from a post at Cape Cod Today
Tribe spends $8 million to win recognition
One casino developer gave Wampanoags $15 million
The Mashpee Wampanoag tribe's long fight to push their petition for federal recognition through the Bureau of Indian Affairs cost $8 million, according to its tribal council chairman... The tribe began its fight for legal recognition 32 years ago, but relied on its own funds for more than 20 years...
Tribal council chairman Glenn Marshall said he hired genealogists and anthropologists to detail the tribe's history and a lawyer to fight the BIA when it waited a decade before picking up the tribe's application. He also hired a public relations consultant...
Among the tribe's investors was Herb Strather, a Detroit real estate and casino developer who has given the Mashpee Wampanoag $15 million since 1999. It's not known exactly how the money has been used, and that's one reason four Wampanoag have sued to make the tribe's financial records public...
Read the rest of this Telegram story here.
Cape Cod Today Editor's Note: According to Gambling News, Herb Strather sold his interest in a group seeking to build a Detroit casino becauser he could not meet Ohio's licensing standards. The article reports he had "checkered financial pasts in real estate dealings" and well as a connection to a local murder. Strather is quoted in a 2001 story in Detroit's Metro Times when he got a chuckle from the crowd when he said that he was glad the Michigan Gaming Control Board “kicked me out” of the casino business. “It was the best thing that ever happened to me,” he said.
Below are some other links to stories about him.
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