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Fri, 09 May 2008 19:30:21 GMT Fri, 09 May 2008 19:30:21 GMT Indian Country News http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://info.sjndnlaw.com/rss/_images/_firmLogos/rss_shield.png http://info.sjndnlaw.com/ 144 58 http://info.sjndnlaw.com/rss/feeds/pechanga.xml http://www.indiancountry.com/content.cfm?id=1096417253 <p>(WASHINGTON, DC) -- The federal government's recent actions involving its authority to make decisions on acquiring land in trust for tribal gaming purposes may inadvertently threaten the authority and duty of the secretary of the Interior Department to take land into trust for Indian tribes.</p><p>From: <a target="_blank" href="http://www.pechanga.net">PECHANGA.net</a></p> http://www.indiancountry.com/content.cfm?id=1096417253 Fri, 09 May 2008 19:12:22 GMT PECHANGA.net http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/northcounty/20080508-1957-bn08rincon.html <p>(CALIFORNIA) -- A San Diego federal judge's order last week could lead to &#8220;an uncontrolled, if not chaotic&#8221; expansion of slot machines, lawyers for Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said as part of an appeal filed Thursday.</p><p>From: <a target="_blank" href="http://www.pechanga.net">PECHANGA.net</a></p> http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/northcounty/20080508-1957-bn08rincon.html Fri, 09 May 2008 19:12:22 GMT PECHANGA.net http://www.wausaudailyherald.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080509/WDH0101/305090033/1981 <p>(WISCONSIN) -- Voting members of the Oneida Tribe of Indians on Saturday will consider another set of one-time payouts from their casino profits ranging from $5,000 to $20,000 per capita.</p><p>From: <a target="_blank" href="http://www.pechanga.net">PECHANGA.net</a></p> http://www.wausaudailyherald.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080509/WDH0101/305090033/1981 Fri, 09 May 2008 19:12:22 GMT PECHANGA.net http://www.sacbee.com/101/story/922065.html <p>(CALIFORNIA) -- It would be the Sears Tower of South Placer County: A 24-story casino hotel, towering above pastures and suburban homes, beckoning visitors for miles in every direction. Thunder Valley Casino's expansion plans are, in the words of an architect, "jaw-dropping."...</p><p>From: <a target="_blank" href="http://www.pechanga.net">PECHANGA.net</a></p> http://www.sacbee.com/101/story/922065.html Fri, 09 May 2008 19:12:22 GMT PECHANGA.net http://www.fresnobeehive.com/opinion/2008/05/feinstein_supports_florez_effo.html <p>(CALIFORNIA) -- U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who opposes building Indian casinos on non-reservation land, has written a letter to State Sen. Dean Florez saying she supports his bill to block state tribal compacts before tribes get federal recognition of the land intended for a casino.</p><p>From: <a target="_blank" href="http://www.pechanga.net">PECHANGA.net</a></p> http://www.fresnobeehive.com/opinion/2008/05/feinstein_supports_florez_effo.html Fri, 09 May 2008 19:12:22 GMT PECHANGA.net http://www.buffalonews.com/nationalworld/state/story/340712.html <p>(NEW YORK) -- Sen. Charles E. Schumer, D-N. Y., urged the Interior Department to hold off ruling on the Oneida Indian Nation&#8217;s application to place its land in trust to avoid state and local taxes and regulation.</p><p>From: <a target="_blank" href="http://www.pechanga.net">PECHANGA.net</a></p> http://www.buffalonews.com/nationalworld/state/story/340712.html Fri, 09 May 2008 19:12:22 GMT PECHANGA.net http://www.columbian.com/news/localNews/2008/05/05092008_Casino-decision-in-California-could-set-a-precedent-for-Cowlitz.cfm <p>(WASHINGTON) -- Who says a tribe needs a formal agreement with the local county to win casino approval? The Bureau of Indian Affairs this week filed its decision to take 631 acres outside Chico, Calif., into trust on behalf of the Mechoopda Indian Tribe.