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Tony Johnson shows a 'classic bay canoe given to former hereditary chief Lewis Hawkes when he was 12 at his office in Bay Center, Wash., Sept. 8, 2015. Every day for the last three months, the Chinook Indian Nation has addressed a letter to President Barack Obama about a subject that Johnson calls “a matter of life or death.” Johnson, 44, was speaking of the tribe’s long and frustrating effort to win federal recognition, a task he’s led since his election as tribal chairman in June. Federal recognition would make 2,700 Chinook nation members eligible for a wide range of federal health, education and other benefits and allow to the tribe to establish a reservation. (Bill Wagner / The Daily News via AP)
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