I have a response to Randy Henry's Feb. 5 letter to the editor:
I am confused. I feel the need to ask him a few questions to help clarify this issue of the sale of Klamath tribal lands.
If a tribal delegation goes to Washington, D.C., and lobbies Congress to pass a law allowing for the sale of tribal lands and end the government supervision over the tribes, this denotes Congressional trickery?
When 1,659 out of 2,133 members (78 percent) of the tribe vote to sell, how are we to know they really did not want to sell?
During this time in history, were all the lawyers for the tribe dead or incapacitated?
If I have this straight, when Henry puts a car up for sale, he really does not want to sell it, and if I were to give him the appraised value for it (or the price he wants for it) and he accepts, he just got cheated?
Steve Rapalyea
Chiloquin
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