The Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes claim Republican Rep. Frank Lucas is blocking its effort to reclaim 10,000 acres of ancestral land near El Reno. The tribe argued Lucas’s request for $16.6 million in federal funding to renovate the USDA research center on the property is a tactic to prevent a long-sought land transfer.
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