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Column: Tribes seeking recognition only for 'big wampum'
Monday, February 9, 2004
"Let's see. The last full-blooded Schaghticoke was buried on the reservation in Kent in 1913. By 1926, the state was referring to the tribe as a "remnant." There are huge, decades-long gaps in the tribe's leadership and continuity as a political community.
Like most or all of the other tribes in Connecticut, the Schaghticokes are a reconstituted tribe. Such groups are not supposed to receive federal recognition.
Nonetheless, the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs reversed an earlier finding and granted recognition and "government-to-government relationship" to the Schaghticokes. This is absurd, it is wrong and it must be stopped."
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