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MAY 10, 2001

The New London Day today runs a retrospective of the 25 years that have transpired since the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation filed its land claim lawsuit on May 10, 1976.

Although the article is much shorter than the controversial book Without Reservation, it probably will provide readers with more consistent information than the book ever did. It doesn't gloss over the lapses in time between the lawsuit to the tribe's settlement act to the opening of the high-stakes bingo parlor -- periods which author Jeff Benedict mashed into one to back up his claim the tribe's only purpose to team up with then Native American Rights Fund lawyer Tom Tureen in 1973 was for profits the tribe didn't see until 1987.

Tribal officials, as expected, declined to be interviewed by Ann Baldelli for her story.

Get the Story:
‘The Wonder Of It All’ (The New London Day 5/10)