Most well-educated Indians have moved off reservation land, leaving an ill-educated and poverty-stricken group that too easily abdicates control to the few remaining members who know how to pull the right levers.

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The accord also opens the door to negotiations with the state and counties over Mohawk land claims near their reservation along the Canadian border.

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In New York City that often means trying to land a coveted table reservation at one of the trendy, almost club-like upscale sports bars that have become increasingly popular.

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Other involvements include National Agriculture Statistics Service Advisory Committee, Extension Indian Reservation Program Advisory Committee, Indian Land Tenure Foundation Board Member, Chairman of the Agriculture Committee for the National Congress of American Indians and also serves on his local school board.

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My big reservation is we are no longer the land of opportunity for new entrants into the labor force.

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One area the ban does not cover is "median strips" - known as the central reservation in the UK - the sliver of land in the middle of a large road.

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As part of that experience, she assisted at a clinic on a nearby Native American reservation, where she learned about water fluoridation issues on tribal land and helped to provide dental care to an at risk population.

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"If there were no mines, we wouldn't have left our land, " says Jose Chingal, who fled his home in the Magui indigenous reservation.

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