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Culinary votes to raise dues in event of strike (5/21/2013)
(Las Vegas) -- Culinary Workers Local 226 members voted overwhelmingly Monday to raise dues by $25 in the event of a strike this year against Strip and downtown resorts.
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Ontario Gaming
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OLG financial records raise red flag for Hamilton casino plan (5/21/2013)
(Ontario) -- Ontario's four premier resort-style casinos have lost a combined $360 million in the past six years while handing out $1.6 billion in freebies and cash...
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OLGC makes final payment (4/20/2013)
(Ontario) -- Windsor has received $385,000 from the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp as its last quarterly payment for the transition period following the end of the...
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Native Voices
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TRAHANT: Federal spending worsens as time passes (5/20/2013)
(Washington D.C.) -- Indian Country has already been hit hard by the sequester. Lacey Horn, treasurer of the Cherokee Nation, recently told National Public Radio that...
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TRAHANT: Congress quickly fixes the wrong problem (4/29/2013)
(Washington D.C.) -- Last week was a perfect illustration of the broken structure that is the United States government. Congress cannot pass a budget. It can barely pass...
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TRAHANT: Austerity & Termination are twin ideologies (4/22/2013)
(Washington D.C.) -- If you look at the failed history of termination -- the idea of ending the federal-treaty relationship with tribal governments -- there were two...
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TRAHANT: Modern budgets are more stories than spread sheets, but numbers still matter (4/10/2013)
(Washington D.C.) -- Modern budgets in the federal government are more stories than spread sheets. Consider the three competing budgets for 2014. The House budget is...
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Niagara Falls Casino
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Falls scales back street repaving, cites cash crunch (5/20/2013)
(New York) -- The city this year plans to repave only about one-third of the amount of roadway it did four years ago. The culprit, according to city leaders, is the...
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BLOG: Gaming Settlement Still a Long Shot at Best (5/14/2013)
(New York) -- Anyone who is betting on a gaming settlement before June 20 that will deliver $60 million in overdue slot revenue to the City of Niagara Falls is backing a...
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Beloit Casino
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City, tribe seek road grant (5/17/2013)
(Wisconsin) -- The Ho-Chunk Nation along with the City of Beloit are applying for a federal grant to help pay for street work involving the proposed casino project.
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Mascot Issue
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Oneida Indian Nation defrays cost of dropping Redskins mascot for good (5/17/2013)
(New York) -- Dan Snyder may be steadfast in his refusal to drop the Redskins name, but other programs at the high school level have been much more accommodating. The...
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Bill would make state civil rights department pay for schools forced to drop American Indian mascot (5/16/2013)
(Michigan) -- Two Republican lawmakers want to make the Michigan Department of Civil Rights pay if schools are forced to drop their American Indian mascots and nicknames.
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Oneidas pay for name change for Cooperstown mascot (5/13/2013)
(New York) -- The Oneida Indian Nation of New York not only supports the Cooperstown public schools' decision to change the mascot name for its teams, it is adding...
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Toronto Casino
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Toronto would get $53.7-million to host casino; Mayor says deal 'dead' unless it's $100-million (5/16/2013)
(Toronto) -- Plans to build a casino in downtown Toronto have lost all signs of life, with the province preparing to give the city about half the revenue it was...
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Tribal Taxation
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Bill would require state to reimburse Cayuga, other counties that don't receive property tax payments from Indian nations (5/15/2013)
(New York) -- Legislation sponsored by several central New York representatives would require the state to reimburse counties affected by the failure of Indian nations...
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County board denies tribe appeal (5/15/2013)
(Oklahoma) -- The Comanche County Board of Equalization on Wednesday denied an appeal from the Comanche Nation of a property tax bill for a building that houses tribal...
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Experts: Tribal tax rule change a big deal (5/2/2013)
(California) -- Legal experts say a new federal regulation at the center of a lawsuit brought by Desert Water Agency could lead to dramatic changes to what money state...
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Nevada Online
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Banks have yet to install online gambling software (5/14/2013)
(Nevada) -- Station Casinos Online PokerSports wagering by deep-pocketed private groups could produce a significant spurt in commercial activity as more people with more...
