FinanceNative Voices
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CREE: Turtle Mountain Band on the hook for a big loan (5/15/2012)
(North Dakota) -- Tribal corruption is something that happens often in Indian Country. I'm not saying it's an on-going thing, but it does happen and some of us...
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Disenrollment
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Robinson Rancheria evicts five disenrollees and their families (5/9/2012)
(California) -- On Tuesday several families that had been subject to tribal disenrollment several years ago were evicted from their homes on Robinson Rancheria. Tribal...
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Santa Ysabel Casino
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San Diego County starts collecting $3 million judgment from Santa Ysabel Casino (5/3/2012)
(California) -- The county recently began collecting a $3 million judgment against the Santa Ysabel Casino in rural North County after the tribe failed to pay quarterly...
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Fighting Sioux
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Fight over UND nickname has cost taxpayers more than $46,000 (5/2/2012)
(North Dakota) -- A dispute over whether North Dakota voters should decide if the University of North Dakota should keep its Fighting Sioux nickname cost taxpayers more...
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Mining & Drilling
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NREL study finds NGS, Kayenta Mine have $1.3 billion economic impact on Navajo and Hopi economies (4/4/2012)
(Arizona) -- A federal report has found that the Navajo Generating Station (NGS) and the Kayenta Mine contributed nearly $1.3 billion to the Navajo and Hopi economies...
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Nevada Online
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Beneficial applies for Nevada gaming license (3/21/2012)
(Nevada) -- Beneficial Holdings Inc. is the latest company to apply for a gaming license from the Nevada Gaming Control Board that will allow them to offer online...
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Foxwoods Resort
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As Foxwoods fights for its life, tribal gaming restructurings provide hope (3/15/2012)
(Connecticut) -- The New York Times Magazine’s cover story this week is a trenchant summation of the state of North America’s largest casino — the...
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Even As Foxwoods Stumbles, The Midwest Eyes More Casinos (3/15/2012)
(Connecticut) -- Growing debt and increasing competition are threatening the success of Foxwoods Resort Casino in southeast Connecticut, according to the New York Times.
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Foxwoods Casino and its Portents (3/15/2012)
(Connecticut) -- Casinos, like convention centers, over-expand, cannibalize each others’ customers, and eventually end up in the hole. Let exhibit A be Foxwoods,...
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Report: Foxwoods struggles with debt, competition (3/15/2012)
(Connecticut) -- Foxwoods Resort Casino is the largest casino in the Western Hemisphere. It covers nearly 7 million square feet and has more than 6,000 slot machines. It...
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Maryland Gaming
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Maryland faces millions in costs after paying more for slot devices than expected (3/15/2012)
(Maryland) -- When Maryland voted to legalize slot machines, officials opted to acquire the games of chance themselves so that the state would be responsible for the...
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Seneca Nation
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Senecas move to secure future of mortgages in city (3/15/2012)
(New York) -- A 40-year lease, with the option for another 40 years, once sounded like a long time. But the first term of the lease between the Seneca Nation of Indians...
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Bankruptcy
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Silver Legacy's fate could emerge in federal filing Friday (3/1/2012)
(Reno) -- The fate of the Silver Legacy Resort Casino and its $142.8 million mortgage debt will likely be revealed in papers to be filed Friday with the Securities and...
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Company to buy Hooters casino with $60 million credit bid (2/17/2012)
(Las Vegas) -- The main creditor of the Hooters hotel-casino in Las Vegas won the right Friday to take over the property and — importantly — its cash.
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Sheldon Adelson
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Sheldon Adelson Top U.S. Earner Under Obama (3/1/2012)
(Las Vegas) -- Casino mogul and online gaming critic Sheldon Adelson has made $21.6 billion during President Barack Obama’s time in the White House, according to...
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Choctaw Tribe
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Choctaws ink $78M debt deal with Trustmark (2/29/2012)
(Mississippi) -- The Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians has signed a debt refinancing agreement for the Pearl River Resort in Neshoba County and the Bok Homa Casino in...
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Mashpee Wampanoag
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Mashpee Tribe Plans Spending $30 Million In 2012 (2/17/2012)
(Massachusetts) -- A budget released by the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribal Council, calling for more than $30 million in spending for 2012, offers the most detailed look since...
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Vikings Stadium
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White Earth tribe to propose metro casino to help fund new stadium (2/15/2012)
(Minnesota) -- Officials with the White Earth Tribe will announce Thursday morning a plan to build a metro-area tribal casino with the state that would help pay for a...
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Massachusetts Gaming
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Patrick's budget sees no gambling revenue before July 2013 (2/14/2012)
(Massachusetts) -- While he proposed spending anticipated gambling revenues before casinos were legal in Massachusetts, Gov. Deval Patrick’s pending budget,...
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Lansing Casino
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Lansing casino developer applies for $20 million tax break for parking garage project (2/13/2012)
(Michigan) -- The developer of a proposed parking deck near the Lansing Kewadin casino project would receive a $20 million brownfield redevelopment tax break, according...
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Miccosukee Tribe
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Miccosukee members may owe IRS (2/13/2012)
(Florida) -- The Miccosukee Indian tribe in South Florida says its members might owe nearly $26 million to the Internal Revenue Service because of bad legal advice.
