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when it came to sovereignty issues we collided time and again. No one
person has caused a stronger unification of tribes across America than
Slade Gorton.”^24
Joe DeLaCruz missed the big showdown he’d been itching for since
- He died of a heart attack at 62 in the spring of 2000 while waiting
for a flight to an Indian health care meeting in Oklahoma. By then,
though, thousands of those “Dump Slade 2000” buttons were being
distributed.^25