http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/national/southwest RSS Feed for ICT - National - Southwest en-us Thu, 18 Mar 2010 04:00:00 GMT http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/national/southwest/87793992.html LINCOLN, Calif. – With the hotel and casino expansion on track to open in July 2010, Thunder Valley Casino and Resort is now taking applications for more than 600 new jobs. Applicants can go online and click on Careers to apply. http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/national/southwest/87462112.html SAN CARLOS, Ariz. – Land swap legislation that would pave the way for a controversial copper mining operation on land that is sacred to the Apaches is inching forward in the Senate. http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/national/southwest/87465362.html Emergildo Criollo traveled to California recently from his indigenous village in Ecuador to the home of Chevron’s new CEO John Watson and then to a meeting with state lawmakers, demanding that the oil giant Chevron “… take responsibility for their actions and clean up our rivers and forests – our homes.” http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/national/southwest/87127527.html SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. – On March 3, San Manuel Band of Indians Chairman James Ramos presented a donation of $242,000 to the Stop the Violence Increase the Peace Foundation. The grant will focus on San Bernardino middle and high school students in an effort to prevent gang involvement and reverse the growing rates of high school drop-outs. http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/national/southwest/87116802.html GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) – A plan by a southern Arizona Indian tribe to build a casino and resort in the Phoenix area has divided tribes, split cities and is now sparking a debate at the Legislature about tribal sovereignty. http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/national/southwest/86628792.html SACRAMENTO, Calif. – “Today, California’s Chinook salmon runs are threatened with extinction, and the numbers of fish returning to spawn have dropped to record lows,” State Assemblyman Jared Huffman said, introducing legislation to restore the state’s salmon population to sustainable levels. http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/national/southwest/85949767.html Can a once prosperous pueblo tribe of western Texas rebuild after its primary source of income was closed in 2002? That’s exactly what is happening with the Ysleta Del Sur Pueblo, also known as the Tigua Indians, after the state shut down its casino in 2002. http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/national/southwest/85949527.html INDIO, Calif. – I scream, you scream, just about everyone screams for premium ice cream. “Lique” (pronounced “Lick”) is the newest addition to the lineup of six eateries inside Fantasy Springs Resort Casino. It features a menu filled with 16 ice cream flavors – many that rotate depending on the season, specialty sundaes, milkshakes, burgers and hot dogs, and low-fat frozen yogurt on the lighter side. http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/national/southwest/85844652.html SAN DIEGO – Viejas Outlet Center recently announced the opening of Chico’s – one of the nation’s leading upscale women’s clothing and accessory retailers. http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/national/southwest/85512822.html ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Big Brothers Big Sisters of America is in the midst of an accelerated, nationwide effort to reach out to vulnerable youth in American Indian and Alaska Native communities.