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About 400 years ago, a man named Tisquantum was kidnapped by an English explorer and taken to Spain as a slave. Miraculously, Tisquantum escaped and returned to the New World and to the coastal village where he once lived. In the years he was gone, his entire family died of disease.
A short time later, struggling, desperate English settlers arrived on the shores where his tribe, the Wampanoag, still lived. Tisquantum was key to their survival. Because of his time in Europe, he could speak English. He helped the settlers plant corn and survive winter, and he brokered a peace agreement, without which their colony ― and, by extension, the United States ― would have never existed. The first treaty and the first land grant to the white settlers in North America were translated by this man.
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On Sept. 7, Cedric Cromwell, the chairman of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe received a letter from Tara Sweeney, the assistant secretary of Indian affairs at the Department of the Interior, informing him that his tribe no longer fit the legal definition of Indian and would be losing its reservation status. This is the first time that land held under special status for tribes has been taken out of trust since Harry Trumans presidency. The same country that we helped form is now turned against us, Cromwell told HuffPost this week. Its quite frightening that our own country is attacking us during the holiday that we helped establish.
The legal battle over the Mashpee reservation started in 2016, when casino developer Neil Bluhm wanted to open a casino in a part of Massachusetts set aside for tribal gaming only. He financially backed a small group of residents from the city of Taunton, where the tribe planned to open a casino, to sue the Department of Interior, demanding the agency revoke the reservations trust status. In July 2016, the Taunton residents won.
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http://accesspressmag.com/trump-is-seizing-land-from-the-tribe-that-welcomed-the-pilgrims/
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That fucker is trying to kill us off all over again. I cannot believe the level of evil that orange monster has wrought. I'm sure this all stems from that asshole's conflicts with casinos. I hate that thing with the heat of a thousand suns.
Squinch
(50,774 posts)they chose to ally with the English in the very beginning.
This is sickening.
I am sorry, catbyte.
SunSeeker
(51,369 posts)shadowmayor
(1,325 posts)See Merrill v Oneida Nation case in the Supreme Court. 2005.
FakeNoose
(32,351 posts)He didn't like the competition from the Indian Reservations, but he's been out of casinos for what, 30 years now?
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)of land into a trust for the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe. The Wampanoags have been fighting for ownership of lands that have become increasingly valuable for many decades now, of course a moral issue, as well as legal and economic, but the current one isn't whether the tribe greeted the Pilgrims or conducted the first Thanksgiving but legal permission for a projected $1B casino project.
Timeline: Road to reservation for Mashpee Wampanoag
https://www.capecodtimes.com/news/20180907/timeline-road-to-reservation-for-mashpee-wampanoag
So, since the trust was set up in the Obama era the Wampoanoags have now struck out in the courts a couple of times and with Trump's Interior Department. With 2 branches down, the Wampanoag hopes lie with congress. Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey, MA's senators, have been involved on the tribe's side.
This article indicates the issue of whether tribes can claim trust status for newly acquired land under federal law, rather than state authority, hinges on the interpretation of now under federal jurisdiction in the 1934 law and how tribes can establish they had been in order to be able to set up land trusts under that federal law. Perhaps congress will choose to provide a tighter interpretation.
https://www.capecodtimes.com/news/20180907/interior-department-deals-blow-to-mashpee-wampanoag-tribe
jcmaine72
(1,773 posts)TwistOneUp
(1,020 posts)Not least because Tisquantum brought back antibodies with him from Europe.
sdfernando
(4,896 posts)TwistOneUp
(1,020 posts)Mariana
(14,849 posts)Antibodies don't spread from one person to another.
TwistOneUp
(1,020 posts)You breathe 'em out if you have even a tiny amount of fluid in your lungs.
You sneeze 'em out.
That's just two ways.
Mariana
(14,849 posts)You generally have to be exposed to the actual pathogen and grow your own antibodies. That's how vaccines work.
You can have other people's antibodies injected into you and that will work for a little while, but I don't think they were doing much of that in the 1600's.
You don't catch antibodies when people cough on you.
https://www2a.cdc.gov/nip/isd/ycts/mod1/courses/genrec/10215.asp?seg=B
pazzyanne
(6,518 posts)NOUN
a member of any of the indigenous peoples of North, Central, and South America, especially those of North America.
Seems to me that they meet the definition. Oh, wait! Ryan Zinke, that upstanding fellow " is head of the Department of Interior. I do hope that someone is looking into legal standing based on the letter's definition.
And then there is this:
Territorial sovereignty: Tribal authority on Indian land is organic and is not granted by the states in which Indian lands are located.
Plenary power doctrine: Congress, and not the Executive Branch or Judicial Branch, has ultimate authority with regard to matters affecting the Indian tribes. Federal courts give greater deference to Congress on Indian matters than on other subjects.
Trust relationship: The federal government has a "duty to protect" the tribes, implying (courts have found) the necessary legislative and executive authorities to effect that duty.[9]
potone
(1,701 posts)to this administration.
Stonepounder
(4,033 posts)This just ruined my appetite.
This Orange Pol Pot is evil incarnate.
TygrBright
(20,733 posts)Marrah_Goodman
(1,586 posts)I decided a while back to celebrate Thanksgiving as a remembrance that one part of my family tree was loving and giving to strangers, even though those strangers did not share the same goodness of spirit. That is the part of my spirit I want to feed.
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,283 posts)I am descended from new arrivals from shit-hole countries.
Marrah_Goodman
(1,586 posts)My native american ancestor is my great grandmother she moved to Plymouth from the west coast, but I love your after-party idea. Maybe then things would have turned out differently
Cha
(295,913 posts)from the Vile Monster trump.
I hope when he's Gone.. something can be done about this.
StevieM
(10,499 posts)jmowreader
(50,452 posts)Neil Bluhm, according to his OpenSecrets page, donates exclusively to Democrats. Besides the joy of wanting to fuck over everyone, why would Trump lift a finger to help him?
hack89
(39,171 posts)it was only taken into trust three years ago but previous to that it was owned by the Wampanoag tribe. It is still owned by the tribe.
This has everything to do with casino politics in Mass - the Taunton land was purchased in 2011 by the tribe for the express purpose of building a casino.