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Bill against tribe's recognition called termination
Friday, April 29, 2005
A bill seeking to repeal the federal recognition of the Schaghticoke Tribal Nation of Connecticut is being called a form of termination.
''Other tribes should worry about this bill because if it passes, what's to stop another congressman from doing the same in his state?" Michael Pane, the tribe's vice chairman, told Indian Country Today. ''This is not the kind of bill this tribal nation would support,'' added Arthur Henick, a spokesman for the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation, also in Connecticut.
Former assistant secretary Kevin Gover, who left the Bureau of Indian Affairs before the tribe's case came up for review, agreed the bill is bad. "'The bill is clearly terminationist in nature," he told the paper. ''Other tribes should be, and will be, alarmed."
Rep. Nancy Johnson (R-Connecticut) introduced the bill.
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