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Lawrence D. Shubow '44, the chief counsel to the Indians, cites Gov. Michael S. Dukakis' 1976 executive order declaring the Wamponoag a tribe, and Richard McCann, HEW regional commissioner of the Office of Education in Boston, offers another example. He reports that the Wamponoags of Mashpee have not been rejected in their application for federal aid under part B of the Indian Education Act of 1972, which stipulates tribal status as a prerequisite for accepting applications, and that the Wamponoags have already received aid under part A of the act, which offers an entitlement program based on the number...
Lawrence D. Shubow '44 attorney for the Indians, said yesterday the decision was "logically absurd--how can you say there is a tribe in 1834 and not in 1869?" He added he believes the decision to be so contradictory that the judge may have to order a new trial...
...Shubow said he believed the outcome of the trial will have a "psychological, not a precedental effect" on other Indian lawsuits in Rhode Island and Martha's Vineyard, as well as on a separate attempt by the Mashpee Wamponoags to gain federal regulation of their tribal status by the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs...
...representing the town of Mashpee, said in his final argument Tuesday that the Indians only are the descendants of the "remnants of other tribes" who converted to Christianity, shed their tribal affiliations and settled in the Cape Cod seashore community, in the 1660's. Lawrence D. Shubow, attorney for the Indians, summed up his case Tuesday saying, "Don't deny these people their identity. They have been fighting for this identity for 350 years. Are you going to say 'You've been a living fraud...
Sears had also been scheduled to debate Rabbi Leo Shubow on March 11 on the question, "Is Senator Joseph McCarthy an Influence for Good or Evil." Shubow was asked to take the negative side. The debate, scheduled for a Columbus Forum, was called off by the Catholic Church...