In the United States, Thanksgiving Day is often portrayed as an event dating from the 1620s when English colonists held a feast to thank their Native American allies for helping them start new lives in America.
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Today about 65 per cent of reservation land in the United States is owned by non-Indians, according to the Indian Land Tenure Foundation. Many Native-owned lands are fragmented into disjointed parcels, further disrupting tribal communities.
According to the organisation, these communities are still losing land to unfair sales by the U.S. government. The practice is permitted via legislation that allows federal authorities to remove land from Native American ownership and transfer it to federal trusts. Authorities can determine how much of the land will remain under tribal control, and then auction off the remaining parcels.
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The U.S. government does not recognise Lakotah or its representatives, stating that its leaders were not democratically-elected and that members are still subject to U.S. law. Lakotah would be a federation of semi-autonomous tribal groups, and governance would be based on an interpretation of a pre-European indigenous political format.
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