Whether the Schaghticoke Tribal Nation can continue its fight to reclaim $610 million from the state of Connecticut for taking reservation lands is now in the hands of a Superior Court judge.
The state made sovereign immunity and a lack of standing due to a dispute between two factions within the Schaghticoke its cornerstone argument for dismissal. The nation is suing the state saying it’s owed damages for land taken from its northwestern Connecticut reservation beginning more than two centuries ago.
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