Mashpee Wampanoag tribal chair: "At 4:00 pm today -- on the very day that the United States has reached a record 100,000 confirmed cases of the coronavirus and our Tribe is desperately struggling with responding to this devastating pandemic --
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-the Bureau of Indian Affairs informed me that the Secy of the Interior has ordered that our reservation be disestablished & that our land be taken out of trust. Not since the termination era of the mid-20th century has a Secretary taken action to disestablish a reservation."
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Mashpee tribal chair: "These are our lands, these are the lands of our ancestors, and these will be the lands of our grandchildren. This Administration has come and it will go. But we will be here, always.“
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"We the People of the First Light have lived here since before there was a Secretary of the Interior, since before there was a State of Massachusetts, since before the Pilgrims arrived 400 years ago."
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Blessings to you and all Wampanoag families. We stand with you!
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Why does this sound like an act of war on their side?
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Because it damned well is.
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Such heartbreak. How much can people bear?
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Yet another horrible act by the federal government. Disgusted.
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