Three years ago, Indian Country Today and the Wall Street Journal engaged in a war of words over the Journal's conservative editorials against Indian gaming.
Now, ICT is going after another journalistic institution. "Competence on Indian issues continues to be in doubt at The New York Times, going now from simple inaccuracy to a discernable bias for termination," ICT says in a new editorial.
ICT says The Times misinterpreted last week's rulings that vacated the recognition decisions for two Connecticut tribes. ICT says the paper "linguistically and effectively wipes out four centuries of their recorded history and existence as a people stretching back millennia" by misinterpreted to the Eastern Pequot Tribal Nation and the Schaghticoke Tribal Nation as "groups" instead of tribes.
" We take issue with the Times' reporting perspective on this story. It shows severe unawareness of these two peoples' recognition by the state, with reservations predating American independence," ICT says.
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Editorial: Termination at the Times?
(Indian Country Today 5/19)
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