Talk:Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe

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What is the formal name of this tribe?[edit]

This article was created in October 2010 using the name Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe.

This tribe is listed the federal list of tribes as the Lower Elwha Tribal Community (previously listed as the Lower Elwha Tribal Community of the Lower Elwha Reservation, Washington).^[1]

The puzzle in my mind is that this article about the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe does not mention "Tribal Community" anywhere in the article. None of the sources cited by this article mention "Tribal Community." Did the name of the tribe change or is this article using the wrong name? If the name changed then when did this happen and why isn't the new name recognized by the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA)?

Two Wikipedia articles use the BIA form of the name:

Within the BIA lists this is the only tribe that is known as a "Tribal Community." Thus the term does not not seem to be a BIA created designation. A number of tribes have "Community" in their names on the BIA list with nearly all of their Wikipedia articles also using "Community" in their titles. It's possible that "Community" is a BIA designation though apparently the "Community" versions of the rtibal names were WP:COMMONNAME enough that they were retained as the article titles.--Marc Kupper|talk 19:31, 11 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ "Federal Register, Volume 83, Number 141 dated July 23, 2018" (PDF). Loc.gov. Retrieved 5 October 2018.

[1] "Federal Register, Volume 83, Number 141 dated July 23, 2018" (PDF). Loc.gov. Retrieved 5 October 2018.

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