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Indian Gaming: Latest News
1:12am 5-21-2012
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article California Gaming Regulator: Nevada Online Poker Industry 'Heavily Dependent on Prayer'
(Nevada) -- One of California’s top gaming regulators said Friday that the success of Nevada’s upcoming intrastate online poker industry is “heavily...
article Considerations for Indian Tribes Seeking to Conduct Intrastate Internet Gaming
(Washington D.C.) -- With federal internet gaming legislation apparently unlikely in the near future, many Indian tribal governments are considering the prospect of...
article U.S. Northeast: Casino Glut Coming
(USA) -- These are desperate times for US state and local governments. More than half a million state/local workers have been laid off and more will be soon as Federal...
article Broken Arrow Casino Opponents Rejoice At Court Ruling
(Oklahoma) -- A federal judge has ordered construction to stop on the controversial Red Clay Casino in Broken Arrow. The temporary injunction says the Kialegee Tribal...
article Commission ‘just asked’ questions
(Alabama) -- The controversy over the possible tax liability of the Poarch Band of Creek Indians has divided the county, but so far it remains just a fact-finding...
article Practice Continues for Daredevil Nik Wallenda
(New York) -- High wire performer Nik Wallenda will attempt to walk over Niagara Falls on June 15th. In the weeks leading up to the big event, a rigorous practice...
article Huffman splits top prize in Central Coast Poker Championship
(California) -- Santa Barbara’s John Pearley Huffman commanded the final table and generously opted to split the prize money with his three remaining competitors...
article Oklahoma Casinos Host Blood Drives Through Holiday Weekend
(Oklahoma) -- Whether it's a victim in an accident, a cancer patient or a premature baby, the need for blood in Oklahoma is significant, especially with the upcoming...
article Harrah's Ak-Chin celebrates National Kids to Parks Day
(Arizona) -- From Pennsylvania to California, 35 of Caesars Entertainment Corporation’s properties across the country – including the Arizona property,...
 
 
 
