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Connecticut Indian Land Claims Settlement : ウィキペディア英語版 | Connecticut Indian Land Claims Settlement
The Connecticut Indian Land Claims Settlement was an Indian Land Claims Settlement passed by the United States Congress in 1983.〔Connecticut Indian Land Claims Settlement, Pub. L. No. 98-134, 97 Stat. 851 (1983) (codified at 25 U.S.C. §§ 1751-60). See also 49 Fed. Reg. 6,411 (1984) (announcing the extinguishment).〕 The settlement act ended a lawsuit by the Mashantucket Pequot Tribe to recover 800 acres of their 1666 reservation in Ledyard, Connecticut, sold in 1855, allegedly in violation of the Nonintercourse Act that regulates commerce between Native Americans and non-Indians.〔W. Pequot Tribe of Indians v. Holdridge Enters., Inc., No. H76-cv-193 (D. Conn.).〕 The settlement act appropriated $900,000 to buy the disputed lands and transferred those lands and the state reservation to the federal government in trust. The settlement act permits the state of Connecticut to exercise civil and criminal, but not regulatory, jurisdiction over the lands. This laid the foundation for the Mashantucket Pequot to create the Foxwoods Resort Casino, the largest casino in the world by revenue and floor space, and (at one time) the most profitable.〔, 2001, at 16–17.〕 ==Background==
The Pequot War (1634–1638) all but exterminated the Pequots, dividing the captives up between the Mohegan and Narragansett tribes who had allied with the settlers.〔, 2001, at 25–40.〕 In 1651, John Winthrop the Younger persuaded the Connecticut Colony to create a 500-acre reservation for the Pequots in Noank, removing them from their previous places of residence.〔, 2001, at 41.〕 In 1666, the Connecticut General Assembly voted to create a 2,000 acre reservation for the "western" Pequots (the group previously in the custody of the Mohegans) in Ledyard, Connecticut; the eastern Pequots were given 280 acres in present-day North Stonington, Connecticut.〔, 2001, at 41–42; , 2004, at 37.〕 By 1790 (the year that Congress passed the first Nonintercourse Act), the reservation was only 1,000 acres.〔, 2004, at 37.〕 In 1855, Connecticut sold 800 of the remaining acres at $10/acre, putting the money into a state administered trust account for the Pequots.〔, 2001, at 51; , 2004, at 37.〕 In the 1970s, David Crosby of Pine Tree Legal Assistance, a non-profit law firm that was then litigating ''Joint Tribal Council of the Passamaquoddy Tribe v. Morton'' in Maine, arrived on the Pequot reservation to discuss the possibility of a land claim.〔, 2004, at 23–25.〕 Advised by Crosby, the Pequots established a non-profit corporation—Western Pequot Indians of Connecticut, Inc.—in 1974.〔, 2004, at 25.〕 In April 1975, Crosby finished his research and presented his findings to the Pequots.〔
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