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Commissioners raise concern after DOI solicitor opinion on United Keetoowah Band land-into-trust
Summary
Commissioners called a late-administration Department of the Interior legal opinion that the United Keetoowah Band may take land into trust within the Cherokee Nation reservation "unprecedented" and said the opinion could threaten tribal sovereignty; they said the current administration is likely to review the opinion.
Commissioners discussed a Department of the Interior solicitoropinion issued at the end of the previous federal administration that, according to commission speakers, states the United Keetoowah Band (UKB) has authority to have 76 acres taken into trust for gaming within the Cherokee Nation reservation.
Kim, a commission member, described the opinion as issued "on the very last day of work day of the…
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