Talk:Burns Paiute Tribe

Land ownership
This article seems to conflate two types of ownership under the rubric of "reservation":


 * Lands owned individually by enrolled members of the Burns Paiute tribe, but not a part of the reservation. Those lands were 160 acre allotments, given out essentially as homestead tracts in the early 1900s. That comprises about 11,000 acres.
 * Lands purchased by tribal members with a loan from the National Industrial Recovery Act in 1935. These properties formed the basis for the Burns Paiute Colony after federal recognition of the tribe in 1972. That comprises about 770 acres.

It does not mention that in 1969 enrolled members of the Burns Paiute Tribe received between 28 and 45 cents an acre for the approximately 1.5 million acres of the original reservation grant from 1872 (2285 square miles). That settlement was based on land values of 1890. Those lands would have included the meadowlands along the Silvies River in the Harney Basin, coveted by the European settlers for cattle ranching, which desire led to petitions to exclude lands from the reservation, as well as timberland in the Blue Mountains. The proceeding ran up large legal fees which were disbursed from the settlement before the proceeds went to the 850 tribal members, some whom got as little as $741. Hard cheese, I guess.

I rely on the Tribal Briefing Book of the Columbia Basin Tribes (http://www.nwcouncil.org:81/library/2000/2000-11.pdf, p. 5ff) and the account of Burns Paiute tribal lands on the website of the Burns Paiute Tribe (http://www.burnspaiute-nsn.gov/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=62:the-fight-to-regain-the-land&catid=37:history&Itemid=57). Of course, both sources could be biased. MaxwellPerkins (talk) 22:01, 7 January 2016 (UTC)

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