LandMining & Drilling
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Montana coal swap revised to make deal more even (2/17/2012)
(Montana) -- Hoping to placate critics of a proposed three-way coal swap involving the Northern Cheyenne Tribe, U.S. Sen. Max Baucus is offering new legislation to make...
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Arizona Tribal Group Denounces Land Exchange Bill (2/13/2012)
(Washington D.C.) -- Arizona tribal leaders were on Capitol Hill on Thursday, testifying against House Bill 1904, a bill that would allow copper mining on Native...
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Rio Tinto, Republicans Face Indian Opposition to Copper Plan (2/9/2012)
(Arizona) -- Rio Tinto Group is getting support from two key Senate Republicans -- and Indian tribe opposition - - as it seeks congressional backing for a land swap that...
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Lakeshore Mine was big undertaking on Tohono O'odham land (1/13/2012)
(Arizona) -- A new star has appeared on the horizon of the Papago Indian [now Tohono O’odham] Reservation, an industrial star which heralds a significant...
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Tribal Villages, Mining Firms Fight for Land In Indonesia (1/9/2012)
(Indonesia) -- Members of two tribal communities in Sumbawa, West Nusa Tenggara, say they are being driven from their homes by the authorities as part of a land dispute...
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Broken Arrow Casino
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BIA official: Lease approval needed for Broken Arrow casino (2/16/2012)
(Oklahoma) -- The land owners who are leasing property to an Indian tribe and developers planning to build a casino in Broken Arrow must have a lease that is approved by...
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BIA says landowners failed to seek approval for Kialegee lease (2/16/2012)
(Oklahoma) -- The Bureau of Indian Affairs has requested documentation from the owners of a plot of land being used by the Kialegee Tribal Town for a casino in Broken...
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Attorney For Proposed Broken Arrow Casino Confident It Will Be Built (1/25/2012)
(Oklahoma) -- A Washington, DC attorney who represents the Kialegee Tribal Town tells News On 6, federal law is on their side and he is confident the Broken Arrow casino...
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Indian allotments in Tulsa County could be used for gaming (1/20/2012)
(Oklahoma) -- While construction on a Broken Arrow casino continues on a privately owned Indian allotment, as many as three dozen other original allotments exist in...
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NIGC: Broken Arrow Allotment Not Eligible for Gaming (1/20/2012)
(Oklahoma) -- Construction of the controversial Red Clay Casino continues on a privately owned Indian allotment in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, but the property has been...
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No eligibility ruling yet on controversial ‘casino’ property (1/20/2012)
(Oklahoma) -- The National Indian Gaming Commission and the Bureau of Indian Affairs have yet to determine the eligibility of gaming on the proposed site for the Red...
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Official: Broken Arrow property not currently eligible for Indian gaming (1/20/2012)
(Oklahoma) -- A Broken Arrow property has not been termed eligible for Indian gaming at this time, a top federal official assured Rep. John Sullivan and Sen. Tom Coburn...
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Giles: ‘Plans in place long-ago’ (VIDEO) (1/18/2012)
(Oklahoma) -- Local land owner and accomplished attorney, Marcella Giles, is resolute in her position that under the law, and through plans in place long-ago, the corner...
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Owner of land for Kialegee casino works in Indian land rights law (1/16/2012)
(Oklahoma) -- Before she ever ruffled feathers in Broken Arrow by leasing her allotted Indian land for the construction of a casino, Marcella Giles represented Indian...
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Judge ruled against lease to Kiallegees for casino site (12/28/2011)
(Oklahoma) -- Before ground was broken recently for a new Indian casino in Broken Arrow, a judge ruled in August that the owner of the land could not transfer government...
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Native Voices
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TOENSING: Part 3: The Dawes Act Started the U.S. Land-Grab of Indian Territory (2/15/2012)
(Washington D.C.) -- February 8 marked the 125th anniversary of the notorious Dawes Act. This is part three of a three-part series on this devastating bit of legislation...
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TOENSING: Part 2: The Dawes Act Started the U.S. Land-Grab of Indian Territory (2/13/2012)
(USA) -- February 8 marked the 125th anniversary of the notorious Dawes Act. This is part one of a three-part series on this devastating bit of legislation. Check back...
