Native Opinion Podcast An American Indian Perspective

Native Opinion Episode 32 “What price will we pay” To Reach our show: hosts@nativeopinion.com Twitter: @nativeopinion Facebook.com/nativeopinion Leave us voice mail: https://www.speakpipe.com/nativeopinion Hosts: Michael Kickingbear & David Gray Owl. Guest: Michael's Son joins the show from California ARTICLE 1: Federal officials: Eastern Pequots, second tribe have ‘exhausted’ recognition efforts Published June 07. 2016 6:44PM | Updated June 08. 2016 1:00AM By SUSAN HAIGH HARTFORD (AP) — The federal Bureau of Indian Affairs has notified two state-recognized tribes in Connecticut that they've exhausted both administrative and judicial remedies for gaining federal recognition, a claim rebuffed by the leaders of both tribes who vowed to keep pursuing their applications. R. Lee Fleming, the director of the Office of Federal Acknowledgement, said "the only available remedy" now available to the Historical Eastern Pequot Tribe in North Stonington and the Schaghticoke Tribal Nation in Kent is Congress passing l