Since the Bureau of Indian Affairs federally acknowledged the Schaghticoke Tribal Nation in January 2004, then reversed its decision in October 2005, the State of Connecticut has allowed a non-Schaghticoke trespasser to destroy areas of the tribe’s 400-acre reservation under the pretext of a “leadership conflict,” Chief Richard Velky told Indian Country Today in the first interview he has given since then.
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