Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...federal jury in Boston declared on Friday afternoon the Wamponoag Indians of Mashpee were not a tribe on certain legally crucial dates, a decision which may hinder the Indians' attempt to claim a large land area in Mashpee, Mass...
...white jury of eight men and four women said Friday the Wamponoags were not a tribe in August 1976 when they filed the suit, nor in 1790, the date of a federal law that forms the basis for the land claim went into effect, nor in 1869 or 1870, when the Indian district of Mashpee was incorporated as a town...
...happen. Every year during Christmas vacation the hockey team takes a trip out West to play some of the toughest teams in the nation. And though everybody will tell you that the realcollege hockey is played in Denver, Madison. Ann Arbor and East Lansing, Harvard stakes a positive claim December-in and December-out that its ECAC team can skate and check with any college south of the Canadian border...
Convention delegates are virtually unanimous in their support for a studentwide referendum to approve the final constitution. They are also quick to claim the support of President Bok, Dean Epps--even though Rosovsky, in a reception at Dunster House last month, said, "It is absurd to assume that any organization could accurately reflect the views of Harvard's student body...
...issue in the 10-week trial is whether the Indians constitute a tribe that can legally press its claim in a federal court. A verdict in favor of the Wampanoags would allow them to follow through on a second suit that could give them title to the disputed land...