U.S. to Pay Indian Tribe $10 Million for Land
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WASHINGTON — President Reagan on Tuesday signed into law a bill that allows the payment of nearly $10 million to Michigan’s Saginaw Chippewa Indians for lands ceded to the government without just compensation in the early 1800s.
Congress has stipulated that the monies be used to set up a tribal investment fund that will finance social and economic development programs administered from the Indians’ reservation in central Michigan’s Isabella County.
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