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Sunday, December 5th,1999
Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees,
then names the streets after them.
~ Unknown
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California Gaming tribes earn community's support as their financial prominence grows
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/utarchives/cgi/idoc.cgi?514047+unix++www.uniontrib.com..80+Union-Tribune+Union-Tribune+Library+Library++(casino)
Not long ago I saw a local tribal activist moved to tears by a public display of
support for Indian casinos.
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Casino's revenues doled out to local governments
http://wire.nj.com/cgi-bin/nj_nview.pl?/home1/wire/AP/Stream-Parsed/FINANCIAL/g6024_AM_MI--CasinoRevenueShar
(MOUNT PLEASANT, Mich.) (AP) -- The Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe gave local
governments $3.9 million -- or 2 percent of gross slot machine revenues -- from the
Soaring Eagle Casino and Resort as mandated by a 1994 state compact that legitimized
native gaming.
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Code Talkers assail film script Complain of inaccuracies, focus on Anglos
http://www.azcentral.com/news/1205codetalk.shtml
(ALBUQUERQUE) The first major Hollywood movie to tell the story of the Navajo Code
Talkers is encountering opposition from some of the Code Talkers themselves.
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Before The Padres
http://www.laweekly.com/bestofla99/essays/essay212.php3
The Southland at the Turn of the Last Millennium (CALIFORNIA) A thousand years ago,
historians believe, the Gabrielino Indians were already well-entrenched in a feudal
network of villages and townships, from Laguna to Topanga to San Bernardino.
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Temecula's past goes beyond incorporation
http://www.inlandempireonline.com/news/news15.shtml
The city, whose name dates back hundreds of years, celebrates an anniversary this
month. (TEMECULA) This month, candles on a cake mark 10 years of being city. But
anyone who thinks area history began with incorporation should think again.
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California Tribes look to reburial for healing
http://www.fresnobee.com/searchSite/0,1906,119002,00.html
Sunday's ceremony involves reinterment of Native Americans' remains. (FRESNO) In
ceremonies that American Indians hope will help heal decades of injury and insult, the
skeletal remains of more than 150 people from Valley tribes will be removed Sunday
from storage at Fresno State and reburied on reservation land near Lemoore.
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Gov. Davis picks tribal leader for state panel Appointment might improve relations
with state's Native Americans
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/utarchives/cgi/idoc.cgi?514051+unix++www.uniontrib.com..80+Union-Tribune+Union-Tribune+Library+Library++(casino)
(SACRAMENTO) -- Gov. Gray Davis named a Southern California tribal leader to a
powerful state board yesterday in a rare appointment that underscores the emergence of
the state's American Indian population.
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Pequot annexation case goes to court in January
http://www.boston.com/dailynews/338/region/Pequot_annexation_case_goes_to:.shtml
(MASHANTUCKET, Conn.) (AP) The Mashantucket Pequot tribe's bid to annex 165 acres of
land in southeastern Connecticut will go before a federal appeals court next month.
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Tribe loses attempt to penalize coalition
http://www.spokane.net/news-story.asp?date=120499&ID=s715268&cat=section.Tribal_news
(IDAHO) No civil penalty will be imposed against a coalition of local governments as a
result of the Nez Perce Tribe's petition for public information.
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Interior to Reconsider Wis. Indian Casino T
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-12/02/224l-120299-idx.html
he Interior Department agreed yesterday to set aside its controversial 1995 denial of
a gambling casino license for three Wisconsin Indian tribes and to reconsider their
application under guidelines giving them a chance to remedy any shortcomings.
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Best in the West Best in the World
http://www.abqjournal.com/biz/3bout11-29-99.htm
Northwestern New Mexico, where the Navajo silversmiths live, is famous for its trophy
buckles (AZTEC) Rodeo season is over, but orders continue coming in for belt buckles
handmade by Navajo artisans at Frontier Trophy Buckles.
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A web-based version of today's and recent news are also available at
http://www.public.asu.edu/~wendel/fyi/
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Abbe, Mary. "Honoring Heritage," Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN), December
3, 1999, 21.