</p><p>From: <a target="_blank" href="http://www.pechanga.net">PECHANGA.net</a></p> http://www.columbian.com/news/localNews/2008/05/05092008_Casino-decision-in-California-could-set-a-precedent-for-Cowlitz.cfm Fri, 09 May 2008 19:12:22 GMT PECHANGA.net http://www.theday.com/re.aspx?re=fa849f2d-f1d5-46c5-84af-401b877336d7 <p>(CONNECTICUT) -- The Mohegan Sun Gaming Authority experienced a double-digit drop in earnings during the first three months of 2008.</p><p>From: <a target="_blank" href="http://www.pechanga.net">PECHANGA.net</a></p> http://www.theday.com/re.aspx?re=fa849f2d-f1d5-46c5-84af-401b877336d7 Fri, 09 May 2008 19:12:22 GMT PECHANGA.net http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080509/BUSINESS06/805090420/1019/Business06 <p>(MICHIGAN) -- A smoking ban approved by the Michigan Senate that includes casinos could keep gamblers away in Detroit, and gives an unfair advantage to casinos operated by tribes, casinos officials and observers said.</p><p>From: <a target="_blank" href="http://www.pechanga.net">PECHANGA.net</a></p> http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080509/BUSINESS06/805090420/1019/Business06 Fri, 09 May 2008 19:12:22 GMT PECHANGA.net http://www.wlox.com/Global/story.asp?S=8292284&amp;nav=6DJI <p>(MISSISSIPPI) -- Governor Haley Barbour wants state lawmakers to consider "closing the window" on future casino development. But only in counties where gambling is not allowed.</p><p>From: <a target="_blank" href="http://www.pechanga.net">PECHANGA.net</a></p> http://www.wlox.com/Global/story.asp?S=8292284&nav=6DJI Fri, 09 May 2008 19:12:22 GMT PECHANGA.net http://newsok.com/millions-at-stake-in-casino-fight/article/3241095/?tm=1210309356 <p>(OKLAHOMA) -- At the center of the acrimonious relationship is a half-acre in west Lawton, where the Fort Sill Apaches built a casino on land originally belonging to the Comanches.</p><p>From: <a target="_blank" href="http://www.pechanga.net">PECHANGA.net</a></p> http://newsok.com/millions-at-stake-in-casino-fight/article/3241095/?tm=1210309356 Fri, 09 May 2008 19:12:22 GMT PECHANGA.net http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2008/05/08/20080508sr-sovereignty0509-ON.html <p>(ARIZONA) -- The Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation marches Friday to honor something many people take for granted: their freedom. Friday marks the 15th annual Sovereignty Day celebration, honoring a famous standoff between the tribe and FBI over Arizona's first gaming machines.</p><p>From: <a target="_blank" href="http://www.pechanga.net">PECHANGA.net</a></p> http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2008/05/08/20080508sr-sovereignty0509-ON.html Fri, 09 May 2008 19:12:22 GMT PECHANGA.net http://www.oneida-nation.net/pressroom/detail.cfm?key=32&amp;id=3682 <p>(NEW YORK) -- Indian Country Today is launching a new annual magazine focusing on various issues related to Indian gaming. The magazine, set to launch in November at the Global Gaming Exposition in Las Vegas, will take a comprehensive look at Indian gaming, said Randi Rourke, editorial services director for Indian Country Today.</p><p>From: <a target="_blank" href="http://www.pechanga.net">PECHANGA.net</a></p> http://www.oneida-nation.net/pressroom/detail.cfm?key=32&id=3682 Fri, 09 May 2008 19:12:22 GMT PECHANGA.net http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/obama-weighs-in-against-cbc-legislation-on-cherokees-2008-05-09.html <p>(WASHINGTON) -- Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.), the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination, has weighed in against legislation proposed by the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) that would punish the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma.</p><p>From: <a target="_blank" href="http://www.pechanga.net">PECHANGA.net</a></p> http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/obama-weighs-in-against-cbc-legislation-on-cherokees-2008-05-09.html Fri, 09 May 2008 19:12:22 GMT PECHANGA.net http://www.spokesmanreview.com/local/story.asp?ID=244016 <p>(WASHINGTON) -- The Nisqually Indian Tribe is unlikely to win its claim that Gov. Chris Gregoire struck an illegal deal to allow cigarette sales at Frank's Landing, a small Indian community outside the tribe's reservation, a judge said Thursday.