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Miccosukee Tribe Blames Ex-Lawyer in Ongoing IRS Dispute (2/13/2012)
(Florida) -- Going to a backup defense in their ongoing tussle with the IRS, the Miccosukee Indians are blaming the tribe's former attorney for "faulty advice....
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Pine Ridge
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IRS Audits Oglala Sioux Tribe’s Payments to Low-Income Tribal Members (2/13/2012)
(South Dakota) -- The Oglala Sioux Tribe is being audited for the first time in the last 12 years, and tribal officials fear low-income members may have to pay money...
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Enbridge Pipeline
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Enbridge won't negotiate with first nations (2/10/2012)
(Canada) -- Oil giant Enbridge says it will not offer better financial terms to aboriginal bands standing in the way of a major oil pipeline from Alberta to the Pacific...
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Other News
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2012 Native American $1 Coins Released in Bags (5/14/2012)
(Washington D.C.) -- The United States Mint is offering more options to get 2012 Native American $1 Coins. 100-coin bags of the dollars were released Monday, May 14, for...
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Fallin wants American Indian museum bond money (5/9/2012)
(Oklahoma) -- Gov. Mary Fallin says she's still pushing to include funding to finish an American Indian Cultural Center in Oklahoma City in a proposal for a...
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American Indian tribe asks judge to release accounts frozen by Okla. bank over governor flap (5/8/2012)
(Oklahoma) -- A Native American tribe wants a federal judge to force the release of $6.4 million in cash assets that were frozen at the request of a Clinton bank.
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Tribe appeals ruling in suit against mission school, diocese to Supreme Court (5/1/2012)
(Montana) -- A decade-long legal effort by leaders of the Northern Cheyenne Tribe to force the St. Labre Indian School to share its wealth has reached the Montana...
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First Nation chiefs to lay out flood-compensation cases (4/30/2012)
(Manitoba) -- Chiefs of two Manitoba First Nations at the centre of flooding disputes with Ottawa plan to lay out their sides of the argument Tuesday, the Assembly of...
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Okla. bank freezes fractured tribes' bank accounts (4/29/2012)
(Oklahoma) -- A June 8 court hearing has been scheduled on a Clinton bank's decision to freeze the accounts of two tribes embroiled in a dispute over leadership.
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Tribe’s ‘freeze’ challenged (4/29/2012)
(North Carolina) -- A member of the Lumbee Tribe recently filed a petition with the tribe’s Supreme Court requesting that the Tribal Council’s current...
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Indian cultural center: a worthwhile investment in Oklahoma's future (4/28/2012)
(Oklahoma) -- Oklahoma is in a position unlike any other time in its history. With the renaissance of downtown Oklahoma City and the Oklahoma River transformation into a...
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Tribe’s dilemma: Splitting $43 million / Ute Mountain Utes could distribute or invest it (4/28/2012)
(Colorado) -- The Ute Mountain Ute tribe is abuzz with both hope and concern about how to spend a $43 million windfall stemming from a recent court settlement.
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OP/ED: American Indian Center will boost state economy (4/27/2012)
(Oklahoma) -- Oklahoma is in a position unlike any other time in its history. Our population evolved in waves as America's history was being written. Today there are...
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Kickstarter Documentary 'Between Earth And Sky' Follows Family On Healing Journey (VIDEO) (4/27/2012)
(Michigan) -- Shoshana and Nathan Philips are from the Omaha tribe in northeastern Nebraska, where Shoshana served as a healer and educator. She was diagnosed with...
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New ownership taking over at Chapa-De Indian Health Clinic in Woodland (4/27/2012)
(California) -- Woodland's Chapa-De Indian Health Clinic will be under new ownership by July 1. According to Chapa-De CEO Lisa Davies, there will be no break in...
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More lucrative Pa. lottery may mean going to Internet (4/9/2012)
(Pennsylvania) -- The Corbett administration said in announcing that it wants to hire a private lottery manager that Pennsylvania needs a more profitable lottery.
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Ex-Las Vegas gaming executive sued by bank over short-sale deal (4/4/2012)
(Nevada) -- Glenn Schaeffer, a top Nevada casino executive in the mid-2000s, has been sued over allegations he failed to disclose all of his assets in a bank short-sale...
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Former Seminole leader David Cypress charged with tax fraud (3/30/2012)
(Florida) -- David Cypress, once a powerful and controversial leader of the Seminole Tribe of Florida, was charged Friday with filing a false tax return in 2007, for...
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Reservation counties have highest income inequality (3/26/2012)
(South Dakota) -- Counties with Native American reservations have some of the highest income inequality in the state, data from the U.S. Census Bureau shows.
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Crazy Horse monument still a work in progress (3/26/2012)
(South Dakota) -- It was to be the largest sculpture in the world: a granite portrait of a Sioux leader on horseback whittled out of a mountain in the Black Hills here....
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Not all credit cards suspended, reforms under consideration (3/22/2012)
(Arizona) -- Not all Navajo Nation officials lost the use of their government credit cards in the sweeping March 9 suspension order signed by President Ben Shelly, Chief...
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Legislation targeting gambling advances (3/21/2012)
(Louisiana) -- A House committee advanced legislation Wednesday designed to make it harder for gamblers to drain their bank accounts in order to keep betting.
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Gambler Can't Sue Tribe for Big Gambling Losses (3/19/2012)
(Oklahoma) -- A self-described gambling addict who lost more than $60,000 in student loan money at an Indian casino in Oklahoma cannot sue the casino's operators, a...
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