Indian tribe in Alabama struggles for federal recognition

Monday, December 2, 2002

MOBILE, Ala. -- Wilford "Longhair" Taylor, chief of the MOWA Choctaws, promises to fight until death for what some prominent scholars say is his right: Federal recognition as a genuine American Indian tribe.

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