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MONDAY, MAY 19, 2003

"The man across the table in a dark downtown New London restaurant was wearing a wool ski hat, pulled tight over his forehead and ears. This seemed especially strange, given the balmy spring weather outside. By the end of the interview he explained he wasn't trying to be rude. It was a disguise.

"Call me paranoid," he says, explaining that he wanted to carefully hide his identity from his interviewer. “But it's less likely you'd ever recognize me if you saw me again.”

More specifically, he says he is worried that his Web site, tribalnation.com, which chronicles some unflattering aspects of the Mashantucket Pequots' Foxwoods Resort Casino — including suicides, drunken driving and embezzling by addicted gamblers — will anger tribal members.

The extensive site also includes the names and addresses of all tribal members, who are generally known to covet their privacy, and, under the headline, "350 adult Pequot tribal members, 263+ arrests," an account of some of the alleged criminal activity on the reservation."

Get the Story:
David Collins: Tribalnation.com: News Or Bigotry? (The New London Day 5/19)

Relevant Links:
Tribal Nation - http://www.tribalnation.com