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Monday, 05 June 2006 |
Eastern Pequot Tribal Nation Chairman Marcia Flowers will be visiting the Oneida Indian Nation of New York for the first time in June as a featured speaker at the United South and Eastern Tribes' semiannual meeting.
The meeting will take place June 5 - 8 at Turning Stone Resort and Casino in Verona, N.Y. The Oneida Nation will host the event.
''I've known a lot of Oneida members over the years, but I've never gone to their home, so that will be good. I'm really looking forward to it,'' Flowers said.
This will be Flowers' fourth appearance at a USET conference, but the first since Columbus Day last year when Interior Associate Deputy Secretary and Acting Assistant Secretary of Indian Affairs James Cason reversed the tribe's federal acknowledgement, which was granted in 2002 by former Assistant Secretary of Indian Affairs Kevin Gover. The reversal followed a three-year appeal process and ferocious opposition from Connecticut officials. |
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