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Indians." Transactions that violate the statute are "void ab initio, of no validity in law or equity." Taking the literal language of the statute and the
Supreme Court rule that statutes involving Indians must be liberally interpreted as the Indians would have understood them, Tureen and his colleagues identified tribes along the eastern seaboard who had lost land without federal approval subsequent to 1790 and filed claims with their consent on their behalf. Unlike claims brought under the Indian Claims Commission Act, a 1946 statute that provided monetary compensation for tribes whose lands had been lost legally but unfairly. Tureen and his colleagues sought actual return of land plus monetary damages for trespass.
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that could be used to bring new businesses and jobs to the reservations. During the 1980s Tribal Assets arranged the acquisition of Dragon Cement, New
England's only cement manufacturer and Maine's largest concrete supplier for the Passamaquoddy Tribe, Carolina Mirror, the largest independent mirror manufacturer in the United States, for the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, Simpson Electric, a leading manufacturer of electronic test equipment, for the Lac du Flambeau Band of Chippewa Indians, Brunswick Technology, a manufacturer of Kevlar helmets by the Devils Lake Sioux Tribe, and Phoenix Cement, one of two cement manufacturing plants in Arizona, by the Salt River Pima Maricopa Indian Community.
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operation. With help from Tureen & Margolin, the
Pequots' initial gaming facility was financed with a $ 5 million Bureau of Indian Affairs guaranteed loan (repaid within one year) and managed for two years by the Penobscot Nation. In 1990, Tureen and Margolin won a court decision holding that the Pequots could operate table and other games of chance that Connecticut authorized under its "Casino Night" statute but without being subject state limits. In 1992 the Pequots opened
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87:(1975), which established that the federal government has a trust responsibility to protect the land of all tribes, including those not previously recognized. Between 1972 and 1983 he helped obtain federal recognition for and the return of over 300,000 acres to five New England tribes. Tureen's work on behalf of the tiny
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Morongo Transmission, LLC, an investment partnership led by the Morongo Band of Mission Indians, that cleared the way for construction of a billion dollar transmission upgrade through the Morongo reservation and made it possible for California to meet
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Princeton, he majored in literature and poetry. His interest in Native American issues stems from a summer working at a BIA-run boarding school in South Dakota while an undergraduate. He considered dropping out of law school in his second semester but decided not to after hearing a speech
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In 2009 Tureen and
William Kriegel, founder and former CEO of Sithe Energy, a large independent power producer, formed K Road Desert Power, LLC with the objective of developing renewable energy projects on Indian reservations. Tureen originated a 2,000-acre solar project on the Moapa River Indian
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After leaving NARF in 1982, Tureen co-founded a law firm, Tureen and
Margolin and a boutique investment bank, Tribal Assets Management. Tribal Assets helped tribes acquire existing businesses, primarily off reservation, as means of generating investment capital and developing business connections
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In 1986 Tureen & Margolin won a federal court decision holding that the
Mashantucket Pequot Tribe, the smallest of Tureen's land claim clients in terms of membership and size of claim, could operate a commercial bingo game without being subject to Connecticut's limits on pot size or hours of
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All of the settlements in which Mr. Tureen was involved provided for federal recognition of the tribes involved and the appropriation of federal funds for the purchase of the land from willing sellers for return to the tribes. Following the decision in
Passamaquoddy v. Morton the United States
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The claims in which Tureen was involved ranged in size from 2,000 acres to 12.5 million acres and in some instances were highly disruptive. In 1976, for example, the Maine municipal bond market collapsed after lawyers at Ropes and Gray, a respected Boston law-firm, refused to certify that
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Reservation in Nevada, the first utility scale solar project in Indian Country. K Road obtained a 250 MW, 25-year power purchase agreement from the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power for the project, permitted the project, and ultimately sold it to First Solar, Inc.
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municipalities could enforce nonpayment of property taxes by foreclosing on property subject to a Nonintercourse Act claim. Titles in the Town of Mashpee were frozen during the pendency of the Mashpee claims because insurers were unwilling to guarantee good title.
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by Edgar S. Cahn, head of the Citizens' Advocate Center, for whom he then worked full-time during the remainder of his time in law school. Tureen was responsible for the field research for Cahn's expose of the BIA, Our Brother's Keeper: The Indian in White America.
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Tureen is also currently a director of Nacero Inc. a Houston based company he co-founded in 2015, that is developing facilities that will make sustainable aviation fuel from renewable natural gas.
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In 2003 Tureen led an unsuccessful statewide referendum effort in Maine aimed at obtaining gaming rights for the Passamaquoddy Tribe and the Penobscot Nation. In 2004 he moved to San Francisco.
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titled "State Power and the Passamaquoddy Tribe: A Gross National Hypocrisy," which laid out the legal theories on which the Nonintercourse Act claims would be based. In 1972 he joined the
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Department of the Interior adopted procedures by which any group of individuals who factually constitute an Indian tribe can obtain federal recognition.
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