</p><p>From: <a target="_blank" href="http://www.pechanga.net">PECHANGA.net</a></p> http://www.spokesmanreview.com/local/story.asp?ID=244016 Fri, 09 May 2008 19:12:22 GMT PECHANGA.net http://www.missoulian.com/articles/2008/05/08/jodirave/rave69.txt <p>(COLORADO) -- The CEO and president of the Native American Bank, the only multi-tribe-owned national bank in the country, has been placed on administrative leave.</p><p>From: <a target="_blank" href="http://www.pechanga.net">PECHANGA.net</a></p> http://www.missoulian.com/articles/2008/05/08/jodirave/rave69.txt Fri, 09 May 2008 19:12:22 GMT PECHANGA.net http://www.thevillagenews.com/story.php?story_id=30068 <p>(CALIFORNIA) -- A court challenge filed by an Anza-based Indian tribe has reignited one of Southern California&#8217;s longest-running water-rights disputes, an action that could tighten supplies in a vast area that takes in Camp Pendleton, Fallbrook, Murrieta, Lake Elsinore, Temecula, and its satellite horse and wine country communities.</p><p>From: <a target="_blank" href="http://www.pechanga.net">PECHANGA.net</a></p> http://www.thevillagenews.com/story.php?story_id=30068 Fri, 09 May 2008 19:12:22 GMT PECHANGA.net http://www.indiancountry.com/content.cfm?id=1096417274 <p>(SOUTH DAKOTA) -- On May 1, the BIA sent a letter to Charles Mix County, asserting its ownership of BIA Route 29 on the Yankton Sioux Reservation, according to Nedra Darling, a bureau spokesman in Washington, D.C.</p><p>From: <a target="_blank" href="http://www.pechanga.net">PECHANGA.net</a></p> http://www.indiancountry.com/content.cfm?id=1096417274 Fri, 09 May 2008 19:12:22 GMT PECHANGA.net http://www.journalstar.com/articles/2008/05/08/news/local/doc482234a521061507756405.txt <p>(NEBRASKA) -- A play is in the works. A book will be published next spring. And a documentary is being filmed. Nearly 100 years after Ponca Chief Standing Bear&#8217;s death, his story continues to inspire others.</p><p>From: <a target="_blank" href="http://www.pechanga.net">PECHANGA.net</a></p> http://www.journalstar.com/articles/2008/05/08/news/local/doc482234a521061507756405.txt Fri, 09 May 2008 19:12:22 GMT PECHANGA.net http://heraldnet.com/article/20080509/NEWS01/218785035 <p>(WASHINGTON) -- The Tulalip Tribes plan to begin collecting child support on behalf of tribal children next year. When they do, even parents who are not Tulalip tribal members should expect to pay up, said Catherine Bryan of the National Tribal Justice Resource Center, a Colorado-based tribal law advocacy center.</p><p>From: <a target="_blank" href="http://www.pechanga.net">PECHANGA.net</a></p> http://heraldnet.com/article/20080509/NEWS01/218785035 Fri, 09 May 2008 19:12:22 GMT PECHANGA.net http://www.pe.com/localnews/rivcounty/stories/PE_News_Local_D_soboba09.3fdbb38.html <p>(CALIFORNIA) -- An early-morning gun battle with sheriff's deputies left a member of a prominent Soboba tribal family dead Thursday, prompting authorities to seal off the rustic reservation all day and frustrating the tribal chairman.</p><p>From: <a target="_blank" href="http://www.pechanga.net">PECHANGA.net</a></p> http://www.pe.com/localnews/rivcounty/stories/PE_News_Local_D_soboba09.3fdbb38.html Fri, 09 May 2008 19:12:22 GMT PECHANGA.net http://abcnews.go.com/Travel/BusinessTravel/story?id=4801536&amp;page=1 <p>(USA) -- Carlos Bueno and his wife, Mayra, drove three times last year from their home in Houston to a casino in Lake Charles, La., but they won't be making the two-hour drive this summer.</p><p>From: <a target="_blank" href="http://www.pechanga.net">PECHANGA.net</a></p> http://abcnews.go.com/Travel/BusinessTravel/story?id=4801536&page=1 Fri, 09 May 2008 19:12:22 GMT PECHANGA.net http://www.lvrj.com/news/18761884.html <p>(NEVADA) -- The state teachers union is in talks with gaming companies about a possible agreement to call off an initiative petition that would raise gaming taxes.</p><p>From: <a target="_blank" href="http://www.pechanga.net">PECHANGA.net</a></p> http://www.lvrj.com/news/18761884.html Fri, 09 May 2008 19:12:22 GMT PECHANGA.net http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2008/may/09/union-pushed-trop-fell/ <p>(LAS VEGAS) -- The owners of the Tropicana might have filed for bankruptcy protection regardless of labor union tactics. But the Culinary Union and its parent certainly saw where the Tropicana, a long-standing nemesis, was vulnerable.