["The renaissance of Franklin Avenue continues this week with the debut of
a gallery in the Ancient Traders Market. Scheduled to open later this
month, the market is a $1.76 million restoration project of the American
Indian Business Development Corporation."]
http://www.startribune.com/
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Barrett, Steven. "FBI Conducts Extensive Search of Area Where Bodies Were
Found," The Associated Press State & Local Wire, December 3, 1999, Friday,
BC cycle.
["SIOUX FALLS, S.D.: The FBI and Oglala Lakota Nation authorities on
Thursday conducted an extensive search of the area on the Pine Ridge Indian
Reservation where the bodies of two American Indian men were found June 8 .
. . The latest search comes just days before the U.S. Commission on Civil
Rights opens an investigation in South Dakota on numerous Indian deaths in
the state in recent months. An advisory panel to the commission, an
independent fact-finding agency, plans to visit the state Monday and hold a
public hearing in Rapid City. It will hear testimony on the Pine Ridge
deaths, as well as deaths in Mobridge, Rapid City and Sisseton."]
http://www.ap.org/
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Bell, Stewart. "Siksika Investigation Began Internally: Health Canada Funds
at Core of Allegations," Calgary Herald, December 03, 1999, A12.
["An RCMP investigation into allegations of misuse of public funds
administered by an Alberta Indian band is focusing on a single suspect, a
tribal spokesman said Thursday, although police said it could eventually
involve more people. After initially refusing to comment about the police
inquiry, reported in the National Post, the Siksika Nation said Thursday
the band itself was not being investigated, and that the probe was
initiated by band officials after an employee of the band's health
department came forward with concerns."
http://www.calgaryherald.com/
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Biles, Jan. "Warrior Rhythm," Telegraph Herald (Dubuque, IA), December 3,
1999, B1.
["Cornel Pewewardy, an assistant professor of teaching and leadership at
the University of Kansas in Lawrence, had that image in mind when he
finished his latest recording with the Alliance West Singers and
Intertribal Veterans Singers. And that's why "The Warrior's Edge," an album
of powwow songs from the Southern Plains for Shortwave Records, is
dedicated to his father, Samuel "Doc" Pewewardy, a Comanche leader who was
captured during the Battle of the Bulge and held as a prisoner of war. One
song, "Comanche Prisoner-of-War Song," was written by Pewewardy and its
words translate to "The Comanche warrior, he's not afraid of anything."
"It's about the stamina it takes to withstand (being a prisoner of war) and
to come out and have a sterling career and be an official of the tribe.
"I'm showing there's a warrior amongst us who's a reflection of the warrior
of the past," Pewewardy said of his father, who's in his 70s and lives in
Oklahoma. "I see an arsenal in him, whether he's fighting for tribal or
human rights. He's a father and grandfather. He was our Little League coach
when I was growing up. He's a deacon in our church, a very spiritual man.
He encompasses the warrior of today, and he's a good role model for our
youths.""]
http://www.calgaryherald.com/
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Brandt, Steve. "Last-ditch Effort Made to Save Hwy. 55 Oaks; Indian
Leaders, State Officials Meet, But Plan to Chop Down Trees Remains," Star
Tribune (Minneapolis, MN), December 3, 1999, 2B.
["The Mendota Mdewakanton Indian group tried prayer and persuasion Thursday
in a last-ditch effort to save four trees in the path of Hwy. 55. Meeting
with Minnesota Transportation Commissioner Elwyn Tinklenberg and four
legislators, leaders of the group asked that the path of the road be
shifted. Meanwhile, other group members and supporters prayed at the trees
in a ceremony they said was for spiritual protection . . . The state plans
to fell the trees, where road opponents have been camped for almost a year,
by the end of the month. Law-enforcement officials are to meet Monday to
plan an escort for the task. About 800 law officers were mustered a year
ago to oust road opponents from state-owned houses in the road's path, but
a smaller force is expected this year. The Mendota say they believe the
trees were used for spiritual purposes in the 19th century. But tree
experts concluded that they are too young for that to be true, and a state
consultant said it found no evidence of such use."]
http://www.startribune.com/
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Harcourt, Mike. "Harcourt Recounts Record on Nisga'a Treaty," The Vancouver
Sun, December 03, 1999, A23.