 
Native News: Latest News
1:51am 5-21-2012
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article Congresswoman Gwen Moore Speaks Out Against Watered Down VAWA as Rape Victim, Woman of Color
(Washington D.C.) -- Congresswoman Gwen Moore (D-Wisconsin) railed against the Republican-led House version of the watered down Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) as an...
article Is Elizabeth Warren Native American or What?
(USA) -- Elizabeth Warren is not a citizen of the Cherokee Nation. Elizabeth Warren is not enrolled in the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. And Elizabeth Warren is not...
article Man Indicted for Spending Navajo Corporate Funds on Personal Expenses
(New Mexico) -- A man who allegedly spent millions of Navajo Nation corporate funds for personal use was indicted in U.S. District Court in Albuquerque, New Mexico on...
article Probe continues of bomb threat at tribal council
(Wyoming) -- The May 12 incident forced postponement of the controversial meeting for one week. Authorities are continuing to investigate a bomb threat at the Eastern...
article Securing Indigenous Rights to Sacred Places With the UN Declaration
(Washington D.C.) -- The UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples presents a new opportunity and a new kind of legal authority that could help Native peoples...
article World Intellectual Property Organization Blasted for ‘Misappropriation’ of Indigenous Knowledge, Resources
(United Nations) -- Dozens of Indigenous Peoples showed up at a presentation by the World Intellectual Property Organization at the 11th Session of the United Nations...
article Harper Touts Commitment to African Food Security While Being Derided by U.N. for Domestic Shortcomings
(Canada) -- Canada is in the international hot seat yet again, this time over food security for aboriginals. A U.N. envoy has reviewed the nation’s food...
article Tribe reclaiming land lost after the Homestead Act
(Nebraska) -- John Kemp left a boarding school and picked up a plow. On a 160-acre plot south of Winnebago that the government gave him, he raised chickens and horses,...
article Protesters gather to thwart Green River nuclear plans
(Utah) -- More than 100 demonstrators gathered on the sun-baked desert just south of a proposed nuclear power plant here Saturday evening, protesting both the envisioned...
article Environmental groups, tribes join to protest nuclear power plant
(Utah) -- Environmental groups and Native American tribes gathered Saturday at the site of a proposed nuclear power plant to protest its location and plans to divert...
article Investment Conflict Occupies Muscogee (Creek) Nation and HUD
(Oklahoma) -- A tribal nation that wants to invest the interest on federal housing grants described its position to a three-judge panel of the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of...
article Indian Financial Action Program Featured at White House
(Washington D.C.) -- A Native American perspective was presented during the White House’s first-ever Summit on Financial Capability and Empowerment, held May 10 in...
article Shuttered resort tangled in lawsuits, hard feelings
(California) -- It has been four months since the iconic Warner Springs Ranch shut down. The gates to the resort are locked. The golf course parking lot is coned off....
article Tribal council called invalid
(North Carolina) -- A critic of the Lumbee Tribal Council this week alleged the body is “illegitimate” because it is not structured as specified in the...
article Blackfeet enrollment issue triggers debate in Great Falls
(Montana) -- Montana's News Station recently shared the story of a group of Blackfeet who are trying to change the tribe's enrollment requirements so that...
article Candidates seek tribal voice in Pierre
(South Dakota) -- The Democrats running for the single House seat in District 26A, which consists of Todd and Mellette counties, say they want to bring a stronger voice...
article In His Own Words: Book Showcases What Fuels the Activism of Hank Adams
(USA) -- No less a figure than the legendary Vine Deloria Jr. has dubbed Assiniboine-Sioux activist Hank Adams the “most important Native American in the country....
article Oklahoma Native American Population Grows in 2011
(Oklahoma) -- U.S. Census Bureau estimates show the Native American population in Oklahoma increased from 8.6 percent in 2010 to 8.9 percent in 2011, reported the...
article Career Criminal Fails to Impress Latest Appeals Court Round
(New Mexico) -- A New Mexico tribal member failed to convince the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals May 10 that an assault conviction would affect his future tribal...
article Youth-Produced Anti-Commercial Tobacco Videos Featured on YouTube
(Minnesota) -- In a mission to persuade Native American worksites in Minnesota’s Twin Cities to ban commercial cigarette smoking, the youth participants in a local...
article Aboriginals Applaud Federal Mental Health Strategy
(Canada) -- Aboriginals of all stripes are applauding a mental-health strategy released by the federal government. Changing Directions, Changing Lives was released on...
article The National Museum of the American Indian’s Best in the World: Native Athletes in the Olympics
(Washington D.C.) -- The National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) is celebrating the 100th anniversary of the 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm in which Native...
article Experts: Eclipse a good test of cultural relevance
(Arizona) -- When Robert Johnson was a boy on Black Mesa, you knew an eclipse was starting by the hush that fell over the land. People hurried to corral their livestock...
article Finding the First Americans
(USA) -- WHEN and how did the first people arrive in the Americas? For many decades, archaeologists have agreed on an explanation known as the Clovis model.
article Pomo Indians Remember 1850 Bloody Island Massacre With Events May 18-19
(California) -- The Robinson Rancheria Pomo Indians of Lake County, California, will hold an all-night intertribal dance and sunrise ceremony Friday night through...
article Native American skulls repatriated to California from England
(California) -- Nobody thought much about the locked metal cabinet in the medical school at the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom. It was another forgotten...
article Pioneering Amazon Tribe Calls On Brazilian Police To Help Enforce Logging Moratorium
(Brazil) -- The Paiter Surui have asked the National Indian Foundation (Fundação Nacional do Índio, “FUNAI”) and federal police to help them enforce a self-...
article Judge orders pre-sentence report in fisheries case
(British Columbia) -- Holding out his birth certificate, the one which assigned him an English name, James Wadhams approached the bench and asserted the charge he’...
 
 
 
