Helo Hancock, legislative director for the Coeur d’Alene Tribe, gives some background for the House Judiciary Committee on land ownership on Indian reservations, and how they ended up, on some reservations like the Coeur d’Alenes’, in a checkerboard pattern of Indian and non-Indian ownership. You can read Betsy Russell's live-blog coverage of today's meeting on the tribal police bill here and here.

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