Cow Creeks - A Tale of Strong Recovery

The panel puts the treaty price at under three cents an acre. The tribe's own figure is 2.3 cents, for land the government was soon selling to settlers at $1.25. The reservation the treaty promised never came, and in 1954 Congress terminated a tribe it had never served. The Cow Creeks pressed a land claim from 1980 and settled for $1.5 million. They put all of it in an endowment and spend only the interest. Congress restored federal recognition by unanimous consent on December 29, 1982.

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