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The Quinault Tribe voted unani mously to set aside $100,000 of their judgment fund money to pur chase for the Tribe land which has been alienated and is now for sale. Tribal leader James Jackson told the Council that buying land with the government money would eliminate losing land within the reservation boundaries as has been happening when land is sold to non-Indians. He said that some of the allot ments which are for sale have Gm~ ber on them and that the Tribe could profit from the purchase, and added that many allottees want to sell to the Tribe, which would buy only from those who were will ing to sell. It was pointed out that $100,000 would not buy back all the land which has been sold, but it was understood that this would be a be ginning of a program to get as much land as possible back under Tribal ownership. Jackson stated that another problem facing the Quinault Tribe is that of jurisdiction. He said “We have the State of Washing ton saying that we are not under State jurisdiction, and the federal government saying that we are, and the Quinault Tribe saying that we are not. In the meantime, there will be no change in Law and order on the Quinault Reservation in the foreseeable future. It is going to require some more work on the part of the Quinault Tribe and some top level help in trying to get the Govern ment to return us to Federal jur isdiction. This, I think, is one of the major problems that we have facing us today.” Join the Star-Spangled Savings Plan
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Navajo Times
Window Rock, Arizona, US
Thu, Jul 27, 1967
Page 13
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