["Barbara Yaffe's Nov. 23 column, ''The Nisga'a treaty: How democracy,
after failing, is denied'', misses the point. The point is that in 1990
then premier Bill Vander Zalm and Jack Weisgerber, then Socred minister of
aboriginal affairs, agreed to negotiate a treaty with the Nisga'a, the
provisions of ratification were explicit -- the Nisga'a would hold a vote,
and B.C.'s legislature and Canada's Parliament would ratify not by a
referendum but by a vote of the legislature and Parliament. Vander Zalm
agreed to this approach. As leader of the Opposition, I -- and my caucus --
agreed. Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and his government agreed. The
Nisga'a agreed. In the 1991 NDP election platform we explicitly said we
were going to negotiate modern treaties, including the Nisga'a one. Neither
I, the Socreds nor Liberals mentioned a referendum. Now I can forgive
Barbara Yaffe, who is a newcomer to B.C., but Vander Zalm and Gordon
Campbell I can't. They speak with forked tongue."]
http://www.vancouversun.com/
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"Judge Rejects Penalty Over Tribal Request to Alliance," The Associated
Press State & Local Wire, December 3, 1999, Friday, BC cycle.
["NEZPERCE, Idaho: No civil penalty will be imposed against a coalition of
local governments as a result of the Nez Perce Tribe's petition for public
information. Second District Judge George Reinhardt Thursday granted the
North Central Idaho Jurisdictional Alliance's motion to dismiss and stated
both sides would pay their own legal expenses. The tribe sought both a
civil penalty and legal costs. The Nez Perce had asked for the financial
records of the alliance, a group of 23 governmental entities that questions
the tribe's claims of legal authority over non-Indian residents and
property within the designated area of the Treaty of 1863."]
http://www.ap.org/
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Kafka, Joe. "Civil Rights Panel to Meet in Rapid City," The Associated
Press State & Local Wire, December 3, 1999, Friday, BC cycle.
["PIERRE, S.D: The state Advisory Committee to the U.S. Civil Rights
Commission will meet Monday at Rapid City to examine if suspicious or
unexplained Indian deaths in South Dakota are treated the same as white
deaths. Indians have long had a distrust of the criminal justice system in
South Dakota, and a series of Indian deaths this year has not helped ease
those feelings . . . Mary Frances Berry, who chairs the full Civil Rights
Commission and is scheduled to be at Monday's meeting, said a report would
be issued to the U.S. Justice Department within 90 days of the session . .
. The meeting was requested by Elsie Meeks, of Interior, a member of the
Oglala Sioux Tribe who serves on the Civil Rights Commission. There seems
to be a disparity in the way deaths of Indians and whites are investigated,
she has said."]
http://www.ap.org/
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"Lawmakers Ask BIA To Extend Deadline," Albuquerque Journal, December 3,
1999, B3.
["WASHINGTON -- Sen. Pete Domenici, R-N.M., and Rep. Heather Wilson,
R-N.M., have asked the Bureau of Indian Affairs to extend the Dec. 15
deadline it has set for employees of an Albuquerque office to decide if
they will move to Virginia. The BIA plans to move about 70 jobs from its
Division of Accounting Management from Albuquerque to Reston, Va., by Feb.
13."]
http://www.abqjournal.com/
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Mercer, Illana. "In-house Tax Haven Would Confound Ottawa: By Encouraging
First Nations to Make Banking Their New Economy and Turn Their Territories
into Tax Havens for Besieged Taxpayers, We Will Leave the Feds in
Disarray," Calgary Herald, December 03, 1999, A32.