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Oneida Nation
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Cooperstown schools changing Redskins nickname to get $10K from Oneida Indian Nation (5/14/2013)
(New York) -- An Upstate New York high school changing its sports nickname from Redskins to Hawkeyes is getting help from the Oneida Indians to buy new jerseys. Oneida...
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Wounded Knee
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Wounded Knee seller says he's still negotiating with potential buyers (5/14/2013)
(South Dakota) -- The Rapid City man who is selling a controversial parcel of property near the burial ground of the Wounded Knee massacre said Monday that he is talking...
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Wounded Knee Mystery Bidders Working to Secure Land for Tribe (5/8/2013)
(South Dakota) -- On May 1 the site of the Wounded Knee massacre was put on the open market by owner James Czywczynski with a price tag of $4.9 million. He says three of...
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Wounded Knee Historic Site Now for Sale on the Open Market (5/3/2013)
(South Dakota) -- The May 1 deadline came and went without a word from the Oglala Sioux Tribe, so James Czywczynski, who owns the site of the Wounded Knee massacre, has...
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Sioux don't have funds to buy massacre site tracts (5/2/2013)
(South Dakota) -- A small patch of prairie sits largely unnoticed off a desolate road in southwestern South Dakota, tucked amid gently rolling hills and surrounded by...
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New battle for Wounded Knee: sale of massacre site exposes tribal tensions (5/1/2013)
(South Dakota) -- Horses are sacred to Native Americans. For Kevin Yellow Bird Steele, one of the tribal leaders of the Oglala Sioux, there are few places in America as...
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Official: Tribe can't pay for Wounded Knee site (5/1/2013)
(South Dakota) -- The president of a South Dakota tribe facing a deadline on whether to buy a piece of land where 300 of their ancestors were massacred more than a...
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Sale of 'Wounded Knee' Massacre Site Extended (5/1/2013)
(South Dakota) -- Native American tribes declare themselves outraged by the pending sale of lands hallowed by the blood of murdered ancestors: Two 40-acre tracts of...
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SD tribe faces ultimatum on sale of massacre site (5/1/2013)
(South Dakota) -- A small patch of prairie sits largely unnoticed off a desolate road in southwestern South Dakota, tucked amid gently rolling hills and surrounded by...
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Wounded Knee Sale Negotiations Fall Through (5/1/2013)
(South Dakota) -- 40 acres of land where the Massacre at Wounded Knee took place may be headed to the open market. Its owner, Jim Czywczynski, set Wednesday as the...
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A Conversation With Wounded Knee Owner James Czywczynski (4/30/2013)
(South Dakota) -- James Czywczynski, the owner of the site of the Wounded Knee massacre, has stated publicly that he will wait until May 1 to entertain offers for the...
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The new battle for Wounded Knee: Sale of massacre site divides tribe (4/30/2013)
(South Dakota) -- Some of the Native American Indians living on the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota can still recall first-hand accounts of the massacre at...
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Wounded Knee Sale Deadline Looms (4/30/2013)
(South Dakota) -- As the May 1 deadline approaches for the Oglala Sioux Tribe to purchase the historic site of Wounded Knee for millions of dollars, the tribe has made...
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The Battle Over Wounded Knee: Who Deserves The Land? (4/2/2013)
(South Dakota) -- More than 100 years ago, American soldiers massacred men, women and children in the last major bloodshed of the American Indian wars, making the...
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New York Gaming
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Amid Scandals, NY Senate GOP Leader Dean Skelos Warns Members About Casino Cash (5/13/2013)
(New York) -- Here is the expanded lead item from my "Albany Insider" column from today: With the state capital besieged by criminal investigations, Senate...
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Canada Online
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P.E.I. Lotteries Commission late for audit (5/2/2013)
(Prince Edward Island) -- The Opposition wants to know if the government is hiding something in financial statements provided late by the P.E.I. Lotteries Commission....
