| Tribe urges charges against commissioner's spouse |
| Posted: July 25, 2008 |
| Coeur d'Alene tribal police have asked federal authorities to charge the wife of a northern Idaho county commissioner with felony assault on a police officer. |
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| Problems plague Yakama Nation Land Enterprise |
| Posted: July 25, 2008 |
| Problems persist at Yakama Nation Land Enterprise, which oversees the tribe's RV park and several of its agricultural businesses. |
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| Feds Rule In Favor Of Carter Lake Casino |
| Posted: July 25, 2008 |
| Thursday, the federal government dismissed Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning's lawsuit filed on behalf of the state that wanted to prohibit the Ponca Tribe from building a casino in Carter Lake, Iowa. In the ruling, the Justice Department said Nebrask |
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| Tribal pacts' legality backed |
| Posted: July 25, 2008 |
| Gov. Chris Gregoire negotiated controversial tribal gambling compacts in full compliance with state and federal law, state Attorney General Rob McKenna told tribal leaders at a recent conference sponsored by the Washington Indian Gaming Association. |
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| Sask. First Nations to manage casinos for Taiwan aboriginals |
| Posted: July 25, 2008 |
| Saskatchewan's First Nations hit the jackpot during a recent trade trip to Taiwan, inking a casino deal expected to earn them up to $600 million a year for 25 years. |
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| Deals Are Made In A Case Involving An Unrecognized Indian Tribe |
| Posted: July 25, 2008 |
| With trial just days away, many defendants in the federal case involving a Kansas group that claims to be an American Indian tribe are making deals with prosecutors. |
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| Nelson scolds management of Indian Health Service |
| Posted: July 25, 2008 |
| U.S. Sen. Ben Nelson says he's concerned about Indian Health Service's questionable management and what he sees as disservice to the Omaha Tribe of Nebraska. |
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| Police experts testify in trial of smoke shop suit |
| Posted: July 25, 2008 |
| A former Connecticut police officer has testified that a Rhode Island state trooper used excessive force when he broke the ankle of a Narragansett Indian tribe member during a raid on a tribal smoke shop five years ago. |
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| Plans for Catawba Indian replica village back on track |
| Posted: July 24, 2008 |
| If things go the way Ronnie Beck hopes, visitors to the Catawba Cultural Center will experience American Indian village life exactly as it once was. |
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| Educators look to boost minority graduation |
| Posted: July 24, 2008 |
| American Indian and other minority students sometimes drop out of school partly because they don't feel connected enough to their cultures from an early age, an expert on identifying dropout behaviors told educators Wednesday. |
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| REGION: Casinos' expansions may be ebbing |
| Posted: July 24, 2008 |
| An era of spectacular growth may be waning for area casinos as a rocky economy convinces more gamblers to stand pat. A maxim that the gambling industry is "recession-proof" now is being questioned following the announcement this week that the Pechanga Res |
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| Solutions sought for crime on reservations |
| Posted: July 24, 2008 |
| A bipartisan group of senators, including Democrats Max Baucus and Jon Tester of Montana, introduced legislation Wednesday that seeks to strengthen public safety on the nation's 400 Indian reservations. |
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| Dancers provide insight into American Indian life |
| Posted: July 24, 2008 |
| On a hot, breezy summer afternoon, when the late afternoon rains were amassing in the western skies, the sound of the drums began to beat, and the dancers in their outfits _ bright, feathered and fringed _ began to file out onto the grassy circle. |
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| Tribe renews pact with sheriff |
| Posted: July 24, 2008 |
| They are just words on a stack of paper. The growing trust, respect and shift in perception of the goings-on at American Indian reservations weren't evident in the ink. |
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| Worth a dam? Tribe and enviros 'call back the salmon' on Yuba River |
| Posted: July 24, 2008 |
| On July 2, the California Department of Fish and Game officially closed salmon fishing on Central Valley rivers for the first time in history. |
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| Jack Lenor Larsen Speaks At Native American Design Benefit |
| Posted: July 24, 2008 |
| Internationally acclaimed textile designer and authority on craft Jack Lenor Larsen will speak at a fall benefit lunch at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian in New York. The benefit, A Single Thread: Celebrating Native American Desig |
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| LV Sands scraps Kansas plan |
| Posted: July 24, 2008 |
