“These rights of way were coming due and we had a tenuous relationship with the power company at the time because they just didn’t appreciate what a tribe was and they were going to come and power their way through,” said Robert Martin, who retired as chairman of the tribe at the end of June. “So over a period of several years, we put together a team that we negotiated with the state.”

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