Sentence examples for settle land claims from inspiring English sources
The Pataki administration has been negotiating for years to settle land claims with a half-dozen New York tribes, hoping to use the promise of casinos, rather than taxpayer dollars, to persuade tribes to drop their claims.
Five months after Gov. George E. Pataki announced an agreement with the St . Regis Mohawktribe to settle land claims, the deal has become bogged down in tribal politics and a newly elected Indian government has said it wants to rewrite the accord.
Prominent First Nations people include Joe Capilano, who met with King of the United Kingdom, Edward VII, to speak of the need to settle land claims and Ovide Mercredi, a leader at both the Meech Lake Accord constitutional reform discussions and Oka Crisis.
On one level, his story is first-person history, for it was in Alaska that the government tried something radically different in settling land claims of indigenous people.
Eventually with higher compensation for settling land claim and heavy pressure on Seyag residents to relocate (through denial of municipal services and risking house demolitions there) increasing number of Bedouin resettled in the towns.
They settle land and water disputes and dictate school curriculums.
"The tribe wants to settle the land claims to get some land for the tribe to live on as a whole," Mr. Piper said.
State officials have tried for years to settle the land claims, in some cases offering the prospect of lucrative casinos if the tribes drop the claims.
"The governor said right at the outset: you want a casino, I want to settle the land claims," Mr. Waterman said.
This partly overlaps a proposed reserve for an Indian tribe that eschews contact with the modern world.AIDESEP complains that governments have been slow to settle Indian land claims and grant titles, and quick to grant concessions to oil companies and loggers.
As chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, he authored a bill to establish a court that would settle disputed land claims stemming from the Gadsden Purchase and the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo.
