Government & PoliticsFlorida Gaming
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COLUMN: No destination casinos in Florida in 2012 (2/22/2012)
(Florida) -- The destination casino bill was put to rest in the Florida House of Representatives Subcommittee on Business and Consumer Affairs last month. Though a vote...
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Iowa Online
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IA Looks At Legalizing Online Poker (2/22/2012)
(Iowa) -- Online gambling, mainly poker, used to be quite popular. However, most of it was illegal and the federal government has shut down many of the websites. But...
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Iowa Considering Bill to Allow Internet Wagering on Poker (2/21/2012)
(Iowa) -- An Iowa legislative subcommittee is meeting today to consider Senate Study Bill 3164, which is “an Act authorizing licensees authorized to conduct...
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Iowa Poker Bill Tipped To Advance [sub req'd] (2/21/2012)
(Iowa) -- Despite a poll showing overwhelming opposition to Internet gambling in Iowa, a state senator on Tuesday predicted his online poker bill will pass the Iowa...
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Poll: Meager support for Iowa Internet gambling (2/21/2012)
(Iowa) -- Little more than a quarter of those who responded in a recent poll backed the legalization of Internet gambling.
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Bill would allow internet poker, within Iowa’s borders (2/20/2012)
(Iowa) -- A senate committee this Wednesday will consider a bill that would have the state-licensed casinos run internet poker games.
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Iowa and Illinois use the internet to boost income (2/20/2012)
(Iowa) -- Iowa and Illinois are trying to use the internet to generate income these days. Illinois is turning to online lottery sales while Iowa lawmakers mull over...
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Iowa Internet poker bill moves ahead (2/20/2012)
(Iowa) -- Iowa casinos could expand into the Internet poker arena under a bill that unanimously passed a three-person Senate subcommittee today. People would be able to...
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Iowa Senate subcommitte approves online poker bill (2/20/2012)
(Iowa) -- A Senate subcommittee on Monday approved a bill designed to legalize online poker in Iowa. The bill would bring online poker under state regulation despite...
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Keystone XL Pipeline
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GOP Presidential Hopeful Santorum Stumps for Keystone XL Pipeline (2/22/2012)
(Michigan) -- GOP presidential hopeful Rick Santorum visited three cities in West Michigan on Presidents' Day. He finished his day's campaigning at the Kent GOP...
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Lansing Casino
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Lansing casino controversy (2/22/2012)
(Michigan) -- Public relations executive Kelly Rossman-McKinney resigned from the Lansing Economic Development Corp. board today following a request by Mayor Virg...
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Lansing casino gets a boost (and leads to a resignation) (2/22/2012)
(Michigan) -- The proposed Lansing casino project has picked up a key endorsement. But there is some controversy of about the decision by a city economic development...
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Lansing Casino One Step Closer to Reality (2/22/2012)
(Michigan) -- Backers of a proposed casino in Downtown Lansing have jumped yet another hurdle. In a two-hour meeting Wednesday morning, The Lansing Economic Development...
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Lansing casino plans approved by economic development board (2/22/2012)
(Michigan) -- The board of the Lansing Economic Development Corp. approved plans for a $245 million tribal casino at a special meeting Wednesday by a 6-0 vote with one...
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Lansing Casino ‘conflict’ (2/22/2012)
(Michigan) -- Lansing Mayor Virg Bernero called on public relations executive Kelly Rossman-McKinney to resign today from the Lansing Economic Development Corp. Board...
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Lansing Mayor Virg Bernero accuses LEDC board member Kelly Rossman-McKinney of "flagrant abuse of public trust," demands resignation (2/22/2012)
(Michigan) -- Following a special meeting where the Lansing Economic Development Corp. board approved plans for a proposed casino, Lansing Mayor Virg Bernero issued a...
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Rossman-McKinney quits LEDC board after casino vote (2/22/2012)
(Michigan) -- A Lansing Economic Development Corp. board member who recused herself from a vote on a comprehensive development agreement for the proposed Lansing Kewadin...
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City Council Interacts With Tribe Spokesman (2/20/2012)
(Michigan) -- Lansing residents will have a chance to weigh in on the possibility of a casino coming to the capital city. The city attorney Brig Smith admits at the...
