Melissa Harding Ferretti, Chairlady, President, Herring Pond Wampanoag Tribe, Plymouth David Weeden, Mashpee Wampanoag, Tribal Historic Preservation Officer Joe Falconeiri, Land Steward, Northeast Wilderness Trust Meg Sheehan, Attorney, Volunteer Kathy Pappalardo, Wareham Land Trust Warren Winders, Trout Unlimited, Southeastern Massachusetts Chapter, a founder of the Sea Run Brook Trout Coalition
BACKGROUND
In the 1990s, the Community Land & Water Coalition’s regional planning agencies launched “Vision 2020: A Partnership for Southeastern Massachusetts to address development in the region that “alarmed our citizens.” Today, inappropriately sited projects such as the NOTOS rezoning plan for East Wareham and land-based solar projects clearing pristine Pine Barren forests threaten our land and water.
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Redwood Falls Gazette
Lower Sioux Indian Community is making plans to finalize a land acquisition with historic significance. The land to be returned to the Community includes Minnesota Historical Society parcels at the site where the U.S. Dakota War of 1862 started that eventually led to the largest single day, mass execution in U.S. history.
The closing for the land transfer is scheduled on Feb. 12 at 11 a.m. at the Lower Sioux Recreation Center in Morton.
This transfer is of great historical significance. The United States established the Lower Sioux Agency site in 1853 in response to the Mendota Treaty of 1851, between the Mdewankanton and Wahpekute bands of Dakota. In 1862, after a decade of United States’ unfulfilled treaty obligations, the Dakota raised arms fighting for enforcement of the treaties. Many lost their lives on both sides.