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Strategies & Market Trends : The Residential Real Estate Crash Index
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To: bentway who wrote (101012)1/20/2008 11:11:18 PM
From: Pogeu MahoneRead Replies (2) of 306849
 
According to this book about Foxwoods
there were no indians. A white boy on advice of a very smart lawyer told him at the tender age of 36 to start claiming he was an indian. He is now the chief.
It is UFB




Without Reservation: The Making of America's Most Powerful Indian Tribe and Foxwoods the World's Largest Casino (Hardcover)
by Jeff Benedict (Author)


The Mashantucket Pequot tribe of Connecticut were nearly penniless just a couple of decades ago. Today, they are the richest tribe in America and owners of the world's largest gambling casino. And, writes Jeff Benedict, their wealth is based on a fraud. Without Reservation will remind some readers of A Civil Action, by Jonathan Harr, for its novelistic approach to nonfiction as well as its earnestness. Benedict says that Congress was essentially tricked into granting tribal status to the group--a political process that allowed it to skirt the much more stringent recognition standards maintained by the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Benedict's reporting is provocative, showing, for instance, that Skip Hayward, the man who headed the tribe for many years, listed his race as "white" on the application for his first marriage license. And Benedict's narrative is character driven almost to a fault, though it makes reading about congressional hearings and backdoor politics enjoyable.


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