tribal chair<\/a>. “We’ve been fighting our whole lives and will continue to fight for what’s rightfully ours.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nWeeden added that residents’ concerns regarding a casino coming to their neighborhood and changing the community are unjust. He said Taunton was indigenous land before it became their unrightful home.<\/p>\n
“Our ancestors paid the ultimate sacrifice so they [Taunton residents] could be here,”<\/strong> Weeden declared.<\/p>\nInterior hopes the appeals court dismisses the Littlefields challenge. In its December ruling of the Mashpee lands, the federal agency said their previous challenge “is moot.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Residents in Taunton, Massachusetts, aren’t giving up on their efforts to prevent a Native American casino resort from coming to town. The US Department of the Interior (DOI) late last year issued its third and supposedly final ruling on 321 acres of land owned by the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe. The federal agency, which oversees the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":203047,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,18456],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
Taunton Residents Contest Federal Decision Regarding Mashpee Land<\/title>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n