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residents, and they expressed their opposition to the committee reviewing the bill. The
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introduced a bill (S704) to provide for termination of the named tribes. In addition to resistance within the tribes, non-Native
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According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the reservation and associated off-reservation trust land have a combined area of 2.35 square miles (6.1 km), of which 2.3 square miles (6.0 km) is land and 0.05 square miles (0.13 km) is water.
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was 52.1 inhabitants per square mile (20.1/km). There were 49 housing units at an average density of 21.3 per square mile (8.2/km). The racial makeup of the reservation and off-reservation trust land was 68.3%
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