<Ul> <Li> Alabama - MOWA Band of Choctaw Indians: </Li> </Ul> <Li> Alabama - MOWA Band of Choctaw Indians: </Li> <P> The MOWA Choctaw reside on a 600 - acre reservation in southwestern Alabama with a total enrolled population of 3,600 (total population over 10,000). The tribe has the last Indian school in Alabama named Calcedeaver in Mount Vernon, Mobile County, Alabama . The Senate Select Committee on Indian Affairs voted 11--2 in support of federal recognition for the MOWA Choctaw . To date the tribe has had 12 Congressional Bills, 3 appeals through the office of federal acknowledgement, and a federal lawsuit directed at its efforts for federal recognition . </P> <P> Federal recognition is not a pre-requisite to accord a tribe sovereign immunity, according to John . S. Bottomly v Passamaquoddy Tribe et al. 595 F. 2d 1061 (1st Cir. 1979). In Bottomly, the United States Supreme Court held that the availability of sovereign immunity is not conditioned on formal federal recognition of a particular tribe . Therefore a tribe, its chief, nor its tribal officials do not need to prove that it has been federally recognized in order to assert immunity from suit for acts done in their official tribal capacity . </P>

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