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Opinion: Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe may never see a casino

While the chairman of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe Cedric Cromwell continued his desperate, feeble attempts with a media blitz to threaten the Massachusetts Gaming Commission before their vote on Thursday on whether or not to open Region C to commercial bidders, he may have finally realized that his fairytale dream of having a casino anywhere may never come to fruition. In his statement to the Taunton Daily Gazette “threats to sue our tribe, the commonwealth of Massachusetts and Department of the Interior will not deter us from building a first class destination resort casino in Taunton.”

Well, Cedric, there are a few problems with that statement you made. First of all, we would not sue the tribe. The tribe has never been under federal jurisdiction, and this is proven in documents that show the BIA did not ignore you, or pass you by, but did in fact, on several occasions, refuse to intervene and help your tribe because the federal government declared the Mashpee Wampanoags were state citizens, in fact the BIA just recently declined to help the Mashpee Wampanoags with the fraudulent elections back in February of this year. So, for centuries the BIA and the DOI have and still do consider the Mashpee Wampanoags state citizens who are not, nor ever have been, under federal jurisdiction.