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             -- CASH VS. AN ALLEGIANCE TO HERITAGE --
* For Western Shoshone, U.S. money could end all claims to former lands.
Many are ready to give in. *
- source: "L.A. Times" =//= February 9, '00 -

SOUTH FORK RESERVATION, Nev. -- At an isolated subdivision here, boxy
government housing perches on a scrub brush hillside, wood stoves provide
the only heat and televisions seem to drone all day -- a sad refrain for a
people who have lost their place.
   At least a third of the Shoshone Indians on this reservation don't have
jobs. Those who do usually struggle to make a living on a tiny sliver of
their once vast homeland.
   So it's hard to say what is more surprising: that people here have $116
million in the bank, or that some of them don't want the money.
   But "money in the bank" takes on an entirely different cast when the bank
is the U.S. Treasury and when withdrawal could end a tribe's claim to land
that it has longed for since white settlers began to push the native people
aside more than 150 years ago.
   After decades of impasse, a resolution may be at hand this year to
distribute the fortune, payment for 23.6 million acres taken from the
western bands of the Shoshone tribe more than a century ago. Tribal members
have persuaded at least one of Nevada's U.S. senators, Harry Reid, to
introduce legislation in coming weeks that could disburse $20,000 to every
Shoshone man, woman, and child."

complete story at below url=>
http://www.latimes.com/news/state/20000209/t000012860.html
 

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