| Las Vegas Sands Corp. on Wednesday scuttled plans for a $500 million casino complex near Kansas City, Kan., blaming the worsening credit markets and the potential that neighboring Missouri might soften its in-state gambling restrictions. |
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| New Mescalero housing development goes 'green' |
| Posted: July 23, 2008 |
| Mescalero Apache Tribal Council member Silas Cochise called it "a special day for all of us." The Mescalero Apache Tribe and the Mescalero Apache Housing Authority, amid a steady but intermittent rain, broke ground Friday on the I-Sahﾴ-Dinﾴ-Dii Housing De |
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| Tribal canoe journey passes through the San Juans |
| Posted: July 23, 2008 |
| Lummi, Nooksack, Samish, Suquamish, Swinomish and Tulalip canoes arrive in the San Juans en route to Duncan, B.C. this week. Traditionally, when canoes entered a Tribe's or Nation's territory, paddle tips were pointed upward to signify a peaceful entry, ' |
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| Deputy ''chief,'' ''police officer'' of bogus Indian set for plea |
| Posted: July 23, 2008 |
| A man who has been described in court hearings as a deputy ''chief'' and a man who told people he was a ''police officer'' of the reservation for a non-existent American Indian tribe have decided to plead guilty. |
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| Tribe seeking Point Molate casino resort scores new financing |
| Posted: July 23, 2008 |
| After losing Harrah's as its financial backer last year, an American Indian tribe that hopes to build a casino resort complex at the former Point Molate Naval Base has found a new partner the tribe that runs the popular Cache Creek casino resort in Yolo |
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| Land ownership delays tribe's grant |
| Posted: July 23, 2008 |
| Somerset County Commissioners delayed support of a grant application by the Accohannock Indian Tribe Inc. on Tuesday after questions were raised about ownership of land the tribe uses in Marion Station. |
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| Blackfeet police say alcohol ban proved to be effective |
| Posted: July 23, 2008 |
| A four-day ban on alcohol sales on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation helped temporarily curb traffic deaths and violence, according to tribal police chief. |
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| No foul play suspected in death of UC Santa Barbara student in San Diego County |
| Posted: July 23, 2008 |
| A 21-year-old UC Santa Barbara student dies while spending her summer vacation in San Diego. |
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| Deal aims to keep casinos out of Marin |
| Posted: July 23, 2008 |
| County supervisors unanimously approved an agreement with the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria on Tuesday that they believe will prevent the tribe from building a casino in Marin County |
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| High court invalidates Crist-Seminole gambling compact |
| Posted: July 23, 2008 |
| The Florida Supreme Court unanimously overturned an agreement between Gov. Charlie Crist and the Seminole Indian Tribe allowing expanded gambling at its casinos, siding with House Speaker Marco Rubio in the July 3 ruling. |
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| ND Rough Rider Award to be given to Keeble |
| Posted: July 23, 2008 |
| The late Woodrow Wilson Keeble, who was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for heroism during the Korean War, will be given the Theodore Roosevelt Rough Rider Award, the state's highest honor. |
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| Hatchery program replenishing stocks |
| Posted: July 23, 2008 |
| A feast of grilled salmon is an exceptional way to end a day spent kayaking on the Spokane River. For the Spokane Tribe of Indians, it's also a link to history. |
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| County continues to criticize Cowlitz casino study |
| Posted: July 22, 2008 |
| A final study on the proposed Cowlitz casino fails to evaluate the project's effects and provides ''unreliable and inadequate'' information to federal decision-makers. |
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| Natives help green the Democratic National Convention |
| Posted: July 22, 2008 |
| Planners of the Democratic National Convention are limiting the party's carbon footprint through a unique partnership with an Indian-focused environmental business. |
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| Tribe fights to be heard on water issue |
| Posted: July 22, 2008 |
| An Oklahoma Indian tribe claims tribal governments are being excluded from the state's effort to develop a 50-year water plan. |
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| Vote is today on Accohannock's grant request |
| Posted: July 22, 2008 |
| Somerset County Commissioners are expected to vote today on a grant application by the Accohannock Indian Tribe for a welcome center and other structures at Bending Water Park in Marion Station. |
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| Scaled-down powwow is a success |
| Posted: July 22, 2008 |
| Men and women from different cultures adorned in dazzling colors, sparkling costumes, feathers, shawls, bells and jingling cones moved to heavy drum beats at the "Honoring Cultures Powwow" held Saturday and Sunday at E.C. Best Elementary School.
