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Controversial US Government Plan To Buy Back Tribal Land

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The US government is trying to make amends for historical mismanagement of tribal land by buying back land for tribal governments. It plans to spend $1.9 billion for 10 million acres of land by 2022. Ross Reynolds talks to Gabriel Galanda, a Seattle lawyer and a member of the Round Valley Indian Tribes of Mendocino County, California, about the program and what it could mean for Native Americans.

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