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Description
The Tribal Leaders Directory from the Department of the Interior provides contact and leadership information for tribes. It is updated weekly to reflect tribal elections and leadership changes, though it is not the official federal listing. The dataset is available in multiple formats including GDB, GPKG, GEOJSON, KML, XLS, CSV, and via an ArcGIS REST API.
Use Cases
Analyze tribal leadership contact information across geographic regions using spatial formats like GEOJSON or KML.
Track changes in tribal leadership over time by leveraging the dataset's weekly update cycle.
Cross-reference directory entries with the official Federal Register Notice for federally recognized tribes.
Strengths
Maintained by the Department of the Interior, a key federal agency.
Updated weekly to incorporate recent tribal leadership changes.
Offered in over 10 different file formats including spatial and tabular types.
Limitations
Not the official listing of federally recognized tribes, requiring verification with the Federal Register.
The Bureau of Indian Affairs does not guarantee the accuracy of the contact information.
Specific data volume, row count, and column structure are unknown.
Provenance
Source
Department of the Interior
Collection Method
Compiled and updated by the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA).
Time Range
Current information as of weekly updates.
Freshness
Updated weekly; last updated March 25,我们发现2026.
Geography
United States (tribal entities).
License is specified as 'other-license-specified'; users must review terms. Data is not the official federal listing and must be used in conjunction with the Federal Register Notice for recognized tribes.