Nov 4th, 2009 - Boston
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BILLINGS, Mont.—With some American Indian groups waiting decades for formal recognition from the U.S. government, federal officials Wednesday pledged to overhaul the cumbersome process but cautioned the changes could take two years to go into effect.
Federal recognition renders tribes eligible for economic assistance, land, housing grants and other government benefits.
Decisions on whether tribes qualify are supposed to be made by the Department of Interior within 25 months. Yet some Indians have seen their petitions languish within the agency's Bureau of Indian Affairs for 30 years or more without an answer.
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