The Department of Interior, that would be Larry Echo Hawk, the Secretary of the agency that has oversight of nearly 600 federally recognized tribes said the tribe ( Cedric Cromwell) was notified on January 19, 2012 that the land into trust application was “ incomplete, and no longer under consideration.”
Contrary to what Cedric Cromwell said in a statement, the LIT application, and the only one ever filed on behalf of the
Mashpee 
Wampanoag Tribe is gonezo. It is NOT “on hold.” It is dead because he never finished the paperwork and let it languish for 3 years. Confirmation that he never cared about us having a reservation…anywhere. The Department of Interior, that would be Larry Echo Hawk, said there are no applications for LIT for any land parcels connected to the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe. Nor can we amend and refile and pick up where we left off.
It’s like this, you step out of line, you’re out of luck. Go to the back of the line.
Remember, Cedric said he was going to amend Fall River, Bridgewater, ( some said even Samuel G Davis School and South Cape Beach ) and most recently, in a tribal letter, Taunton. The DOI said there’s nothing there for us. Nothing has been filed. That’s part of CeddieLou’s audacious, bodacious, and obscene lies. In a memo to the Council he said the DOI email was not correct…basically, the Echo Hawk’s spokesperson was misinformed….lying.
Filing a land into trust application is a very complicated process. It took years of extraordinary research and collaboration with experts and the BIA to do this. And despite the fact the Mark Tilden and Lou Catirina have billed the tribe for hundreds of thousands of dollars for work on LIT…they never did a damned thing.
Cedric has been consistent with 2 things. Lying and incompetence.
At least now he doesn’t have to worry about the governor forcing him to sign our sovereignty away…the issue was never, ever on the radar. They’re both off the hook. “Hoka Grungy Boy!”
