# COMAR Title 01 — Executive Department

## Subtitle 06 — Governor'S Office of Community Initiatives

### Chapter 01 — Recognition of Maryland Indian Status

#### Regulation .04 Recognition Criteria.

*COMAR 01.06.01.04*

The Commission may recommend that an eligible petitioning group be formally recognized under Regulation .08 of this chapter as a Maryland Indian tribe, band, group, or clan if the petitioning group establishes, taking into account the special circumstances of Native Americans indigenous to Maryland, that:

A. The group has been:

  (1) Identified as Native American from before 1790 until the present, and

  (2) Part of a continuous Native American community from before 1790 until the present;

B. The members of the group are descendants from a tribe that:

  (1) Existed before 1790,

  (2) Is indigenous to Maryland, and

  (3) Inhabited a specific area in Maryland before 1790; and

C. The membership of the group is composed principally of persons who are not members of any other acknowledged or recognized Native American tribe, band, group, or clan.