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| Opening arguments in trial over RI smoke shop raid |
| Posted: July 22, 2008 |
| Opening arguments soon begin in a lawsuit brought by a member of the Narragansett Indian Tribe who says state police used excessive force during a raid on a tribal smoke shop. |
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| Internet shutdown on Navajo Nation averted for now |
| Posted: July 22, 2008 |
| The shutdown of Internet services on the Navajo Nation has been temporarily averted, a tribal official has confirmed. SES Americom, a company that provides bandwidth for the services, had |
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| Parched reservation gets OK to dam stream |
| Posted: July 22, 2008 |
| For decades, the loach minnow has vexed the White Mountain Apache tribe. The threatened fish has prevented the Indians from damming a wild stream to provide water for tribal residents. |
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| Sauk River will run its course again |
| Posted: July 22, 2008 |
| When the rain comes, Patti Sleasman, 66, stands in the scrubby grass expanse in front of her mobile home and stares down Bryson Road, a rural gravel lane that ends at the bank of the Sauk River. |
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| Survey seeks American Indians |
| Posted: July 22, 2008 |
| American Indians in the Charleston area are asked to come forward in what is believed to be the first effort of its kind in South Carolina history. |
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| District, tribe team up for new school |
| Posted: July 22, 2008 |
| To provide a more intense cultural learning experience for its younger members, the Ho-Chunk Nation is teaming with a local school district in a new educational venture. |
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| Huffman warns about casino deal |
| Posted: July 22, 2008 |
| A deal that Marin County supervisors have negotiated with the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria regarding casino development in Marin and Sonoma is misguided, Assemblyman Jared Huffman, D-San Rafael, said. |
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| Tribal board's funding restored |
| Posted: July 22, 2008 |
| The governor has restored funding previously cut from the Maine Indian-Tribal State Commission, but whether the action will persuade tribes to participate in the commission is up in the air. |
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| CIT Provides Financing to Snoqualmie Tribe Casino |
| Posted: July 21, 2008 |
| CIT Group Inc. (NYSE: CIT), a leading global commercial finance company, today announced that it has provided a senior secured credit facility to the Snoqualmie Entertainment Authority to complete its development of the Snoqualmie Tribal Casino in Seattle |
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| Tribe, developer battle over rock mounds |
| Posted: July 21, 2008 |
| As a boy, John Brown remembers traveling with his family to the wooded hills in northwest Rhode Island where his fellow Narragansett Indians gathered near stone piles they believe were left by ancient ancestors. |
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| Retrial to start in lawsuit over smoke shop raid |
| Posted: July 21, 2008 |
| A retrial is scheduled to begin this week in a lawsuit brought by a member of the Narragansett Indian tribe over what he says was excessive police force used during a raid to close a tribal smoke shop in 2003. |
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| New Cowlitz Tribal chairman stresses history |
| Posted: July 21, 2008 |
| Bill Iyall has only to look to his family's past to guide him in his new role as leader of the Cowlitz Indian Tribe. |
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| Tribal fishing video spawns bigotry, attack on news site |
| Posted: July 21, 2008 |
| Somebody tried to kill the Messenger last week. It didn't work. The Mille Lacs Messenger is a weekly newspaper published in Isle, Minn., on the southeast shore of Lake Mille Lacs, a fertile area that seems to spawn conflict, especially if you are one of t |
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| Poncas think outside the box on casino |
| Posted: July 21, 2008 |
| The Ponca Tribe of Nebraska is making grand plans for a proposed casino and hotel in Carter Lake, but it must clear formidable legal and financial hurdles before it can open a fourth casino in Omaha's backyard.
