[nativestudies-l] NEWS: CT officials claim they can't stop destruction on tribal land

[Alyssa Mt. Pleasant]

>From H-Amindian list-serve:

"State Says it Can't Stop Destruction on Schaghticoke Land," Gale
Courey Toensing, Indian Country Today, March 10, 2008.  Copyright 2008
Indian Country Today.  All Rights Reserved.  Full text available at:
http://www.indiancountry.com/content.cfm?id=1096416754

"When Connecticut Gov. Jodi Rell testified at a Senate Committee on
Indian Affairs hearing in May 2005, she claimed that there were no
tribal reservations left in the state. 'We have few expanses of open
or undeveloped land. Historical reservation lands no longer exist.
They're now cities and towns filled with family homes, churches and
schools,' Rell said at the hearing, which is available at
http://indian.senate.gov.  Now the state says it can't stop a
non-Schaghticoke man from cutting down trees and excavating land on
the Schaghticoke Tribal Nation's 400-acre reservation in Kent."