land. It all feels a little disingenuous - it's cultural panhandling.