Chinook Nation still fighting for federal recognition after 175 years
Gary Johnson saw federal recognition granted to the Chinook Indian Nation in 2001, only for it to be revoked 18 months later; his son Tony now leads the effort to restore it.
In 2001 Gary Johnson celebrated a win that his tribe, the Chinook Indian Nation, had spent decades fighting for: federal recognition. Then, 18 months later, the government took it away.