Flush with cash, tribe restores burial ground

Wed, 13 May 2020 07:35:13 GMT

In a stark reversal of fortune, the federally recognized tribe of nearly 2,000 is giving this once-prosperous city in eastern Connecticut $1 million for economic development and another $1 million to the Masons who operated a popular lodge on the site from the 1920s until it was demolished. The Mohegans spent another $1 million to demolish the Masonic temple last fall.