The Mashpee Wampanoag tribe has finally grown tired of watching how the US Interior Department their casino land case under the bus.

According to The Boston Globe, the Mashpee tribe has finally jumped in the legal fray over the 150-acre land dispute after US District Judge William G. Young declared in late July that the US Interior Department, which represents them, had misinterpreted a 1934 law governing what tribes are eligible for reservations.

Still reeling from their legal setback, the tribe asked court to allow them to represent themselves in the case since the US Interior Department “may not adequately represent the interest of the tribe.”

“The department’s interest is in the administration of federal lands of the United States for the public interest broadly and the implementation of federal Indian policy, not in the particular sovereign, economic, and personal interest of the tribe,” the tribe’s lawyers said in a 22-page petition, according to the news website.