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Canadian Land Claims
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Algonquin land claim deal near, lawyer says (2/14/2012)
(British Columbia) -- As the federal government grapples with festering aboriginal discontent, the chief negotiator for the Algonquins of Ontario says the group is on...
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First Nations say they should be able to acquire land for financial reasons (2/14/2012)
(Ottawa) -- First Nations in Canada don't have enough land for viable economic development and that has to change, a Senate committee heard Tuesday.
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Mohawk Man Accused of ‘Stealing’ Land May Prompt Resolution of Land Claim Lawsuit (1/16/2012)
(Canada) -- The case of a Mohawk man arrested in December for “stealing land” may be the engine that moves forward a land claim lawsuit that has languished...
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Métis Stake Their Claim in the Supreme Court (12/29/2011)
(Manitoba) -- The Métis are anxiously awaiting a Supreme Court decision on a potentially precedent-setting land claim covering 1.4 million acres in Manitoba.
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Gila River
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Gila River votes down Loop 202 plan (2/10/2012)
(Arizona) -- Members of the Gila River Indian Community have voted down a plan to move the proposed South Mountain Freeway a half-mile south, out of the Ahwatukee...
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GRIC vote takes freeway off tribal land, battle continues to save South Mountain (2/10/2012)
(Arizona) -- The Gila River Indian Community (GRIC) has spoken once again to not allow any freeway on tribal land. Now, the question is whether or not the Loop 202...
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Tribal vote may not end South Mountain Freeway struggle (2/8/2012)
(Arizona) -- Despite Gila River Reservation residents' resounding "no" vote Tuesday, the battle over where the South Mountain Freeway extension will land...
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Tribe says no to Loop 202 (2/8/2012)
(Arizona) -- Gila River Indian Community voters do not want a Loop 202 extension around South Mountain on or off their reservation, according to unofficial results in a...
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Gila River Indian Community appears to reject plans for South Mountain Freeway (2/7/2012)
(Arizona) -- In a vote Tuesday, the Gila River Indian Community appears to have killed any chance of relocating the controversial South Mountain Freeway onto tribal land.
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Gila River tribe split on freeway (1/29/2012)
(Arizona) -- For months, members of the Gila River Indian Community have gone door to door, urging their neighbors to vote in next week's referendum to decide the...
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Opinion: Gila River tribe should vote to allow freeway on its land (1/12/2012)
(Arizona) -- The Valley has talked for years about the proposed South Mountain Freeway, and Ahwatukee Foothills has made a powerful effort to push the freeway onto...
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AZ tribe to vote on freeway planned on reservation (1/3/2012)
(Arizona) -- Gila River Indian Community residents will vote on whether to allow the South Mountain Freeway extension on tribal land.
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Tribe votes soon on Phoenix-area freeway plan (1/3/2012)
(Arizona) -- Gila River Indian Community residents are scheduled to vote Feb. 7 whether to allow the South Mountain Freeway extension on tribal land.
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Cobell
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DOI releases land consolidation plan for Cobell settlement (2/3/2012)
(Washington D.C.) -- The Interior Department today released a draft plan to implement the land consolidation portion of the Indian trust fund settlement. The settlement...
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Feds release $1.9B plan to buy Indian land as part of Cobell settlement (2/2/2012)
(Montana) -- Federal officials have released their proposal on how they plan to spend $1.9 billion to buy up Native American-owned fractionated land tracts and turn them...
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Interior Seeks Comments on Cobell Land Consolidation Draft Plan (2/2/2012)
(Washington D.C.) -- The Department of the Interior today announced two important steps in the ongoing commitment to fulfilling this nation’s trust...
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Lansing Casino
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Land for proposed Lansing casino has $1.24 million price tag (1/28/2012)
(Michigan) -- Property for a proposed casino in downtown Lansing could cost an Upper Peninsula Indian tribe $1.24 million. The two-part land purchase between the city...
