[Libloather]

Fox News just reported on this. The reporter mentioned the 300 years back rent.

[Eva]

The local Indians are pulling this in Whatcom County, WA. They claim that they were cheated when they sold the property, so they should get it back. They have claimed the beach in front of all the houses and won't even let the homeowners walk on it. The leftist judges usually side with the Indians.

[petpeeve]

huh...Next we'll see the same as what happened in Canada with the self government/policing. Total bunch of BS!!!

[Spok]

This would be hysterically funny if it wasn't for the fact that they can probably find a judge to whom this makes perfect sense.

[sofaman]

What is the world coming to....first the Israelis are forced to return the West Bank and Gaza to the Palestinians and now we're on the hot seat to give Long Island back to the Shinnecock (can I say that on FreeRep?) Native Americans...I refuse to use the word "Indians" unless preceded by the word Cleveland.

[B.O. Plenty]

Dang, this will be fun!...but I think The Shinnecock Indians ought to save their money....put it into a casino or into cigarette stores....

[Para-Ord.45]

The "indians" were not here first,

Kennewick Man

http://www.mnh.si.edu/arctic/html/kennewick_man.html

[gcruse]

1703? Are we required to enforce contracts from the British colonials? Tell it to Blair.

[fso301]

Let them sue the British for losing the Revolutionary War.

[Kozak]

Right after they pay the 300 years of back taxes.

[muir_redwoods]

"...The reporter mentioned the 300 years back rent."

Do they have the 300 years back taxes ready?

[Triggerhippie]

Pro-Amerind PC sensibilities v. Ultra liberal NY Dorks...

How could I be less concerned? Unless they both lost, I'll only be half-happy.

[ProudVet77]

The liberals own the Hamptons. The Indians don't have a chance.

[aculeus]

The Shinnecocks are well-known for including lots of mixed race folks.

(Not that there's anything wrong with that.)

[MinuteGal]

The monied Hampton liberals are in a tough spot over this.......a real moral dilemna.

After all, the Indians....oops, Native Americans, are living relics of the Noble Savage, the protectors of the environment who lived peacefully together in sylvan forests before the whiteys came with genocide on their minds and small pox in their glands.

What to do? Since "moral" is not in the liberal lexicon, and the fat kats like the Kennedys are fighting the windmills off shore from their compounds, we do have precedence.

The Hamptonian liberals will screw their Noble Savages right into the ground.

Leni

[Mr. Jeeves]

Attorney John Peebles - who represents the Shinnecock Indians - says he will file a lawsuit in U-S District Court in Central Islip this week seeking the land and billions of dollars in damages.

Jack and Lizzie Grubman will cover it. ;)

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

Does it include Alec Baldwin's house? There may be a silver lining... [irony]

[cmsgop]

LOL! And to think Howard Stern just bought a 22 Million $ Empty Lot there,

[Labyrinthos]

New York State has a long history of screwing Indian Nations out of their land by breaking treaties and violating Federal Law in the process. With that said, the Sinnecock claim predates the State of New York by 74 years, and the 10 year statute of limitations to recover real property should have expired back in 1787. Although I would like nothing more than to see the limousine liberal scum dirtbags who have ruined the Hamptons lose their land to the Shinnecocks (or at least have a 20 story hotel and casino block the view from their $30 million trophy houses), one would think that the claim is a couple hundred years too late.

[AJ in NYC]

When I was a kid my father took me to what was then called "The French Fort" in Syracuse, NY (now called St. Marie Among The Iroquois) to research a report on Thanksgiving and what were then called "Indians". I'll never forget this obese, greasy haired, nasal voiced woman who began yelling at me, "What you call Thanksgiving is the worst day for us. It reminds us how your people stole the land from our people." She went off on a tirade about white people until my father's temper kicked in and he cut her short. "HIS people are from Italy lady." It wasn't until I was in college, studying the local history that I learned of the bloody, warring history of the Iroquois. How they absolutely decimated the Algonquin people and (can anyone say hypocrisy) stole their land.