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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2002

The Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma says its claim to ancestral land in Kansas is being distorted.

The tribe has been negotiating with the federal government over a 9,000-acre former Army site in Kansas. Claiming it as a former reservation, the tribe asked Secretary of Interior Gale Norton to transfer the land.

But according to a local county, those talks are failing because the tribe now claims 1.6 million acres. A tribal spokesperson refuted the assertion.

In July, the tribe filed a lawsuit in a federal court in Washington, D.C., over the land.

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