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JANUARY 11, 2001

Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal is asking for about $1.3 million to help the state monitor and fight tribes in his state seeking federal recognition.

Part of the money would be used to hire six new members of his legal staff but $1 million would be used to hire genealogists, historians, and anthropologists who would look into petitions filed by tribes seeking federal acknowledgment from the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Along with three southeastern towns, the state is challenging the pending recognition of the Eastern Pequot and Paucatuck Eastern Pequot Tribes and the Golden Hill Paugussett Tribe.

The state and the town have spent upwards of $2 million challenging tribal recognition and attempts by the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation to annex 165 acres of land to their reservation.

Get the Story:
Blumenthal wants recognition efforts closely monitored (The New London Day 1/11)

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