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Shakopee tribe gets land trust go-ahead; The Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux tribe, owner of the Mystic Lake Casino Hotel, won the hard-fought, long-awaited freedom to develop its lands as it wants.

Publication: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
Publication Date: 11-JUL-06 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Shakopee tribe gets land trust go-ahead; The Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux tribe, owner of the Mystic Lake Casino Hotel, won the hard-fought, long-awaited freedom to develop its lands as it wants.(NEWS)

Article Excerpt
Byline: Anthony Lonetree; Staff Writer

A decade-long quest by the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community to put hundreds of acres of land into tax-exempt trust has been realized, raising the likelihood of development near the tribe's Mystic Lake Casino Hotel.

Over the objections of Scott County, the city of Shakopee and Gov. Tim Pawlenty, the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) issued a letter Friday granting the tribe's request to move 752 acres of its land off of the property-tax rolls and into trust.

The decision, announced by the tribe in a Monday interview with the Star Tribune, took city and county officials by surprise. Recipients of the letter, according to the BIA, have 30 days from the day they receive it to file an appeal, but as of Monday afternoon, county officials said the only copy they had received was one provided by the newspaper. Local officials said it was too early...

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