The Quileute Tribe concluded a decades-long effort to gain additional land to move the tribal school, tribal council buildings and individual tribal members homes out of the tsunami zone with signing of legislation by President Obama that grants the tribe nearly 800 acres of Olympic National Park land. The Indian Country Today Media Network story chronicles the tribe’s effort.
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