Talk:Chief Moses

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[edit] WPOV language

"white point of view":

By act of Congress on July 4, 1884, the entire reservation was restored to the public domain. On May 1, 1886 it was formally reopened for white settlement.

This wording occurs also in the end of the previous section that's quoted from...."restored to the public domain" is maybe a US legalism but it sure sounds odd; from the native perspective, that is. Not sure how to change the wording - "converted to public domain"? - but to restore something to the public domain first it has to be in it; I guess the previous mining district (NB there was a separate Similkameen Mining District on the BC side of hte border; the equivalent to the Okanogan Mining District in Canada would be the Boundary Mining District.Skookum1 (talk) 14:21, 10 May 2008 (UTC)