Residents of the wooded resort country round Big Moose, N. Y. (population about 150), awoke one morning last May to find they had some new neighbors. In the predawn hours, a band of Indians had taken over a 612-acre former girls' camp, now a forest preserve in New York's Adirondack State Park. They claimed the camp land and, thinking big, some 9 million additional acres in New York and Vermont, as Ganienkeh—the Land of the Flint, an independent Indian nation. Since then, to the frustration of state authorities and the growing anxiety...
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