The Marietta Band of Nooksacks are an
unrecognized group of
Nooksack people
The Nooksack (; Nooksack: ''Noxwsʼáʔaq'') are a federally recognized Native American tribe near the Pacific Northwest Coast. They are a sovereign nation, located in the mainland northwest corner of Washington state in the United States alon ...
in
Whatcom County, Washington
Whatcom County is a county located in the northwestern corner of the U.S. state of Washington, bordered by the Canadian Lower Mainland (the Metro Vancouver and Fraser Valley Regional Districts of British Columbia) to the north, Okanogan ...
.
They are not part of the
federally recognized tribe known as the
Nooksack, who are based in Whatcom County. They have a nearly 3200-acre land base, much of it held by the federal government as
trust land.
See also
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Marietta, Washington
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List of unrecognized tribes in the United States
Unrecognized tribes in the United States are organizations of people who claim to be historically, culturally, and/or genetically related to historic Native American Indian tribes but who are not officially recognized as Indigenous nations by the ...
References
Whatcom County, Washington
Native American tribes in Washington (state)
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