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AUGUST 28, 2000

The Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe of South Dakota will not disenroll Mona Miyasato, a 56-year-old woman adopted into the tribe in the 1940s.

The tribe as a whole was scheduled to vote last Thursday, August 24, whether or not ti disenroll Miyasoto after the governing council voted to remove her from the rolls. But a quorum was never reached and the council voted instead on Friday to keep her enrolled.

Miyasoto was adopted into the tribe by the Alex Wakeman family and has been listed as a tribal member since the 1949s. But the council upheld a ruling by the enrollment panel who said there was no evidence the tribe, at the time of adoption, agreed to have Miyasoto as a member.

Miyasoto and her lawyer had said the move to disenroll her was based on greed and a desire to keep more of the tribe's casino shares to a smaller number of people.

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