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Foxwoods
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Feds bar Mashantucket official from doing business with government (5/1/2013)
(Connecticut) -- Steven Thomas, the Mashantucket Pequot treasurer facing federal charges that he stole from the tribe, has been barred from doing business with the U.S....
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US bars Mashantucket Pequot tribal official from dealings (5/1/2013)
(Connecticut) -- The treasurer for the tribe that owns and operates the Foxwoods Resort Casino has been barred from doing business with the U.S. government, nearly five...
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Mining & Drilling
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Report warns of 'catastrophic' uprising (5/1/2013)
(Canada) -- Canada faces a potentially "catastrophic" uprising unless aboriginal Canadians become full participants in natural resource extraction, a prominent...
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N.D. House easily rejects oil tax bill (5/1/2013)
(North Dakota) -- Nearly 80 percent of House members voted Wednesday to kill a bill that would have reduced the state’s oil extraction tax by one-half of 1 percent.
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Australia's boom is anything but for its Aboriginal people (4/28/2013)
(Australia) -- Eleven miles by ferry from Perth is Western Australia's "premier tourist destination". This is Rottnest Island, whose scabrous wild beauty...
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Cobell
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Law firm sees jump in revenue thanks to Cobell settlement (4/30/2013)
(Washington D.C.) -- Kilpatrick Townsend saw a 12.3 percent increase in revenue thanks to its role in the the $3.4 billion Cobell trust fund settlement.
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West Virginia Gaming
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W.Va. Taxpayers Subsidizing Out-of-State Horse Breeding (4/28/2013)
(West Virginia) -- State taxpayers shelled out $92 million last year to fund horse and dog racing in West Virginia, a review by the Sunday News-Register has revealed.
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Massachusetts Online
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New Massachusetts Budget Plans For Online Poker (4/21/2013)
(Massachusetts) -- Like many state governments across the United States, the state of Massachusetts is currently preparing its budget for the upcoming year. As a part of...
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Internet Sweepstake Cafes
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Report: vendor money targeted Ohio lawmakers (4/20/2013)
(Ohio) -- A supplier for Ohio's embattled Internet cafe industry apparently targeted state lawmakers with campaign contributions before a key vote, according to a...
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Gambling parlors spent widely on Fla. officials (4/9/2013)
(Florida) -- Strip-mall parlors with slot-like computer games such as those targeted in a state racketeering and conspiracy investigation have given about $100,000 in...
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First Nations Politics
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Financial Transparency Legislation Renews Controversy Over First Nation Chiefs' Salaries (4/19/2013)
(Canada) -- Newly enacted federal legislation forcing First Nations to disclose their leaders' salaries and spending online has been decried by critics who say the...
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New Hampshire Gaming
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Hassan: Casino key to state finances (4/16/2013)
(New Hampshire) -- Hours before testifying in front of a House committee in favor of a bill that would bring casino gambling to New Hampshire, Gov. Maggie Hassan was in...
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Tobacco & Cigarettes
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Court shoots down Yakama tobacco company lawsuit (4/8/2013)
(Washington) -- A tobacco company owned by a Yakama Nation tribal member must pay into an escrow account established under a 1998 settlement with big tobacco companies,...
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Vikings Stadium
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Racino proposed as answer for Vikings stadium and budget (4/8/2013)
(Minnesota) -- The racetrack casino concept has been resurrected at the State Capitol as a way to help balance the state budget and solve the Vikings stadium funding...
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With Pull-Tab Profits Low, Sports Gear Tax Proposed For Vikes Stadium (4/8/2013)
(Minnesota) -- Supporters of a racetrack casino are back at the State Capitol, and they say a racino could solve the Vikings’ stadium money problem.
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Victoryland
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State reveals cost of raid on Victoryland casino (4/1/2013)
(Alabama) -- As the question concerning the legality of electronic bingo in Alabama lingers, without a court date, we now know more about what the raid at Victoryland...
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Other News
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Kresge Provides $1.1M to Build Management of Urban Native American Centers (5/24/2013)
(Michigan) -- First Nations Development Institute usually works with rural and reservation-based groups, but yesterday it announced that it had received a $1.1 million...
