And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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>Organization: The University of Michigan - Flint
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 11:53:06 EDT
>Subject: (Fwd) RE: Gun Lake Band denied federal status
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>The following article was printed in the Detroit News on Saturday, January
23,
>1999. If the city of Detroit is successful it could mean a legal
challenge at
>federal and state level of all issues regarding soverignty. Essentially the
>Gun Lake Band of Odawa was 99.9% assured of attaining federal status (which
>they have been working on for many years) when Dennis Archer, the mayor of
>Detroit repeated the ugly history of these lands by putting profit and greed
>and the interests of several million Detroiter's against 220 Odawa people
whose
>relations have been here longer than Anglo-Europans and African-Americans.
>Geez...talk about being outnumbered. Let's give our Gun Lake cousins some
>good strong support. Letters are more significant because e-mail messages
can
>be erased. The Gun Lake people need copies of all correspondence that you
may
>initiatie. Please read the article and then write a letter on behalf of the
>good people of the Gun Lake Band to:
>
>D. K. Sprague Detroit News Dennis Archer, Mayor
>John Shagonaby Letters to the Editor City of Detroit
>Gun Lake B and 615 W. Lafayette 2 Woodward Avenue
>P. O. Box 218 Detroit, MI 48226 Suite 1126
>Dorr, Michigan 49323 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Detroit, MI 48226
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>Headline:
>
>Detroit objects on eve of federal recognition for Indian tribe
>Casino competition feared, tribe s ays
>by Catherine Strong/Associated Press Writer
>
>The city of Detroit has temporarily blocked federal recognition of an Indian
>tribe in southwestern Michigan out of fear that the tribe will establish a
>rival casino near Detroit. The Match-e-be-nash-she-wish Band of
Potawatomi of
>Michigan was to receive federal recognition this week. The designation
would
>have allowed the tribe, also known as the Gun Lake Band, to receive the same
>federal health, education and housing subsidies that are enjoyed by
hundreds of
>other federally recognized tribes across the nation.
>
>The tribe was to have been recognized by midnight on Thursday, said the
tribe's
>attorney, Patricis marks. The city's filing, received by the tribe on
Tuesday,
>has blocked that from happening, at least temporarily. The federal
>government's Interior Board of Indian Appeals is requesting arguments from
both
>sides on whether the city of Detroit should have standing as an "interested
>party" to object to the tribal recognition. Comments are due in late
February.
>
>"What they're trying to do is despicable, unjust, mean-spirited, and just
pain
>ridiculous," said tribal chairman D. K. Sprague. "All they're interested
in is
>protecting their Las Vegas-backed casinos." The tribe is considering
locating
>a casino some 40 miles south of Detroit, Dennis J. Whittlesey, a lawyer
for the
>City of Detroit, said Friday. That would affect Detroit's attempts to
>successfully set up its own casinos, he said. "We think that makes
Detroit an
>interested party,: Whittlesey said.
>
>Ms. Marks argues Detroit does not have th elegal standing to object. She
also
>said the tribe was not planning a casino "in the immediate graphic area of
>Detroit," but instead was looking at a potential gaming operation in the
>"southwestern portion of the state." Bill Church, a spokesman for the
tribe,
>said the Gun Lake Band has submitted more than 4,000 pages of documents
>establishing the roots and continuing activities of the tribe in Allegan
>County, in the Dorr area, to qualify for federal recognition.
>
>Anne Bolton, superintendent of the Michigan Agency of the Bureau of Indian
>Affairas, said the city would have to prove there was a problem with the
>tribe's llineage, rather than that they wanted to build a casino. There are
>many other opportunities for parties to protest casino plans, she said.
"IT's
>not as though these casinos are going up overnight," Ms. Bolton said.
>
>About 60 of the tribe's 225 members traveled by bus to Washington, D.C. on
>Thursday to celebrate federal recognition with a traditional Indian ceremony
>despite the last-minute filing by the city. The city objected at the
every end
>of a 90-day waiting period, the last hurdle for the tribe.
>
>We chose to go ahead with the celebration," Church said, because tribal
members
>wanted to have "all the pride, all the good feelings." Instead, he said,
the
>city of Detroit has "made our people sad." Detroit had tried a year ago to
>become an interested party in the case because of reports the Gun Lake
Band was
>planning to establish a casino in Inkster, a western suburb of Detroit, with
>financial help from a Canadian gaming company. That plan was dropped and
the
>federal government found Detroit had no standing as an interested party.
>
>Detroit filed its latest objection when it found out about the potential
site
>south of Detroit, Whittlesey said. Neither Marks nor Whittlesesy specified
>exactly where the tribe might be attemption to acquire land.
>
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