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JULY 26, 2000

Laurence M. Hauptman, a history professor at the State University of New York at New Paltz, said New York acted in "bad faith" in buying land from the Cayuga Nation.

The state obatained about 64,000 acres of land from the tribe in various treaties it sought with the Cayuga. The land deals were never approved by the federal government, a key requirement of the 1790 Non-Intercourse Act.

The testimony comes in the final phase of the Cayuga Nation land claims settlement. A jury in February decided the land was worth $36.9 million.

US District Court Judge Neal P. McCurn. McCurn must now decide how much interest, if any, to award the tribe for the stolen land.

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