:The National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) is a voluntary membership organization, which tribes can choose to sign up and pay for. Only tribes that have chosen to be NCAI members are listed on their page. Thus NCAI does not define or determine the recognition status of tribes. It is best to go with the strongest evidence, which happens to be the Michigan Indian Directory. The directory is published by the government of the state of Michigan and clearly lists the Burt Lake Band as a State Tribe.