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Jon Tester: “It would be very difficult for a Seminole to determine whether the Little Shell existed since 1900.”

On the recordNovember 3, 2009
It would be very difficult for a Seminole to determine whether the Little Shell existed since 1900.
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Jon Tester
Democratic · Montana

Editor's note · Context

Tester highlights the challenges of verifying tribal history from an outside perspective.

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