Only if we can give them NYC and they'll take it. :)
Indians vs Limo Liberals. This I've got to see.
Pass the popcorn.
This was tried several years ago in Mashpee on Cape Cod and included all land. This dispute clouded all real estate titles and froze sales and development for years.
This sounds like Mexico trying to take back Cali AZ New Mex and Texas. They can't even take care of what they have..
Why only non-residential??
They should go for the whole enchilada!
I got plenty of popcorn.
When I bought my house in 1992, I noticed some language in the title portion that made me uncomfortable. I forget the words now, but it basically said that there was no claim against my house but that if prior claims were enforced (read Indians), I could lose my house. Titles are being written with reclamation as a not impossible event.
On a side note, I'm not sure I even want to know how a tribe called the Shiney C#ck Indians got their name.
And if there is a good treaty basis for the claim, the Indians will win, too.
Tibikak ishkwata!
The night is passing!
Of course, the Indians don't REALLY want all that land. What they want is some of it on which to build the casino, and concessions to allow the casino to be built. The price of making the Indians go away and uncloud a lot of titles of very well-heeled owners will be to simply give them what they want, which is really only a portion of what they have asked for.
What they really want is for the state to get out of the way, let them open and operate their casino, and a plot of land to do it.
The state and the town, of course, characteristically resist everything. Therefore, the club has to be brought out: treaties and Federal courts and lots and lots of private citizens in a tony area facing clouds on title. This usually breathes sense into the states and causes them to come to the bargaining table.
And at the end of the day, the tribe will get its casino of fair terms, with profit sharing with the community. Everyone wins, and we already know the outcome. Why we have to go through the fight every time is a puzzlement.
Usually it is because states are arrogant, and locals in rich areas think that they are going to be able to parley their wealth into political clout to beat the Indians and treaties in Federal courts. It never works.
Sit down, smoke the peace pipe and make a deal now.
It's less expensive and stressful for everyone that way.
they can take a cue from Lt. Governor of California, Bustamonte, who supports violent overthrow for the return of ancestral lands (MeCHA)
Let's just declare war on them and kill them if they don't retract the lawsuit.
Maybe Steven Spielberg and TNT should have called their new mini-series "Into the East".
Pay them off. Money is the name of the game.
BWAHAHAHAHA! Love it!
The Indian population is fortunate that the Neanderthals and other hominidae peoples are not around (at least not in large numbers) to trump their claim on "ancestral lands".
The "tribe" is not a tribe at all. They are a bunch of people who have no claim to the Shinnecock tribal rights any greater than you or me. Now they want to organize and build a casino, and are using this lawsuit as a way to pressure the local authorities to approve their plan.
This is blackmail, plain and simple. The court should tell these folks to just get stuffed.
In 1640, English colonists entered Shinnecock land. There they met peaceful, resourceful people who had been in the same geographical area for thousands of years. The Shinnecocks' land extended eastward to the Easthampton town line and westward to the Brookhaven town line, with the Atlantic Ocean to the south and Peconic Bay to the north.
In a gesture of friendliness, the Shinnecocks parceled out eight square miles of land to the settlers. Numerous unfair land transactions had by the 1850s reduced the tribe's holdings to its present eight hundred acres. A legislative act in 1859 designated this small neck of land as the Shinnecock Indian Reservation. It is located two miles west of the village of Southampton, New York, in Suffolk County.
This is great! I hope all those limousine liberals do the right thing and pay restitution to those poor persecuted (for centuries) Native Americans. It's just the right thing to do ...
This ought to be good. The Indians against Teddy!
what's the status of limitations on grand theft? pretty sure it's less than 100+ years...