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FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 2003

Two Western Shoshone sisters in Nevada are moving hundreds of their horses out of state to prevent federal officials from seizing them.

Mary and Carrie Dann contend that they have a right to graze livestock on ancestral tribal land that was promised to the Western Shoshone Nation in an 1863 treaty. But the Bureau of Land Management says the land now belongs the federal government.

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Nev. Sisters in Land Dispute Move Horses (AP 1/17)

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