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Lansing city council expressing frustration at flow of information on casino project (2/20/2012)
(Michigan) -- Lansing city council members are expressing growing frustration at not getting the information they want about a proposed Indian casino project. The Sault...
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N.Y. Gaming
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Perales Explains Governor’s Budget, Racino Plans (2/22/2012)
(New York) -- Governor Andrew Cuomo’s budget for 2012 was explained by New York Secretary Of State Cesar Perales in a morning meeting held February 16 at the...
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South Carolina Gaming
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South Carolina Gets One Step Closer to Passing Stricter Gambling Law (2/22/2012)
(South Carolina) -- Lawmakers in South Carolina are making headway in their effort to outlaw casino-style gaming machines that they believe circumvent state laws banning...
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Vikings Stadium
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Vikings stadium deal perhaps not so near after all (2/22/2012)
(Minnesota) -- After an hourlong meeting Tuesday that included every major player in the stadium saga -- except officials from Minneapolis -- Gov. Mark Dayton emerged to...
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Broken Arrow Casino
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BA councilors consider denying utilities to casino (2/21/2012)
(Oklahoma) -- Broken Arrow city councilors will meet Tuesday to discuss the controversial Red Clay Casino. Councilors will look at if they can legally deny utilities to...
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Catawba Nation
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Catawbas postpone gambling plans until after judge's ruling (2/21/2012)
(South Carolina) -- The Catawba Indian Nation has put on hold its plans to launch a gaming operation this week, an attorney for the tribe said Tuesday. The Catawbas have...
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Census
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Census shows increase in Cherokee respondents (2/21/2012)
(Oklahoma) -- According to a Jan. 25 U.S. Census release, people claiming Cherokee lineage on their Census forms increased by more than 89,000 to 819,105 since the 2000...
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Enbridge Pipeline
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COLUMN: First nations don’t have a pipeline veto, but they do have options (2/21/2012)
(Canada) -- The Conservative government has shown that it favours Enbridge’s proposed Northern Gateway pipeline to carry bitumen from Alberta’s oil sands to...
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Canada revs up for fight over second tar sands oil pipeline (2/20/2012)
(Canada) -- The prime minister is talking about being "held hostage" by U.S. interests. Radio ads blare, "Stand up to this foreign bully." A Twitter...
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Federal Recognition
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Wappo wants counties out of recognition suit (2/21/2012)
(California) -- A local Indian tribe wants to push Napa and Sonoma counties out of its lawsuit against the federal government, arguing they’re disrupting the suit...
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First Nations Politics
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Ottawa’s relationship with Assembly of First Nations makes some natives uneasy (2/21/2012)
(Ottawa) -- Manitoba chiefs have joined those in Saskatchewan in condemning an action plan to improve the lives of native people, saying it was crafted without their...
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Aboriginals worried about effects of Tory crime bill (2/20/2012)
(Ottawa) -- The government's omnibus crime bill could put more aboriginals behind bars rather than addressing the source of high crime and incarceration rates among...
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Yukon First Nation keeps Skookum as chief (2/20/2012)
(North Canada) -- The Little Salmon Carmacks First Nation in Yukon has voted to keep embattled chief Eddie Skookum. At a special general assembly held Saturday, members...
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Kentucky Gaming
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Anti-gambling rally day before crucial vote on bill (2/21/2012)
(Kentucky) -- Their shouts of "No!" and songs filled the capitol rotunda. It was here where more than 150 members of Kentucky's religious community voiced...
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Beshear to testify as Senate committee takes up casino gambling on Wednesday (2/21/2012)
(Kentucky) -- A Senate committee could vote Wednesday on a proposal to legalize casinos in Kentucky. The Senate State and Local Government has the issue on its agenda...
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Maine Gaming
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Bangor casino receives license (2/21/2012)
(Maine) -- Hollywood Slots officially won Maine's first full-service casino license on Tuesday. The Maine Gambling Control Board granted a casino license to the...