 
Gaming: Latest News
1:48am 5-21-2012
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article Resident: Milford casino has no place in Holliston’s backyard
(Massachusetts) -- David Bastille is taking the day off work tomorrow to hold a big, red sign at the polls. He said the expected rain won’t keep him away.
article Keeping Kids Away from Gambling
(Nevada) -- As the Las Vegas Committee meets for the second time, they had important topics to talk about. The two main topics were the different ways security...
article Quinn seems to leave opening for gambling growth
(Illinois) -- A tense and often confrontational meeting over gambling expansion last week ended with Gov. Pat Quinn being evasive but not explicitly saying “no...
article Architect Hendrik Op’t Root on Toronto casino plans: If you build it, it better be grand
(Toronto) -- Local architect Hendrik Op’t Root pitched a waterfront casino design that came within a hair of being used by Casino Rama’s developers in the...
article Kelly McParland: Casino dream has visions of Las Vegas dancing in Toronto heads
(Toronto) -- According to the World Casino Directory, Ontario has more casinos “than any other state in Canada.” You can never have too much of a good thing...
article STUTZ: Next gaming frontier: Toronto?
(Toronto) -- Toronto and Singapore are separated by 12 hours and more than 9,300 miles. To the gaming industry, that's where the difference ends.
article Penn Gaming shows growth
(Ohio) -- Since going public in 1994, Penn National Gaming has grown from a single horse track a few miles outside of Harrisburg, Pa., to the third-largest gaming...
article One special session down, another to go?
(Maryland) -- State Sen. Jamie Raskin likens the prospect of being called back to Annapolis for another special session to the plight of a middle school student being...
article Indiana's casino industry at crossroads as revenues decline, out-of-state competition grows
(Indiana) -- Indiana's nearly 20-year-old casino industry is facing declining revenues and growing out-of-state competition, prompting lawmakers to consider what, if...
article Jimmy Buffett talks about his new Mississippi casino
(Mississippi) -- Jimmy Buffett the businessman is expanding his empire. The poster child for the laid-back lifestyle got his first paid performing job in Biloxi, Miss.,...
article Voters Could Choose to Legalize Gambling Soon
(Texas) -- Something that continues to be a hot topic in the gateway city could be brought to voters soon. We're talking about casinos in Texas.
article Georgia unlikely to follow Miss. with casino gambling
(Georgia) -- Several southern states appear poised to offer gaming expansion laws to their voters as a way of strengthening tax coffers weakened by the national economy.
article Casinos in Arkansas Are an Uncertain Bet
(Arkansas) -- Two companies are proposing amendments to Arkansas’s constitution in order to legalize full-service casinos in the state. Nancy Todd, a political...
article Sweepstakes business continues to operate
(New Hampshire) -- Despite a cease and desist order, 3D Business Center, whose owner is alleged to be running a sweepstakes gambling parlor on New Zealand Road, was...
article Sweepstakes cafes arrive in Richland
(South Carolina) -- The first rule posted on the window of an Internet sweepstakes cafe on Two Notch Road says, “You are not gambling!” But the state’s...
article Online Poker Petition Receives White House Reply
(Washington D.C.) -- Several weeks ago, a petition signed by US online poker players, entitled “We the People”, was sent to the White House to demand changes...
article Facebook at risk from US gaming laws as authorities up scrutiny of 'social' gambling' that uses virtual money
(UK) -- Facebook successfully made its stock market debut on Friday, but analysts warn that its crucial revenues could be at risk because of growing scrutiny by American...
article Chile Proposes Legal Reforms for Online Gambling
(Chile) -- The Latin American online gambling market is potentially very large but as in many parts of the globe the laws regarding gambling have not caught up with the...
article Big Hollywood Stars in Movie about Online Gambling in Costa Rica
(Costa Rica) -- Ben Affleck, Justin Timberlake and Anthony Mackie are some of the actors thus far confirmed in the production of “Runner, Runner“, a film...
article Spain's big gamble: could the king of Vegas casinos help fight a jobs crisis?
(Spain) -- It sounds almost too good to be true: at a time when one in four Spaniards are out of work, for the last few months US casino tycoon Sheldon Adelson has been...
article MP John Darley to propose legislation that will prevent gambling purchases via credit card
(Australia) -- INDEPENDENT State MP John Darley will draft legislation to prevent punters being able to buy gambling products on credit cards at newsagencies.
article Junket operators 'will have little impact on casino revenues'
(Singapore) -- The Casino Regulatory Authority of Singapore (CRA) may have approved two international marketing agent (IMA) licences to allow two junket operators to do...
article From Slots to Web Gambling [sub req'd]
(Wall Street) -- Yahoo Inc. board member Patti Hart, fresh from the controversy that led to Scott Thompson's ouster as Yahoo's chief executive, has plenty of...
 
 
 
 
Press Releases
10:00pm 5-9-2012
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San Diego County Acted Illegally in Attempting to Seize Non-Gaming Funds, Tribe Says
(California) -- The Iipay Nation of Santa Ysabel said today that San Diego County officials acted illegally in attempting seizure of the tribe’s governmental funds...
 
   

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