[CPEO-MEF] REUSE, TRIBES: Navy surplus land, Aquidneck Island, RI

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Indian Affairs renews bid for Navy land for Narragansetts

Richard Salit
Providence Journal (RI)
February 23, 2010

The Bureau of Indian Affairs, one month after announcing that it would 
cease pursuing 260 acres of surplus Navy land on Aquidneck Island for 
the Narragansetts, now says it will revive its bid to acquire the 
properties at no charge on behalf of the local tribe.

The move, one in a series of starts and stops in disposing of the land, 
throws yet another potential roadblock before community plans for the 
coastal properties.

"The tribe is anxious to acquire the property ... because the land is 
within the tribe's aboriginal territory and the acquisition would enable 
the tribe to provide services, job training, and jobs to tribal members 
in the surrounding area," Larry Echo Hawk, the bureau's assistant 
secretary, wrote in a letter stamped Feb. 2 and received by the Defense 
Department on Friday.

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For the entire article, see
http://newsblog.projo.com/2010/02/indian-affairs-renews-bid-for.html

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Lenny Siegel
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