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Gambling board approves Maine’s first casino: Hollywood Slots becomes Hollywood Casino Bangor (2/21/2012)
(Maine) -- The Maine Gambling Control Board unanimously approved the state’s first casino on Tuesday and the name “Hollywood Slots Hotel and Raceway”...
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Maryland Gaming
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Bill to expand gambling to get Senate hearing (2/21/2012)
(Maryland) -- A Senate committee will hold a hearing on a measure to expand gambling in Maryland. The Senate Budget and Taxation Committee is scheduled to discuss the...
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Opponents to slots in Prince George's County prepared to fight (2/21/2012)
(Maryland) -- As builders near completion of the largest slots casino adjacent to Arundel Mills in Hanover, state legislators are considering a bill that would expand...
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Prince George's voters favor, no wait, oppose casino (2/21/2012)
(Maryland) -- Public support for Prince George’s County Executive Rushern Baker’s proposed $1 billion casino is either growing or waning, depending on which...
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MGM Resorts
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Casino developers contend with traffic concerns (2/21/2012)
(Massachusetts) -- As it prepares its bid for a casino resort in Brimfield, MGM Resorts is working feverishly to accomplish an equally difficult feat: build a...
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Mining & Drilling
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Treaties may be trump card in tribe's fight to stop mine (2/21/2012)
(Wisconsin) -- Armed with its status as a sovereign nation and powerful treaties with the federal government, the Bad River Chippewa tribe has the legal muscle to do...
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Chief worried potash development may cause flooding (2/21/2012)
(Saskatchewan) -- A Saskatchewan First Nation in the Qu'Appelle Valley is raising concerns that future potash developments could cause flooding. Pasqua First Nation...
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Ohio Gaming
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Ohio's 1st casino shaping up; next comes slots (2/21/2012)
(Ohio) -- A former Cleveland department store that once had a starring Hollywood role showed off some new glitz Tuesday as backers of Ohio's first casino promised...
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Peek inside Horseshoe Casino Cleveland shows promise of things to come when casino opens in May (2/21/2012)
(Ohio) -- After a year of work, the Horseshoe Casino Cleveland has seen a steady transformation from construction zone to gaming palace. “When you got 600 people a...
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Pine Ridge
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County commission to review speed limit near Pine Ridge (2/21/2012)
(South Dakota) -- Pennington County commissioners will consider a request today from Rapid City Mayor Sam Kooiker to review the speed limit on a stretch of road near the...
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Supreme Court
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GAO report confirms big declination rate in Indian Country cases (2/21/2012)
(Washington D.C.) -- Federal prosecutors turn down 50 percent of cases in Indian Country, the Government Accountability Office reported.
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Wampanoag Casino
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Casinos industry spent millions lobbying in Mass. (2/21/2012)
(Massachusetts) -- When Massachusetts lawmakers finally adopted a bill to legalize casino gambling, it wasn't just a victory for would-be high rollers or the state...
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California Online
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California Awaits New Internet Gambling Bill [sub req'd] (2/20/2012)
(California) -- A new Internet gambling bill in California will face an uphill battle and a short, six-month window to be passed into law this year. New legislation,...
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Fighting Sioux
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State Sen. Schneider: Carlson mustn’t twist Legislature against itself (2/20/2012)
(North Dakota) -- I am writing as a member of the majority of legislators who voted in favor of Senate Bill 2370, legislation that repealed that section of the Century...
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Illinois Gaming
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Fears about Online Gambling (2/20/2012)
(Illinois) -- Forget having to leave your house to try and hit it big. Both Iowa and Illinois are looking into legalizing online gambling. That easy access to hitting...
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Jemez-Anthony Casino
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Jemez Pueblo Still Seeking Approval For Casino on I-10 (2/20/2012)
(New Mexico) -- Rebuffed twice already, Jemez Pueblo and partner Gerald Peters have resubmitted their application to the Interior Department seeking approval to build an...
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Other News
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Ontario should get out of gaming, says Hudak (2/22/2012)
(Ontario) -- Ontario should fold'em -- and hold-'em -- by getting out of gambling while regulating the industry, Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Hudak said...
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Hopi Tribe gets over $6 million from HUD (2/22/2012)
(Washington D.C.) -- The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development today announced $44.7 million in Indian Housing Block Grant (IHBG) allocations to 14 tribes in...
