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Woman's fate rests in vot
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AUGUST 18, 2000 On August 24, 211 members of the Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe in South Dakota will decide if Mona Miyasoto is a member of the tribe or not. Miyasoto was adopted into the tribe by the Alex Wakeman family and has been listed as a tribal member since the 1940s. But the tribal council upheld a ruling by the enrollment panel saying there was no evidence the tribe, at the time of adoption, agreed to have Miyasoto as a member. Before the council, Pearl Wakeman testified she was at the council meeting in the 1940s and that the council had approved the move. Miyasoto and her lawyer say the move to disenroll her is based on greed and a desire to keep more of the tribe's casino shares to a smaller number of people. Source:Tribe's 211 to decide fate of 1 (The Sioux Falls Argus Leader 8/18)
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