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Schumer supports off-reservation casino

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Sen. Charles Schumer (D-New York) said the Stockbridge-Munsee Community, Band of Mohican Indians of Wisconsin deserves an off-reservation casino in New York.

Schumer is asking Interior Secretary Ken Salazar to approve the tribe's land-into-trust application. The tribe wants to open a casino in the Catskills, a region about 90 minutes north of New York City.

Stockbridge-Munsee ancestors lived in New York before being removed to Wisconsin.

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Schumer pushes for trust land in Catskills (The Oneida Dispatch 3/18)