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Tribal leaders express mixed reactions to apology bill

 
By The Associated Press | Published: March 8, 2008    Comment on this article Leave a comment

TULSA, Okla. (AP) _ Oklahoma tribal leaders expressed mixed reactions to a bill being pushed by U.S. Rep. Dan Boren to issue an official apology from the U.S. government for past mistreatment of American Indian tribes.

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Muscogee (Creek) Nation Chief A.D. Ellis says the bill is long overdue and would have little practical effect.

"Our parents should have received the apology, my mother, our ancestors," he said. "I don't need it."

Boren, D-Okla., told attendees at the National Congress of American Indian's winter conference in Washington, D.C., this week that he took over the apology bill from Rep. Jo Ann Davis, a Virginia Republican who died last fall from breast cancer.

The bill seeks to publicly acknowledge and apologize for past federal policies like forced relocation. It makes no provisions for reparations to the more than 1 million Indians in the country.

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