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Rhode Island Case Could Set A Benchmark For How Tribes Use, Govern Their Lands
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- Lawyers for the state and town leaders in Charlestown argue the Narragansetts cannot place their land in trust under the Indian Reorganization Act because the tribe was not recognized when it was passed. In their view, Congress wanted the act to help tribes that lost millions of acres during a forced assimilation campaign that began in 1887 - and the Narragansetts aren''t one of them...
Cool, then give the Cherokee''s back their land they were FORCED to leave and walk west (Trail of Tears)into "no mans" land..And leave the Black Hills alone while they are at it.
A Democrat controlled State and they say Republicans are bad.. - Reply to this comment
- We have a right-wing Court. We know which way this is going.
Why bother with all the pretense? - Reply to this comment
- And why ever not? It was their land first, wasn''t it? And now they can''t even finish to build housing for their people on land taken from them and that they had to pay through the nose to get back. I have no Native American blood whatsoever, but fair is fair.
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- And why ever not? It was their land first, wasn''t it? And now they can''t even finish to build housing for their people on land taken from them and that they had to pay through the nose to get back. I have no Native American blood whatsoever, but fair is fair.
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