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August 16, 2017

Tribes sue Oregon over highway site

GOVERNMENT CAMP, Ore. (AP) — Native American tribe elders in Oregon are suing the state based on claims that it destroyed a sacred site to expand a highway.

The Oregonian/OregonLive reports Hereditary Chiefs of the Klickitat and Cascade Tribes of the Yakama Nation filed the suit last week in federal court alongside a third tribal elder with the Confederated Tribes of Grande Ronde and two nonprofit groups.


 
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