Word: lande
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This is the story of the relationship between two boys born in 1900, and the story of the relationship between their families--one of which owns the land that the other tills. It is immense, overflowing with color and detail; unfortunately, it comes close to being indigestible...
...trial, which has dragged on for over 40 days, is the first step in the process of adjudicating the Indians' claim to 11,000 acres in Mashpee land appraised at $30 million. If the judge, Walter F. Skinner, decides on January 20 to dismiss the case, the Indians face a long series of appeals that will further exacerbate the tension between the whites and the Indians in Mashpee. The Indians' lawyers insist the jury's decision is so illogical that the judge will have no recourse but to order a new trial; the defense lawyers jubilantly term the decision...
...Wamponoags based their suit on the Indian Non-Intercourse Act of 1790, which prohibited the transfer of Indian lands without the consent of the federal government. When the Massachusetts legislature incorporated Mashpee as a town in 1870, the Indians claim it violated this law and so the land in Mashpee belongs to them...
George Benway, one of the selectmen of Mashpee, said last month the trial has caused the "economic strangulation of the town and the heightening of personal disagreements." He cited sharp drops in tax revenue and land values because the lawsuit has placed all land title in question...
Tureen, the attorney for the Gay Head Wamponoags, said he could not predict the effect of the Mashpee decision on the Martha's Vineyard case in which the Wamponoags of Gay Head are claiming 200 acres of land in Gay Head. He added the difference between the two cases is that "the people have a disposition to resolve the matter...