Another AP story, not the one referenced by Phoenix Woman, says:
"Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.), acknowledges he got Congress in fall 2003 to press government regulators to decide, after decades of delay, whether the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe of Massachusetts deserved federal recognition."
Uh, last I checked, Massachusetts is not in North Dakota. It's not Sioux or other High Plains tribes.
What it is, though, is a New England tribe with gaming interests. In fact, the tribe was trying to get federal recognition to pursue a casino at the very time Dorgan got Abramoff money, as this Cape Cod Times story says.
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