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“We are looking at the potential of an armed raid or a forcible raid after February 22nd [2017], when the Army Corps said that they would declare us trespassers on our own land, the same as the United States Army said they would declare us hostile if we didn't return to the reservations in 1875.”

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Chase Iron Eyes

Chase Iron Eyes is an attorney, with the specific birth and death dates unknown. more

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