</p><p>From: <a target="_blank" href="http://www.pechanga.net">PECHANGA.net</a></p> http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2008/may/09/union-pushed-trop-fell/ Fri, 09 May 2008 19:12:22 GMT PECHANGA.net http://www.lvrj.com/business/18758744.html <p>(LAS VEGAS) -- Las Vegas-based Pinnacle Entertainment bucked a gaming industry trend, reporting first-quarter increases in revenues and earnings on Wednesday because of its newly opened casino in St. Louis and an expansion at the company's flagship resort in western Louisiana.</p><p>From: <a target="_blank" href="http://www.pechanga.net">PECHANGA.net</a></p> http://www.lvrj.com/business/18758744.html Fri, 09 May 2008 19:12:22 GMT PECHANGA.net http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=187550 <p>(ATLANTIC CITY) -- One or more of the three Trump casinos could be sold if the right deal presents itself, the company said Thursday. Mark Juliano, chief executive officer of Trump Entertainment Resorts, said the gambling company is "looking at strategic alternatives" and would sell if a good deal materializes.</p><p>From: <a target="_blank" href="http://www.pechanga.net">PECHANGA.net</a></p> http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=187550 Fri, 09 May 2008 19:12:22 GMT PECHANGA.net http://www.sunherald.com/201/story/545367.html <p>(MISSISSIPPI) -- Beyond the dazzle of the new slot machines and the aroma of grilling shrimp at the Southern Gaming Summit on Wednesday was the question of the economy and how it might affect casinos in Mississippi and across the country.</p><p>From: <a target="_blank" href="http://www.pechanga.net">PECHANGA.net</a></p> http://www.sunherald.com/201/story/545367.html Fri, 09 May 2008 19:12:22 GMT PECHANGA.net http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/s_566600.html <p>(PENNSYLVANIA) -- The Meadows Racetrack & Casino, once projected to fall far short of its own revenue estimates, is paying out hundreds of millions of dollars more than competing casinos in West Virginia.</p><p>From: <a target="_blank" href="http://www.pechanga.net">PECHANGA.net</a></p> http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/s_566600.html Fri, 09 May 2008 19:12:22 GMT PECHANGA.net http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080509/BIZ01/805090362 <p>(NIDIANA) -- Casinos in Southeast Indiana saw another month of declining revenues as a slowing economy has begun dogging the nation's gambling industry for the first time.</p><p>From: <a target="_blank" href="http://www.pechanga.net">PECHANGA.net</a></p> http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080509/BIZ01/805090362 Fri, 09 May 2008 19:12:22 GMT PECHANGA.net http://kansascity.bizjournals.com/kansascity/stories/2008/05/12/story4.html?b=1210564800%5E1633043 <p>(MISSOURI) -- Missouri casino operators are waiting to see whether their latest bid to ditch the state's loss limits has a prayer. A group financed by casino operators on May 2 handed the Missouri secretary of state more than 160,000 voter signatures supporting its initiative ­-- nearly twice the roughly 92,000 signatures needed.</p><p>From: <a target="_blank" href="http://www.pechanga.net">PECHANGA.net</a></p> http://kansascity.bizjournals.com/kansascity/stories/2008/05/12/story4.html?b=1210564800%5E1633043 Fri, 09 May 2008 19:12:22 GMT PECHANGA.net http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/thebigblog/archives/138373.asp <p>(WASHINGTON) -- Michael McManus has known for years what he'd do if he ever won the lottery. So when he scratched the $1 million Washington State Lottery ticket at the Mercer Mini Mart, he knew he wouldn't buy a house, quit his job or even take a vacation.</p><p>From: <a target="_blank" href="http://www.pechanga.net">PECHANGA.net</a></p> http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/thebigblog/archives/138373.asp Fri, 09 May 2008 19:12:22 GMT PECHANGA.net