[CPEO-MEF] Ft. Lewis (WA) and tribal lands

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

End of Fort Lewis Golf Course?

Nisqually Tribe wants to obtain, perhaps develop ancestral lands

ROB TUCKER AND MICHAEL GILBERT
Tacoma News Tribune (A)
May 17, 2007

The Nisqually Tribe wants to acquire property that includes Fort Lewis 
Golf Course next to DuPont.

“That’s our traditional homelands,” Cynthia Iyall, chairwoman of the 
tribal council, said Wednesday. “Like other tribes, we’re trying to 
regain what we can.”

The tribe might develop some of the land along Interstate 5 for the 
economic benefit of its 655 members, Iyall said. But it’s too early to 
tell if any changes would be made or how a transfer would work. She 
ruled out a casino.

...

Pierce County Councilman Dick Muri said he can’t support a land transfer 
to the tribe because he opposes any encroachment upon Fort Lewis or 
McChord Air Force Base. He said the tribe or anyone else is blocked from 
getting the land because the county has “reversionary rights” if the 
donation’s no longer used for military purposes, he said.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/story/64237.html

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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