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Emails aggravate Rhode Island gambling issues

CHARLESTOWN, Rhode Island -- As reported by the Providence Journal: "It started as an e-mail exchange between the Town Council president and a town resident.

"Some of those e-mails — released to the public last week — have further strained the town's already thorny relationship with the Narragansett Indian Tribe, and their author, council President Katharine H. Waterman, stands accused of bigotry and racism.

"...'It was very stupid, and I'm sorry for the people of Charlestown, and sorry for the council I serve on that I wrote the e-mail,' Waterman said.

"She was referring to a May 20 e-mail she sent to Joseph S. Dolock in which she expressed concern about the Narragansetts — whose reservation sits within Charlestown's boundaries — pursuing gaming on tribal land.

"In the e-mail, she urged Dolock — who is part Indian — to read Jeff Benedict's Without Reservation, which is about the Foxwoods casino, and spoke of privileges Indians enjoy and reparations 'paid today — by us — to folks who simply by accident of birth can claim Native American blood in some fraction.'..."

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