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A Texas-based railway company must pay some $400 million to a Native American community after it transported crude oil through the group’s reservation without authorization, a US judge in Seattle ordered on Monday. Railway company BNSF has had permission from the indigenous Swinomish Indian Tribal Community to use tracks that run through the community’s territory in Washington state since 1991, the Seattle Times reported. However, the agreement stipulates that a maximum of 25 wagons are allowed to pass through per day and the community must be informed of the type of cargo. The Swinomish peopl…