Sentence examples for longstanding land from inspiring English sources

The Oneidas agreed to place no more than 25,000 acres of land into trust, effectively settling the tribe's longstanding land claims.

Much of Eastern Ontario, including North Frontenac, is the subject of a complex and longstanding land claim launched by the Algonquin Indian tribe.

The Oneida Indians of Wisconsin plan to announce today that they have acquired two large tracts in New York to set in motion a bid for a casino as part of a settlement of the tribe's longstanding land claims.

In a last-minute turnaround, the Oneida Indians and New York State have agreed to resume negotiations to settle a longstanding land dispute in central New York, the court-appointed mediator said yesterday.

"The Paterson administration is working to reach an agreement with the Stockbridge-Munsee Community, Band of Mohican Indians; the secretary of the interior; and a number of local governments to resolve a longstanding land claim," Jessica Bassett, a spokeswoman for the governor, said in a statement on Tuesday.

The Honduran government sent federal police officers to investigate the killings of at least nine people in a longstanding land dispute along the country's northern coast, but residents with guns and machetes kept the 50 officers from entering the area, Security Minister Jorge Rodas said Monday.

After two decades of impasse, Gov. George E. Pataki is close to reaching an agreement with the St . Regis Mohawktribe that would settle a longstanding land-claim lawsuit against the state.

A tentative proposal from Crown Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia for ending Middle East violence, based on a longstanding land-for-peace formula, would serve only to convince Israel that inflexibility toward ending its occupation works, Arab experts said yesterday.

In a number of cases, governments have been complicit or even encouraged this, arguing that the people have no legal tenure, though they may have had longstanding traditional land rights.

Here in the Sahara, the uranium boom has given new life to longstanding grievances over land and power.

These have roots in a longstanding competition over land and traditional and administrative power that began in the 1930s under Belgian colonial rule.