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| Decision to affect Cherokee County casino |
| Posted: July 21, 2008 |
| The decision for a contract for a state-owned casino in Sumner County has taken on additional importance for residents of Cherokee County who are hoping a casino in that county will result in economic benefits. |
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| Casinos' Disputed Games Play On |
| Posted: July 21, 2008 |
| The games go on at Seminole casinos as lawyers, lawmakers and tribal officials deliberate the arcane world of gaming law and Indian sovereignty in the wake of a court ruling that voided an agreement between the state and the tribe. |
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| Alcohol abuse among conditions treated at Ho-Chunk facility |
| Posted: July 21, 2008 |
| Pam Reimer sees the toll alcohol abuse can take on a family. As community health nurse at the Ho-Chunk Nekoosa Health Office, 4946 Winneshiek Lane, Reimer works with other staff members to provide a variety of medical and support services to American Indi |
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| BIA sets limits on casino locations |
| Posted: July 21, 2008 |
| The U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs has published a rule that says casinos should be located within 25 miles of a reservation headquarters. |
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| Keepers of the Circle host powwow |
| Posted: July 21, 2008 |
| D. Salvatore Timberwolf Lamia of Bayport dances for those who have gone before him. ''It fills me with the spirit of my ancestors and the respect for my ancestors,'' said Lamia, who is a member of the Shinnecock Indian Nation and Paukatuck Eastern Pequot |
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| It's a Muckleshoot tribal library - but anyone can use it |
| Posted: July 21, 2008 |
| The carved American Indian canoe paddle on the wall above the service desk at the new Muckleshoot Library signifies more than art. So does the metal relief of an Indian canoe being paddled on a journey, on display in the library's community meeting room. |
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| Elementary students participate in Dine summer language camp |
| Posted: July 18, 2008 |
| Elementary school children in Bloomfield are breaking away from their TVs this summer to learn about the history and culture of the Navajo people in a class conducted entirely in the Navajo language. |
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| Big-name golfers coming to Turning Stone |
| Posted: July 18, 2008 |
| The Notah Begay III Foundation Challenge is drawing some star power to Turning Stone Resort in August. |
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| Brule rocks the park |
| Posted: July 18, 2008 |
| Expect a new wave of music when Brule and AIRO hit the stage at the 31st annual Festival in the Park in Spearfish. On July 18-20, the groundbreaking family of contemporary Native American music will showcase its talent along with that of its youngest band |
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| Fort Sill Apaches subpoenaed over N.M. poker tournament |
| Posted: July 18, 2008 |
| Federal regulators have subpoenaed the Oklahoma-based Fort Sill Apache Tribe, seeking details of a poker tournament the tribe held at its New Mexico casino which has not been approved for gambling. |
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| Crist, Seminoles ask court to rehear gambling case |
| Posted: July 18, 2008 |
| Gov. Charlie Crist and the Seminole Tribe asked the Florida Supreme Court on Thursday to reconsider its order this month striking down the deal to allow blackjack and baccarat table games in tribal casinos. |
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| YPT Housing Authority to receive 'check' for housing preservation grant funding |
| Posted: July 18, 2008 |
| Officials from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development will be on hand here next week to make a "big check presentation" for a $50,000 home preservation grant to the Yerington Paiute Tribe's Housing Authority |
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| 'Kiskiack' was an Indian tribe |
| Posted: July 18, 2008 |
| The name Kiskiack applied to the territory inhabited by the Kiskiack Indians. The word means "broad or flat land," Clyde F. Trudell writes in "Colonial Yorktown."
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| Judge orders review of Chumash annexation plan |
| Posted: July 18, 2008 |
| A federal judge's ruling in the case of two community groups against the U.S. Department of the Interior regarding the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians' 6.9 acre fee-to-trust application has resulted in two highly divergent reactions to the news. |
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| Maine AG clears officers in deadly shooting |
| Posted: July 18, 2008 |
| Attorney General Steve Rowe has ruled that two Indian Township law officers were legally justified when they fatally shot a Calais man on the Passamaquoddy Tribe reservation in eastern Maine. |
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| Secretary pleads guilty in Kaweah Indian tribe case |
| Posted: July 18, 2008 |
| Eduviges del Carmen Zamora was a legal resident when she started selling memberships in a so-called Indian tribe to illegal immigrants in Wichita. Zamora pleaded guilty Thursday to failing to report mail fraud to employees. |
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| BIA says Seneca-Cayuga court order not valid |
| Posted: July 18, 2008 |
| The Bureau of Indian Affairs does not recognize as valid a temporary retraining order issued by a Seneca-Cayuga tribal court order that nearly caused what some tribal officials called a hostile takeover by the tribe's disputed chief. |
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| Tribes meet with state officials |
| Posted: July 18, 2008 |
| Government agencies and members of Wisconsin's 11 American Indian tribes met this week to try to improve their relationship. The conference -- held Wednesday and Thursday in Stevens Point -- was the first of its kind here and was beneficial, presenter Eli |
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