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Casino bid in Taunton spurs tribal turf fight

2 Wampanoag groups claim ties to Taunton

By Mark Arsenault

 |  Globe Staff  

  April 16, 2012

In choosing Taunton for a tribal casino, the Mashpee Wampanoag figured they had the ideal location: close to the population center of Boston, and yet still within southeastern Massachusetts, where the state’s new gambling law stacks the deck in favor of an Indian casino. But now another tribe, the Pocasset Wampanoag is accusing the Mashpee of elbowing into historically Pocasset lands. “To reservation shop in somebody else’s ancestral territory? That’s just ridiculous,’’ said Daryl Black Eagle Jamieson, Pocasset vice-chairman.

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