Federal study backs up land claim by Tigua tribe

[douglas9]

Source: Associated Press

AUSTIN — A new federal study supports long-held claims by an American Indian tribe that the state of Texas stole 36 square miles of tribal territory in El Paso.

The 172-page report, completed last year, was obtained by the San Antonio Express-News under a Freedom of Information Act request.

Now, members of the Ysleta Pueblo del Sur, known as the Tiguas, are trying to determine what to do with the information in the study.

The territory, which the tribe lost in 1871 when the Texas Legislature used it to incorporate the town of Ysleta, is now home to tens of thousands of homes and businesses.

Read more: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/5471475.html

[xchrom]

1. recommend

[RC]

2. Take ownership and start collecting taxes to help the Lakota Nation

cement their claim. How can their ways be any worse than the White mans ways?

[LaurenG]

3. This is also the same tribe whose business was shut down

by the shenanigans of the republicans, Jack Abramoff and Michael Scanlon - both associates of Tom DeLay.

[Judi Lynn]

6. No wonder that name sounded familiar! Thanks.

They were absolute scum in the way they conducted themselves in reference to the Tiguas. They should be deathly afraid to ever look them in the face for the rest of their lives. Shame on these hideously twisted people.

Not content to let the sordid, tragic history of US European-descended criminal behavior toward Native Americans rest on its record, they went out of their way to make it even filthier.

[acmavm]

4. The land is THEIRS. Give it back.

[ConcernedCanuk]

5. I wish them luck, but it IS in the USA - so fairness is not to be expected . .

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From the posted article:

A spokeswoman for Gov. Rick Perry, Allison Castle, said, "Threatening a lawsuit 137 years late is questionable at best. No disrespect is intended, but Texas faces serious challenges on a number of issues and real problems that need to be addressed. This isn't one of them."

"Texas faces serious challenges on a number of issues and real problems that need to be addressed. This isn't one of them."

There

That's how much cooperation the NATIVES of the USA can expect from their invaders.

Treaty? - What treaty? We don't hold by no stinkin' treaty.

That's the USA's government SOP since day1

Promise, Renege, then Lie

USA SOP

[ursi]

7. I wish them luck too, But you are correct ... the US is not fair and the US

still invades sovereign nations and takes their lands, wealth and natural resources for greed.