Posted on 09/10/2018 7:26:30 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Sen. Elizabeth Warren slammed the Trump administration after it threw a $1 billion casino project into doubt by ruling the federal government could not take land into trust for a Massachusetts tribe, an issue she has championed as she fights criticism over her disputed claims of Cherokee ancestry.
The Massachusetts Democrat vowed to move forward with legislation after the Bureau of Indian Affairs admitted defeat Friday in its two-year search for a legal avenue to take 320 acres into trust on behalf of the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe.
The Interior Department agreed in 2015 to hold land in trust for the tribe, a condition for building the tribal casino, but a year later U.S. District Court Judge William G. Young blocked the decision, ruling that the tribe was recognized about 73 years too late to qualify under the 1934 Indian Reorganization Act.
“The decision by the Trump administration to move forward with denying the Mashpee Wampanoag a right to their ancestral homeland and to keep their reservation is an injustice,” Ms. Warren and Sen. Edward J. Markey, both Massachusetts Democrats, said in a statement....
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The Interior Department agreed in 2015 to hold land in trust for the tribe, a condition for building the tribal casino, but a year later U.S. District Court Judge William G. Young blocked the decision, ruling that the tribe was recognized about 73 years too late to qualify under the 1934 Indian Reorganization Act.
Slinging Bull is sensitive about phony cultural appropriation, just not in the usual way.
Fascinating, isn’t it, that a judge nixed this in 2016 — before President Trump was POTUS.
You can’t make this stuff up! LOL!!!!
https://www.fjc.gov/history/judges/young-william-g
1985 Reagan appointee - No Senate Vote
now they’ll say Ronnie had it in for the Indians. ;-)
Have the Hekawis gotten their share?
Someone needs a hotel and casino built? Talk about right up President Trump’s skill set.
liawatha has no problem with the courts that rule against President Trump, no matter how obviously wrong.
Does that make Trump an Indian giver?
Maxine/Pocahontas in 2020.
73 years too late under 1934 act: blame lies with Great White Father, FDR!
Heh... oh wow... I didn’t have any memory of that gag, and when a kid always watched that show. Backs to the cliff, shoulder to shoulder...
The fake indian is pissed as her stream of kickbacks were interrupted before they could get started.
Your version of that old joke was apparently a lot nicer than the one that went around our school in the early sixties. The tribe had a different name. A lot like WTF!?
Oh oh. White squaw of color send ‘em heap smoke signals. We in deep doo doo.
Squaw SpeakingBull, could you please stop these Indians from casinos? Jeff Benedict knew some of those Indians are not Native Americans. He wrote Without Reservations.
I guess Fauxahantus found out what happens when you kick a Pit Bull. They bite back.
#13. Yes, Prince Fauxchohantas lackum wampum from some possibly illegal Indian skullduggery. I say that Congress should investigate her ties to the tribe and find out how much they have contributed to her political campaigns.
And I don’t think they pay her in beaver pelts.
she need big puff
The Wamps.
There hasn’t been a living Wamp in that area for 100 years. Unless you count the graduates of Braintree high school.
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