Associated Press
August 10, 2011
The federal government broke its word over a land deal with an Indian tribe from Idaho and Nevada, stymieing economic development plans that could include a bingo hall or casino _ and resurrecting native groups' enduring mistrust for the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
Last October, a federal administrative law judge approved transfer of a 26-acre parcel just east of Boise along U.S. Interstate 84 to the Shoshone-Paiute Tribes, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press on Tuesday.
The tribes are headquartered on the isolated Duck Valley Indian Reservation but hope to develop an off-reservation-but-Indian owned property with possible gaming, agriculture or light manufacturing to boost its economy.
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