Column: Cheyenne-Arapaho Tribes 'extort' casino

Wednesday, May 19, 2004  

"Annemarie Beck isn't worried about losing her home to the Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians. Neither is Gov. Bill Owens. Nor am I.

Beck owns a house in Castle Rock. Owens has a place in Centennial. I'm in Denver. All of us live within the 27 million acres the Cheyenne and Arapaho now say belongs to them because of 19th-century treaty violations, "aboriginal rights" and attempted genocide.

That's pretty high-minded language for people trying to extort a casino out of the residents of Colorado."

Get the Story:
Jim Spencer: Land claim has feel of extortion (The Denver Post 5/19)