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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

Most as in number or size?  Navajo have somewhere around 15 million acres, 
Wind River has over a couple of million acres.  Both of those take up more 
than one county in their state.

As to agents shooting Indians and getting away wtih it, that wasn't 
uncommon, particularly in California which had legal slavery until well into 
the 20th century.  Head Waters Forest was originally designated as a 
reservation but the agent made a deal with some folks who wanted the land 
and "cooked the books" and only wrote up the Hopa/Yurok reservation, so that 
also isn't all that uncommon.

Who and where did you have in mind?

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Don Bowen" <don.bowen AT earthlink.net>


> Here is a pop quiz.  Can you name the county with the most reservations or
> even the state it is in?
>
> In that county sometime around 1900 a local land commissioner shot and
> killed an Indian on the main street.  He was not charged because the only
> witnesses were Indians and they could not testify in Court.  This same 
> land
> commissioner altered survey records by changing a township number by one
> moving a reservation slightly north into very poor lands.  He told no one
> and when the records were accepted by the government the Indians could not
> sue but had to move from an area of decent farm land to an area of hills
> and rocks.
>
>
>
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