JC> SB> That sort of purchasing is happening a lot, I think.  It gives
  > SB> landless groups a home base, even if no-one lives on that home base.
JC> In these cases, the purchasers are not landless. In the one case, they 
re
  > simply buying up land to protect it from development. In the other case 
the
  > are buying land for educational purposes.
JC> In the case of the Grande Ronde, the land was purchased to build a 
asino,
  > restaurant, hotel and RV park. They have a reservation.
I guess that does make it a little different from the east coast
Indians, most of whom have no reservations at all.  As a matter of fact,
the Pennsylvania government officially announced that it does not have
even one living Lenapi in the entire state.  Funny, I thought I knew a
couple.
                       Sondra
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