Taliman, Valerie
Indian Country Today (Lakota Times)
07-24-2002
SOUTH FORK, Nev. - Chief Raymond Yowell of the Western Shoshone National
Council is asking the Senate to look into numerous irregularities
surrounding the controversial May 24 confiscation and sale of more than 160
cattle by the Bureau of Land Management that cost him and fellow rancher
Myron Tybo more than $100,000.

In a pre-dawn round-up on Memorial Day weekend, BLM agents seized stock
bearing the TeMoak Shoshone Livestock Association brand and trucked them
across Northern Nevada where they were held near Reno and sold on an
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