Abstract
The acknowledgment process is now in its tenth year and has involved applied anthropologists in several roles; hence a constructive appraisal is no doubt appropriate. Relevant issues include the quality of research being done by the various parties to the process; the best approach for this complex evaluation problem; and whether a research-based process can survive in its present form in what has become, perhaps inevitably, an adversarial climate. I have been staff anthropologist with the Interior Department's administrative process for Federal acknowledgment of groups as Indian tribes since its inception in 1978. These comments are offered as an individual reply, not as a reply by the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
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