["The answer to both questions of national unity and fiscal woes, I
suggest, may very well lie in tax havens -- on native land. The idea is
delicious; poetically just, if you will. It just requires that Canadians
challenge their notion of what it means to be Canadian. Let me explain. It
has been said that Canada is the quintessential postmodern state. Those who
appreciate what Gov. Gen. Adrienne Clarkson terms ''the experiment that is
Canada'' probably enjoy the deconstruction this potage creates. If you hate
tradition, history, religion, scholarship and duty; if you like moral
relativism and think John Raulston Saul (rather than Allen Bloom) is a
thinker, then Canada is your place. But if you have grown weary of the
destruction brought on by the politics of privilege and petulance, then my
little scheme, which essentially advocates you ditch all that for some
laissez-faire capitalism, should capture your imagination. At the very
least, it should make you smile . . . By encouraging First Nations, on the
brink of separating from Canada, to make banking their new economy and turn
their territories into tax havens for besieged taxpayers, we will leave in
disarray the federal Grits and the localized buffoonery of provinces such
as British Columbia. Gasping for air, they will be. And what could be
sweeter, pray tell? Where there once was resentment towards First Nations
for their mercenary pursuit of land, cash and special status, there shall
be goodwill."]
http://www.calgaryherald.com/
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"Researchers Excavating Ancient Ceremonial Site in East St. Louis," The
Associated Press State & Local Wire, December 3, 1999, Friday, AM cycle.
["EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill.: As East St. Louis developed, nearby Indian mounds
were leveled and used as landfill to lift the city above the Mississippi
River's floodwaters, apparently destroying opportunities to study remnants
of Indian civilization in the area. As it turned out, the fill operation
covered and preserved other treasures, as evidenced by the ceremonial site
University of Illinois archaeologists are excavating within yards of the
pavement at the confluence of Interstates 55, 70 and 64. "It is a kind of
reborn opportunity for archaeology," said Thomas Emerson, head of the UI
program. The site includes remains of structures built by Mississippian
Indians who lived in the area 700 to 1,000 years ago. Researchers have
found evidence of foundations, post rows and other structures and a central
plaza area that may have included a field for playing the Indian version of
lacrosse. "We're kind of in downtown prehistoric East St. Louis," Emerson
said. The construction types indicate the site was a major ceremonial
gathering spot, perhaps in conjunction with the famous Cahokia Mounds about
five miles south."
http://www.ap.org/
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"Rio Arriba County Opposes Tribe's Request for Trust Status," The
Associated Press State & Local Wire, December 3, 1999, Friday, AM cycle.
["CHAMA, N.M.: The Jicarilla Apache Tribe wants a lodge and more than
32,000 adjoining acres near here placed into federal trust. "Once it is
placed into trust, we no longer have to pay property tax," said Carson
Vicenti, a spokesman for the tribe. "The main issue is whether the local
interests outweigh the benefits that the tribe would receive (from trust
status)." Rio Arriba County stands to lose about $21,000 a year in property
taxes if the land is placed in trust. The county commission last week
appealed the Jicarilla's request to the U.S. Interior Department's Board of
Indian Appeals."]
http://www.ap.org/
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Shenitz, Bruce. "New York's Beginnings, Real and Imagined," The New York
Times, December 3, 1999, E35.
["Romulus and Remus, legend has it, founded Rome, Bugsy Siegel created Las
Vegas, and Peter Minuit bought Manhattan for the Dutch. Or did he? Any
schoolchild, particularly in New York, can tell you how the director of the
colony of New Netherland bought the island of Manhattan for $24 worth of
beads and trinkets from the Indians who lived there. But with no direct
documentation of what actually took place, historians have questioned just
about every aspect of the story, from Minuit's role to the value and
identity of the goods that changed hands. "$ 24: The Legendary Deal for
Manhattan," an exhibition now at the New-York Historical Society, takes a
look at the story, its historical basis and the meaning of the myth."]
http://www.nytimes.com/
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"Sho-Bans Says Racism Coalition Doesn't Represent Tribes in Team Issue,"
The Associated Press State & Local Wire, December 3, 1999, Friday, BC cycle.
