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Great piece about Mashpee Wampanoags, Taunton (and Middleborough) Casinos and Gaming in Region C

March 24, 2013 By purplemouse

Kudos to “Bellicose Bumpkin” for his open letter to the Governor, state Senator Pacheco, et al, regarding a tribal casino in southeastern Mass. Bumpkin links to a letter with supporting documentation from Middleborough attorney Adam Bond:

Please take a look at this letter that was submitted to the Bureau of Indian Affairs asking them to reject the Mashpee’s application for trust land in East Taunton – or anywhere else for that matter. It references their own letters, several of them in fact, that state emphatically, clearly, unequivocally … and repeatedly that the Mashpee Wampanoag were NOT UNDER FEDERAL JURISDICTION prior to 1934. Were not. Understand that I am not just giving my interpretation – this evidence actually uses the words “not under federal jurisdiction”. Snap. Slam. Dunk. Done.

He concludes that a Carcieri fix is the only recourse:

The ONLY … again ONLY way the Mashpee can get reservation land is by … literally … an act of Congress.

 

 

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Filed Under: User Tagged With: BIA, Carcieri, casino, gaming, indian-gaming-regulatory-act-of-1988, marc-pacheco, Taunton

Comments

  1. Christopher says

    March 25, 2013 at 12:02 am

    The state should have plenary authority to grant gaming license as it sees fit and the tribes should have to bid for them like anyone else.

    • stomv says

      March 25, 2013 at 8:49 am

      is just plain antiquated. I know it’s complicated, and I have no idea what we *should* be doing, but what we do now doesn’t seem to make a bit of sense.

  2. farnkoff says

    March 25, 2013 at 9:54 am

    there’s always the prospect of legal technicalities to achieve the NIMBY’s noble goals.

    • kirth says

      March 25, 2013 at 12:14 pm

      When it comes to casinos, a lot of us are Not In Anybody’s Back Yard types. Casino gambling is a bad idea, regardless of whose town it’s inflicted on. It wasn’t that the moral arguments failed, it’s that the political system did.

    • stomv says

      March 25, 2013 at 2:29 pm

      do you mean: following the rules upon which society agreed upon?

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