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Sault tribe would pay $1.24M for city land (1/28/2012)
(Michigan) -- An Upper Peninsula American Indian tribe that wants to build a casino in downtown Lansing would pay the city $1.24 million for property for the project.
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Land-Into-Trust
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Shakopee to oppose tribe's land expansion (1/24/2012)
(Minnesota) -- Shakopee will oppose the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community's latest attempt to take more land off the tax rolls.
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Anti-gambling group protests Sycuan plan (1/13/2012)
(California) -- A San Diego nonprofit group that tries to boost public awareness of problem gambling said this week it opposes plans to expand the Sycuan Indian...
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Chumash Tribe
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MORON ALERT: Annexation is welfare for rich (1/18/2012)
(California) -- The U.S. government created tribal annexation to get poor tribes off the welfare rolls, not to get rich tribes off the tax rolls.
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OP/ED: Farr’s avoiding chance to show leadership (1/5/2012)
(California) -- It's odd that Doreen Farr did not attend the meeting of 600-plus people a few months ago to address the proposed annexation by the Chumash tribe of 1...
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Chumash ask city to support proposed annexation (12/21/2011)
(California) -- The Lompoc City Council is not taking part in a mounting battle between Santa Barbara County residents and the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians over...
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Off-Reservation Casinos
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Commission Delays Annexing Proposed Kickapoo Casino Site (1/18/2012)
(Oklahoma) -- Citizen Potawatomi Nation Chairman John A. “Rocky” Barrett told Shawnee city commissioners Tuesday he isn’t opposed a new Kickapoo casino...
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Duluth Casino
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Duluth details objections to Fond du Lac Band's plans to expand downtown reservation (1/17/2012)
(Minnesota) -- Duluth City Attorney Gunnar Johnson fired off a letter Friday detailing the city's objections to a proposed expansion of the land the Fond du Lac Band...
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Fond du Lac's Application to Expand Trust Land Draws Criticism from City (1/17/2012)
(Minnesota) -- Duluth leaders are strongly against Fond du Lac's application to place more land in trust in downtown Duluth and they've sent a letter letting the...
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Attawapiskat Crisis
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De Beers “no trespassing” signs keep Attawapiskat trapper from following grandfather’s footprints (1/6/2012)
(Ontario) -- As the community of Attawapiskat continues to cope with a lack of housing, some in the community are lamenting the loss of their hunting and fishing grounds.
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Massachusetts Gaming
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Ameristar to finalize purchase of Massachusetts casino site in January (12/30/2011)
(Massachusetts) -- An executive with Ameristar Casinos told the Springfield Republican the company would complete a $16 million purchase of 41 acres in the Western...
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Keystone XL Pipeline
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Map details areas off limits to Keystone XL pipeline (12/29/2011)
(Nebraska) -- State environmental officials released a map Thursday showing areas of Nebraska that will be off-limits for the new Keystone XL pipeline. The map shows an...
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Fee-To-Trust
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Prior Lake City Council debates land-trust response (12/23/2011)
(Minnesota) -- A 23-acre piece of land where organic vegetables grow is the subject of the latest trust-land application in Prior Lake by the Shakopee Mdewakanton Dakota...
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North County Viewpoint: Bricks and Bouquets (12/23/2011)
(California) -- Today we pay homage to veteran columnist Logan Jenkins and his patented bouquet and brick format. Jenkins is due to return next week or early January...
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Seneca Nation
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Senecas support restricted-fee land legislation (12/23/2011)
(New York) -- A Congressional bill that could give more power to Indian nations to accept restricted fees on tribal lands has been endorsed by the leader of the Seneca...
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Calexico Casino
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Calexico casino talks resume (12/20/2011)
(California) -- A plot of Calexico land could hold the Imperial Valley's next casino. For Calexico, residents this is an exciting opportunity. At Tuesday's...
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Other News
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Southeast land deal threatens old-growth trees, Audubon says (2/22/2012)
(Alaska) -- More than 12,000 acres of the Tongass National Forest's oldest and largest trees are being targeted for logging under a bill that would place wide...
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SouthCoast lawmakers seek to exempt developer from historical regulations (2/21/2012)
(Massachusetts) -- SouthCoast lawmakers are still pushing new legislation to allow the medical software company Meditech to expand on historical Native American land...