["POCATELLO, Idaho: An Illinois group which has threatened to sue Idaho
schools for having mascots with Indian connotations does not represent the
Shoshone-Bannock Tribes in any manner, Fort Hall Business Council Chairman
Duane Thompson says. The Coalition on Racism in Sports and the Media is
threatening to sue Salmon High School, which has the Savages team name and
Pocatello High School with its Indians name for violation of church and
state. Thompson said Thursday the business council met recently with
surrounding educators and student body officers to discuss the issue. The
council is the Shoshone-Bannocks' governing body. It believes that
promoting understanding of tribal cultures and values is important for
communication and education within Idaho and in schools surrounding the
reservation, he said."]
http://www.ap.org/
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"Three Affiliated Tribes Members Plan Burial for Abandoned Baby," The
Associated Press State & Local Wire, December 3, 1999, Friday, AM cycle.
["NEW TOWN, N.D.: A baby boy found dead in a suitcase last month was given
a name, a funeral service and a burial that drew by about 250 people from
the Three Affiliated Tribes and surrounding communities. Glenda Embry, a
spokeswoman for Tribal Chairman Tex Hall, said the name "Baby Moses" was
chosen. Funeral services were held at the Four Bears Community Center west
of New Town. "The people of the whole area have welcomed this child and
taken him into their hearts to help him. This is a child of everyone,"
Embry said . . . "I just felt someone has to do what they can for the
baby," said Black Medicine, a member of Tribal Chairman Tex Hall's staff,
who helped arrange Friday's services. Bill Hale Jr., of New Town, who found
the suitcase, and his wife, Crystal, adopted the child in the Indian
traditional way, as a member of Hale's clan. The tribe clanships are part
of tribal members' identities."]
http://www.ap.org/
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"Tribe Gets $1.6 million Grant for Particleboard Plant," The Associated
Press State & Local Wire, December 3, 1999, Friday, AM cycle.
["PLUMMER, Idaho: More than three months after a joint venture including
the Coeur d'Alene Tribe opened its $5 million particleboard plant, tribal
officials have received a $1.6 million federal grant to help boost the
operation. The Coeur d'Alene on Thursday received the Economic Development
Administration grant from the U.S. Department of Commerce to buy and
restore the fire-damaged Rayonier sawmill. Pacific Northwest Fiber began
producing particleboard at the mill Aug. 19 as a joint venture between the
tribe, Seeds Inc. of Tekoa, Wash., and Prairie Forest Products of
Hutchinson, Kan. Commerce Secretary William Daley said the grant is aimed
at maximizing the tribe's ability to create jobs for local unemployed
workers."]
http://www.ap.org/
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"Tribe Seeks to Double Wastewater Plant Capacity," Wisconsin State Journal,
December 3, 1999, 10C.
["The Ho-Chunk Nation is seeking state Department of Natural Resources
approval to expand its wastewater treatment plant and drainfield. The
capacity of the plant in the town of Delton in Sauk County would be doubled
to treat 300,000 gallons of material per day. The increase is designed to
accommodate the tribe's casino expansion and future construction projects.
The plant and drainfield will cost about $ 720,000."]
http://www.madison.com/wsj/
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"Unions Target First Nations Employers," CBC Newsworld Online, 3 December 1999.
["REGINA - In a ruling with national implications, the Saskatchewan Labour
Board has approved a union at a First Nations casino in Prince Albert, Sask.
Canadian Auto Workers will represent 300 dealers, security guards, and
office staff at the Northern Lights Casino. . . First Nations beg to differ
with organized labour. "We don't want to be dictated to by a union or
anybody else," said Perry Bellegarde, chief of the Federation of
Saskatchewan Indian Nations. Bellegarde says First Nations plan to write
their own labour code."]
http://cbc.ca/cgi-bin/templates/view.cgi?/news/1999/12/03/casino_sk991203
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