{"id":22803,"date":"2018-11-01T09:57:17","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T17:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=22803"},"modified":"2018-11-01T09:57:17","modified_gmt":"2018-11-01T17:57:17","slug":"quote-of-the-day-973","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-973\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThis is a tremendous blow to our tribe, without whom America\u2019s earliest settlers would not have survived.\u00a0It should also alarm tribal nations all across Indian Country.\u00a0I do not believe that our country \u2014 this great nation that our tribal citizens have fought and died for \u2014 wants to return to the dark days of taking sovereign Indian land away from indigenous communities.\u00a0If neither Congress nor the federal courts weigh in to stop this, the Trump administration will return the <strong>Mashpee Wampanoag<\/strong> once again to landlessness, force us to close our schools and social service programs and lead us back to despair and hopelessness.\u201d &#8212; <em>Mashpee Chairman <strong>Cedric Cromwell<\/strong>\u00a0on an Interior Department ruling that his tribe <a href=\"https:\/\/ggbmagazine.com\/article\/mashpee-mashup\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">does not meet the definition of &#8220;Indian,&#8221;<\/a> among other thing<\/em>s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThis is a tremendous blow to our tribe, without whom America\u2019s earliest settlers would not have survived.\u00a0It should also alarm tribal nations all across Indian Country.\u00a0I do not believe that our country \u2014 this great nation that our tribal citizens &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-973\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28,112,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22803"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22803"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22804,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22803\/revisions\/22804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}