A friend on Facebook posted this story of the Mashpee indians supposedly being picked on. Not true. Below is my response.

https://news.yahoo.com/mashpee-wampanoag-cape-cod-trump-casino-caronavirus-073953500.html?.tsrc=jtc_news_index

I’m a huge fan of our American Indians, have worked to help the Seminole Nation and a fan of ol’ Jim Billie (Though some recent actions by him have not made me happy). As an historian, I want to all done possible to see them, as is quoted, “preserve our land base, our culture and our spiritual connection to our homelands.”

But this story is pure garbage. I smell money changing hands to have that trash written. The story is a cry baby piece devoid of facts that have to be included.

I’ve followed off and on this part of the Mashpees and get more and more sick of their actions. I’m almost at a point that their designation of as a tribe should be pulled, too, as they clearly are more interested in becoming billionaires than that their heritage.

The ONLY reason they got the land 5 years ago, in 2015, was to build a casino because they (as are waaaay too many tribes, including the Seminoles) are tied up with Big money international casino interests. But the Billionaires are being bothered by the pesky, little city of Tuanton, Massachusetts, that doesn’t want a billion dollar casino in their back yard. So, the money guys are working to stifle them, but getting further Federal backing, which is now back firing, thankfully.

These Big money guys are constantly looking for angles to exploit our American Indians by dangling billion dollar beads in their faces and making billions for themselves. There have been many efforts to build more casinos than what we already have, here, in Florida.

A bunch of the water groups, I’m with, were fighting a billionaire who was scooping up land north of the Ocala National Forest. My friends were distracted by the water issues. I immediately saw what the corporation was up to. They were saying they were going to build residential on the 32,000 acres. But the real base of the company, I learned doing some research, is casino and racetrack gambling. They own Gulfstream, for instance.

Y’see, these guys had bought land up to the small Orange Springs reservation land. All they had to do, following what other gambling companies are doing, as is happening with the Mashpee, is to just establish a bit more reservation land and they could have a casino and racetrack there!

Turned out I was right. The company was secretly working the area to get gambling laws fixed their way. But there was a little birdie working against them and tipping off those approached. What killed it off was one of county commissioners in Marion County refused to support this land scheme. That’s when they backed off.

That story never made the press. The press loves casinos because they advertise – See attached above.

So this Mashpee story should really be written about Big money casino companies that want to crush a small town with a billion dollar casino land deal as they exploit the Mashpee Indians.

I could go on how even Billie has regrets of him letting the Big Casinos take over the tribe. Though it has aided building a museum and a bit more , the over all impact had been an extensive loss of
the efforts to”preserve our land base, our culture and our spiritual connection to our homelands.”