Small Tribes Get Locked Out In Indian Casino Wars

Kansas City Star: Politics, Kansas City Star: Politics
Sun, 07/08/2012 - 1:00am

As the great-great-grandniece of Chief Seattle, Cecile Hansen got a $64 check in 1971, her share of a long-delayed settlement after the Duwamish Tribe ceded nearly 55,000 acres of land to the federal government more than a century earlier.

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