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Tribal Leaders Host Campaign Fundraiser for Grand Traverse Band Chairman Derek Bailey (2/22/2012)
(Michigan) -- Several tribal leaders from various Michigan American Indian tribes are hosting a campaign fundraiser for Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa...
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Kialegee Tribal Town Awarded Federal Indian Housing Block Grant (2/22/2012)
(Oklahoma) -- The Kialegee Tribal Town has been awarded a grant from the Department of Housing and Urban Development for affordable housing development and services.
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Harper to unveil aboriginal-education funding on Arctic visit (2/22/2012)
(Ottawa) -- Prime Minister Stephen Harper is heading to the Arctic in the dead of winter to add some heft to his promise to boost aboriginal education. Mr. Harper is a...
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State to re-examine schools' use of Native American mascot names (2/21/2012)
(Oregon) -- In December 2006, as then-Taft High School senior Che Butler waited to testify before the Oregon Board of Education against the use of Native American mascot...
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State bill would allow tribes federal jurisdiction in civil, criminal matters (2/21/2012)
(Washington) -- In 1953, the federal government began the process of terminating its relationship with tribes and transferring jurisdiction on tribal matters to states...
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Casino Reinvestment Development Authority approves almost $10 million for initiatives to improve Atlantic City (2/21/2012)
(Atlantic City) -- State officials approved nearly $10 million for initiatives aimed at improving the resort during the New Jersey Casino Reinvestment Development...
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Georgia House subcommittee passes Indian-casino bill (2/21/2012)
(Georgia) -- A super majority of the General Assembly would have to approve any land transfer to an Indian tribe wanting to open a casino under legislation that passed...
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Lumbee tribal chairman answers critics during meeting (2/21/2012)
(North Carolina) -- Lumbee Tribal Chairman Paul Brooks on Tuesday addressed allegations that he disregarded policies passed by the Lumbee Tribal Council.
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Ontario should bet against gambling: Hudak (2/21/2012)
(Ontario) -- Ontario should fold'em -- and hold-'em -- by getting out of gambling while regulating the industry, Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Hudak said...
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Proposal could cut millions from horseracing industry (2/21/2012)
(Ontario) -- Bitten by the horse bug at an early age, John Bax is a born and bred horseman. For the Peterborough man, training and racing standardbreds is more than a...
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Grand Chief of Canadian First Nations Visits Israeli Parliament (2/21/2012)
(Israel) -- The heads of the largest native tribe in Canada, the First Nations, visited Israel’s Knesset on Tuesday. They were led by Grand Chief David Harper from...
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Treasury Calls Congress to Action on Tribal Capital (2/21/2012)
(Washington D.C.) -- Congress all but guaranteed tribal finance to be a clear winner in the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act. Included in the Act were two...
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Tulalip Tribal Board chair delivers State of the Tribes address on Feb. 24 (2/21/2012)
(Washington) -- Tulalip Tribal Board Chair Mel Sheldon Jr. will give this year's State of the Tulalip Tribes address during the Greater Marysville Tulalip Chamber of...
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BLOG: Abraham Lincoln, the Great… annihilator of the American Indian? (2/21/2012)
(Arizona) -- President Andrew Jackson, founder of the current-day Democratic Party, makes the top of this new list of worst US Presidents released on this President...
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Cass County Board: Board to meet with tribal council (2/21/2012)
(Minnesota) -- A joint meeting has been set between the Cass County Board and Leech Lake Tribal Council on March 2 at Northern Lights Event Center at the junction of...
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Port Gamble S'Klallam receives $900,000 grant for affordable housing (2/21/2012)
(Washington) -- The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development on Tuesday announced $892,230 in Indian Housing Block Grant funds to the Port Gamble S’Klallam...
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Ban on Oxy without detox will trigger another crisis: NAN (2/21/2012)
(Ontario) -- The organization representing thousands of northern Ontario band members says a serious crisis is looming.
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Big Boost for Native Languages (2/21/2012)
(Colorado) -- The respect and recognition shown by Colorado lawmakers for a Native American language bill are encouraging and may portend smooth sailing through the...
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