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Article: INDIANS' TACTICS DIFFER IN BID TO REGAIN CONTROL
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- April 17, 1989
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Second of three articles.
SWANTON, Vt. - Homer St. Francis, chief of the St. Francis
Sokoki band of Abenakis, is waging war by ticket.
He believes his tribe should retain sovereignty in the land
that once belonged to it. So, whenever local officials ticket him
for driving with only his tribal license, hunting or fishing with
just a tribal permit, parking illegally on what he considers tribal
land, or other violations of the authority he does not recognize,
"I give 'em one back," he said.
State and local officials have issued more than 300 tickets to
St. Francis and other members of his tribe, and they have
counterticketed their ticketers for trespassing, not paying rent,
failing ...