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June 27, 2007

Tribes using casino revenues to restore ancient burial sites

  • The Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes have preserved a massacre site in Colorado, while the Nez Perce have taken control of worship sites in Idaho.
    • By JOHN CHRISTOFFERSEN
    Associated Press Writer

    NORWICH, Conn. — The Mohegans were wiped out long ago in the novel “The Last of the Mohicans,” but today the real American Indian tribe is flush with casino cash and using it to restore its proud past.

    The Connecticut tribe has reclaimed the Mohegan Royal Burial Ground and is restoring it to pay homage to its famed Chief Uncas and his descendants, who were mythologized in James Fenimore Cooper's 1826 work.


     
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