Posted on 05/12/2018 12:40:47 PM PDT by DFG
She’s never been a gambling fan, but Sen. Elizabeth Warren is pushing federal legislation to help deliver a casino to a tribe with a checkered past as she struggles to neutralize her “Pocahontas” problem.
Her bill, introduced in March with fellow Massachusetts Democrat Sen. Edward Markey, would allow the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe to build a $1 billion gaming resort about halfway between Boston and Cape Cod even though a federal court blocked the project in 2016.
The Senate bill and its House companion have drawn cheers from tribal leaders eager to resume construction on the lavish complex while stirring resentment among locals irritated at the prospect of Congress big-footing the ongoing Interior Department review.
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Follow the wampum!
Interesting to see what the outcome will be
The BIA can place land in trust for tribes that were “under federal jurisdiction”
in 1934. The Mashpees didn’t gain formal recognition of their status until 2007.
https://www.indianz.com/IndianGaming/2018/02/08/mashpee-wampanoag-tribe-awaits-trump-tea.asp
there are like 5 full-bloods left -
Teepee never empty when frost on nose of buffalo.
(It lose in translation.)
So basically she can buy the whole tribe, or get Soros to buy it for her.
Another evil libtard b**** nothing more
So she is trying to buy ethnicity?
give her some cheap beads and send the lying uka-shana fake redskin packing!
Lie away ha and a fake tribe. Seems right
How!
Princess Grey Beaver Fauxcahontas Liewatha Crockajawea speakum with forked tongue about filthy capitalist dollars since she rollum in 15,000,000 of wampum. Leadum nation to new socialist future, ugh. But cannot controllum temper big as sky; make nuclear blast lookum like smoke signal.
FWIW, I have as much real Ocmulgee blood as she has fake Cherokee blood. My cousins in OK married Cherokees; their kids are Cherocreeks.
Ugh!
;^)
Granting licence to the destroyer of the spirit.
Gaming with personal resource is sin to family.
Just my opinion.
The Mashpee version goes:
Car never stay on road when redness on nose of Kennedy.
Me hear. Kennedy love firewater.
You can buy tribe memberships now?
LIAWATHA bribing her way to legitimacy... how very DEMONcrat of her.
No, but I can go hunting any time of the year I want, with no bag limits. Same with fishing.
;^)
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