More Indian trouble on Martha's Vineyard
Aquinnah Wampanoag Tribe severs land pact with town
February 24, 2013| By Walter Brooks
Under the Land Use agreement the tribe would have
needed a
town permit to develop a casino or bingo parlor at their community center.
In an email sent to the Vineyard Gazette that stated, “the agreement required the tribe to relinquish too many rights... [and] unnecessarily compromised tribal sovereignty,” Aquinnah Wampanoag Tribal leader Cheryl Andrews-Maltais severed a six-year-old agreement between the town of Aquinnah and the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head.
The tribe sent a similar message to the Selectmen of the Town of Aquinnah.
In March of 2007 a new chapter in the sometimes strained relationship between the town and Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) was resolved when voters at a special town meeting endorsed a land use agreement that would attempt to resolve a longstanding jurisdictional dispute between the two governments.
The Vineyard Gazette reports that a six-year-old agreement between the town of Aquinnah and the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) that spelled out a detailed process for government-to-government collaboration on land use projects has been severed by the tribe.
Andrews-Maltais's termination letter comes as her tribe pursues plans to build a casino in southeastern Massachusetts.
The tribe also converted the tribal community center in Aquinnah to a Class II bingo facility.
Read the Vineyard Gazette story here.
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town permit to develop a casino or bingo parlor at their community center.
In an email sent to the Vineyard Gazette that stated, “the agreement required the tribe to relinquish too many rights... [and] unnecessarily compromised tribal sovereignty,” Aquinnah Wampanoag Tribal leader Cheryl Andrews-Maltais severed a six-year-old agreement between the town of Aquinnah and the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head.
The tribe sent a similar message to the Selectmen of the Town of Aquinnah.
In March of 2007 a new chapter in the sometimes strained relationship between the town and Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) was resolved when voters at a special town meeting endorsed a land use agreement that would attempt to resolve a longstanding jurisdictional dispute between the two governments.
The Vineyard Gazette reports that a six-year-old agreement between the town of Aquinnah and the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) that spelled out a detailed process for government-to-government collaboration on land use projects has been severed by the tribe.
Andrews-Maltais's termination letter comes as her tribe pursues plans to build a casino in southeastern Massachusetts.
The tribe also converted the tribal community center in Aquinnah to a Class II bingo facility.
Read the Vineyard Gazette story here.
Related Content:
Aquinnah Tribe votes to bring slots to Martha's Vineyard
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