Historical Eastern Pequot Tribe v. Office of Federal Acknowledgment, Bureau of Indian Affairs

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA HISTORICAL EASTERN PEQUOT TRIBE, Plaintiff, Civil Action No. 23-54 (JEB) v. OFFICE OF FEDERAL ACKNOWLEDGMENT, Defendant. MEMORANDUM OPINION Confronted with the daunting task of choosing a whaling ship on which to voyage, Ishmael selects the long-seasoned and weather-stained Pequod. “Pequod, you will no doubt remember, was the name of a celebrated tribe of Massachusetts Indians,” he says, “now extinct as the ancient Medes.” Herman Melville, Moby-Dick 77 (Penguin Books 1992) (1851). As reliable a narrator as Ishmael usually was, here he…