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Bill Keating: “Just as the Northwest Ordinance permitted new states to enter the Union on an 'equal footing' with existing states…”

On the recordApril 2, 2019
Just as the Northwest Ordinance permitted new states to enter the Union on an 'equal footing' with existing states, Congress extended the same principle to tribes.
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Bill Keating
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Keating draws parallels between statehood and tribal recognition.

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