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Article: Narragansetts Indians Look to Congress for Justice in Rhode Island Police Raid.
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- July 30, 2003
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By Jim Adams, Indian Country Today, Oneida, N.Y. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Jul. 30--CHARLESTOWN, R.I. - Narragansett Indians are turning to friends in Congress to remove the legislative handicaps highlighted in the violent Rhode Island state police raid on their newly opened smoke shop.
Chief Sachem Matthew Thomas told Indian Country Today that the tribe is seeking to overturn the Congressional 1997 "Midnight Rider" that deprived the Narragansett Indian Tribe of the right to use the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (IGRA), making it the only tribe in the country thus singled out.
He said that in the aftermath of the widely condemned ...