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On the recordDecember 6, 2016
The Tribes often also feel like they can't do that, and if BIA hesitates, that city, that county and that neighborhood has no real solution to something that is becoming a magnet for crime.
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James Lankford
Republican · Oklahoma

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Lankford highlights the difficulties Tribes face in managing abandoned properties.

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