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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2002

Armed federal agents seized 227 head of cattle from two Western Shoshone sisters in Nevada, who fear their horses may be next.

Mary and Carrie Dann refuse to pay grazing fees to the Bureau of Land Management because they contend they have individual aboriginal land rights. No court has ever ruled on this issue.

Get the Story:
BLM suspends cattle roundup in northeast Nevada (The Reno Gazette-Journal 9/24)

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