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There are those tribes that share a cultural connection with the larger tribe that holds federal acknowl12 ▶ Introduction edgment, and thus all entities maintain a cultural affinity with the larger, federally acknowledged tribe. In some cases, but not all, the culturally affiliated tribes hold federal acknowledgment as does the larger, federally acknowledged tribe. The Muscogee (Creek) Nation is one example in which there are three Creek Tribal Towns that hold federal acknowledgment, and the members of each town can also be members of the larger Muscogee (Creek) Nation within which Tribal Town members and those Creeks without town membership are included.
Turning away from Cherokee tribal membership is a choice guided by one’s political allegiance while dropping out of the Cherokee service population is an economic decision that some do not have the luxury to make. It would take a considerable amount of time for the Delaware Tribe to develop an infrastructure comparable to that of the Cherokee Nation, and some Delaware simply cannot do without Cherokee-administered programs and services despite their unquestionable support for Delaware independence.
Delaware Homeland: The seventeenth-century Delaware territory and distribution of Munsee and Unami dialects. Adapted from Ives Goddard, “Delaware,” in Handbook of North American Indians, vol. 15: Northeast, ed. Bruce Trigger and William Sturtevant (Washington dc: Smithsonian Institution, 1978), p. 214, figure 1. Map by Rebecca Dobbs. learned and used by the Delaware in eastern Oklahoma, and Delaware is the tribal name used by most tribal members, with Lenape as an often used synonym. In the seventeenth century, Munsee-and Unami-speaking groups lived in approximately forty politically autonomous bands of a few hundred members each that were linked through cultural similarities, periodic alliances, and marriage (Goddard 1978:213–216).