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METROPOLITAN

News Article

By: The Associated Press

Date: 07/19/96

A federal appeals court in Denver has lifted a restraining order against an Oklahoma Indian tribe that wants to develop a casino in Kansas City, Kan., allowing the tribe to buy a downtown building. The reversal was the latest move in the legal free-for-all between the Wyandotte Tribe of Oklahoma, Kansas state officials, U.S. Department of the Interior and Kansas Indian tribes.

The U.S. Appeals Court in Denver on Monday overturned a restraining order in connection with an attempt by the Wyandotte tribe to put land next to a cemetery in Kansas City, Kan., into a federal trust. The tribe claims to be a Kansas nation because of its history, although its reservation is in northeast Oklahoma. .......

.....The governor's office and the Indian tribes are still fighting a lawsuit over the trust, but a second lawsuit has been filed in Topeka by the Kickapoo Tribe of Kansas and the Kansas Wyandot Nation against Babbitt, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and the Wyandottes of Oklahoma....

Assurances have been given by Chief Bearskin that the development will not impose on the cemetery proper.

However, you are invited to visit the following website to to read the COMPLETE history of this matter and register any comments you may have...

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