Golden Hill Paugussett Federal Recognition
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content: Blair Rudes papers
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content: 1994-2003
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content: National Anthropological Archives
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content: NAA.2009-16, Series 7
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content: Archival materials
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content: Materials in this series are related to the Golden Hill Paugussett Tribe of Connecticut and their petition to the federal government for federal recognition. Rudes was hired to work with Chief Quiet Hawk, the tribe's legal team, and other genealogists and researchers in creating petition documents for the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) and Branch of Acknowledgement and Research (BAR). Most materials are related to the tribe's original submission of documents to the BIA in 1996 (which was denied) and subsequent historical and genealogical research that Rudes was involved in as the tribe attempted to appeal the BIA's decision (which was denied again permanently in 2004). Materials consist of legal and technical documents created by the Golden Hill Paugussetts and the BIA, correspondence, historical and genealogical records, drafts of tribal documents, research notes, and publications related to the history of the tribe.