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Westhaven: 2,000-year-old mounds reveal community's Native American past (2/21/2012)
(Tennessee) -- Our state name, Tennessee, comes from a Cherokee Indian town named Tanase (pronounced tan na see) near the Tanase River, down in what is now Monroe County...
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Nez Perce landowners, commission set meeting (2/20/2012)
(Idaho) -- A meeting between Nez Perce tribal landowners and land commissioners will be from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Thursday at the Clearwater River Casino Event Center.
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Shoshone farmer, Raymond Yowell, Set to Take on the Bureau of Land Management (2/19/2012)
(Nevada) -- In the past 80 years Raymond Yowell’s ancestral homeland has had more than 900 nuclear bomb tests, 50 million ounces of gold extracted from its depths...
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Tribe files new request to stop work on Indian burial ground (2/18/2012)
(California) -- A North County tribe filed two more legal actions Friday to stop construction on a Fallbrook road it says will rip through an ancient tribal burial...
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Road May Run Over Tribal Burial Grounds (2/17/2012)
(California) -- A road planned in Vista may send cars over the remains of ancient members of the San Luis Rey Band of Mission Indians.
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Tribe sues county, Pardee Homes over sacred site (2/17/2012)
(California) -- A North County tribe has sued the San Diego County government and Pardee Homes to stop the construction of a road it says will run over an ancient tribal...
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Fort Peck leader asks for speedier permit, lease processes (2/17/2012)
(Washington D.C.) -- If Congress is serious about encouraging energy production in Indian Country, it can start with speeding up the time it takes to get permits, leases...
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Six Chippewa bands to split $28 million federal payout (2/15/2012)
(Minnesota) -- The federal government appears ready to make amends for a dark period in Indian relations 123 years ago that took timber and land from six northern...
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President to sign land deal to protect Quileute Tribe from tsunami (2/15/2012)
(Washington) -- If a tsunami hit the Washington coast, there's a good chance an entire native community along the Quillayute River would be wiped out.
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Senate urged not to ‘squander’ opportunity in Resolution land-swap bill (2/15/2012)
(Washington D.C.) -- Arizona Senator John McCain demanded Thursday that Congress approve a bill to swap thousands of acres of federal land and clear the way for a copper...
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Tribes back bill to ease federal oversight of Indian-land energy projects (2/15/2012)
(Washington D.C.) -- Tribal officials told a House committee Wednesday that federal regulation of energy projects on Indian lands is a “major bottleneck”...
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'Twilight' tribe wins land transfer for tsunami protection (2/14/2012)
(Washington) -- Congress has signed off on a plan that will transfer 785 acres of federal parkland along the coast of the Pacific Ocean in Washington state to the tiny...
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Quileute Tribe 'Ecstatic' About Move Out Of Tsunami Zone (2/14/2012)
(Washington) -- "Ecstatic," "amazed," and "stunned." Those are some of the words being used Tuesday around the tiny Quileute Indian...
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Quileutes to move out of tsunami danger (2/14/2012)
(Washington) -- They cannot escape cultural misrepresentation of the “Twilight” saga, but the Quileute Tribe will soon be able to move to higher ground from...
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Federal board to settle dispute on island name (2/14/2012)
(Florida) -- A naming controversy between town officials and a state Native American group is going to a federal arbiter for a decision.
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Methodist church trust gifts land back to New Plymouth hapu (2/14/2012)
(New Zealand) -- The secretary of the Grey Institute Trust says the returning of land to a New Plymouth hapu gave him the chance to learn more about the history and...
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Congress OKs Quileute Tribe's Move To Higher Ground (2/13/2012)
(Washington D.C.) -- The US Congress has cleared the way for a tiny Washington tribe to move parts of its coastal village uphill and out of a tsunami zone. The move...
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Quileute higher ground legislation passes Senate, heads for presidential signature (2/13/2012)
(Washington D.C.) -- A land-exchange bill identical to legislation that overwhelmingly passed the House on Feb. 6 was approved unanimously in the U.S. Senate late Monday...
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