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Sweat lodge users upset over fee (5/24/2013)
(South Dakota) -- A $5 portable toilet fee that is charged to reserve a Native American sweat lodge on the grounds of the Sioux San Indian Health Service unit is a...
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Northern Arapaho Tribe sanctioned for bad audits (5/23/2013)
(Wyoming) -- The Northern Arapaho Tribe is currently being sanctioned for not submitting their audits for the last couple of years, and the audits that were submitted,...
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Warren County casino campaigns spent combined $338,500 (5/21/2013)
(Iowa) -- Campaigns on both sides of a Warren County gambling vote raised money right up to Election Day, the latest campaign finance records show.
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NC Democratic chairman Voller made charges at Las Vegas casino on card bearing party's name (5/21/2013)
(North Carolina) -- The head of the North Carolina Democratic Party is facing questions about credit card charges made during a March trip to a Las Vegas casino to watch...
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House committee advances Indian museum funding (5/20/2013)
(Oklahoma) -- A last-ditch funding bill for the mothballed American Indian Center eeked through an Oklahoma House of Representatives committee Monday morning, setting up...
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Okla. House panel approves $40M for Indian museum (5/20/2013)
(Oklahoma) -- A plan to divert $40 million in use taxes over three years to help complete construction of an American Indian Cultural Center and Museum along the banks...
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Oklahoma House panel approves American Indian Cultural Center and Museum funding (5/20/2013)
(Oklahoma) -- The Oklahoma House Joint Committee on Appropriations and Budget voted 13-10 to use tax revenue from Internet and out-of-state purchases to provide $40...
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Linn County casino campaign cost $3.43 million, final figures reveal (5/20/2013)
(Iowa) -- New, final figures from campaigns for and against casino gaming in Linn County show the sides did not raise and spend $2.25 million, but rather $3.43 million...
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Odawa tribe to close Appleyard day care (5/20/2013)
(Michigan) -- Parents at Appleyard Childcare Center of Petoskey received a surprising notice Monday. The 30-year-old school would be closing its doors June 7, giving...
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Sequester cuts for CSKT Tribal Law and Order (5/16/2013)
(Montana) -- Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribal Law and Order Department are experiencing an approximate cut of $80,000 for 2013, according to Chief of Police Craig...
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NCI continues to seek funding, faces closure next month (5/16/2013)
(Arizona) -- The future remains uncertain for the area's only non-medical alcohol crisis intervention and treatment center.
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Some Native Americans could lose free health coverage under Affordable Care Act (5/15/2013)
(California) -- The men and women of tribes unrecognized by the federal government have always been welcomed at the American Indian Healing Center in Whittier.
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Lottery fever breaks out over two big-prize games (5/15/2013)
(California) -- In the six weeks since the California Lottery put Powerball into play, the game has generated about $70 million in ticket sales statewide.
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Purchasing Department to streamline Tribal Procurement (5/13/2013)
(North Carolina) -- The Purchasing Department, newly established in the EBCI Budget & Finance department, was set up to consolidate relationships with the Tribe...
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Health Reforms Penalize Some American Indians (5/13/2013)
(California) -- When Liz DeRouen needs any kind of health care services, from diabetes counseling to a dental cleaning, she checks into a government-funded clinic in...
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Sequestration Batters Schools On Military Bases And Native American Reservations (5/13/2013)
(Washington D.C.) -- As sequestration went into effect in March, some lawmakers argued that the impact of the cuts would not be as immediate as had been claimed, as they...
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Sequestration Nation: Cutting Impact Aid Funding Harms Our Nation’s Schoolchildren (5/13/2013)
(Washington D.C.) -- In the aftermath of Congress’s rapid response to address sequestration-related flight delays, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan stated that...
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NYRA seeks $1.2M refund (5/13/2013)
(New York) -- Saying it mistakenly overpaid a state authority $1.2 million to help develop New York's thoroughbred horse population the past four years, the New York...
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SkyCity locks in damages if gambling rules change (5/13/2013)
(New Zealand) -- SkyCity will be in line for hundreds of millions in compensation if a future government rewrites gambling regulations, prompting claims the new...
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