Op-Eds, Columns & CommentaryMashpee Wampanoag
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GUEST OPINION: In casino debate, evaluate the credibility of 'experts' (5/16/2012)
(Massachusetts) -- Growing up among my Mashpee Wampanoag family, I was immersed in tribal pride and traditions. One of the most important traditions is our regard for...
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LETTER: Play the casino hand out, Taunton (5/15/2012)
(Massachusetts) -- Last week, Bob Russell from Westport penned a letter that was as critical of the gaming initiative to come before Taunton for a vote on June 9 as it...
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GUEST OPINION: Mashpee Claims vs. Regulatory and historical reality (5/13/2012)
(Massachusetts) -- In the May 8 edition of the Taunton Daily Gazette, Michael Speller, a spokesman for Arkana, the local subsidiary of the Malaysian Genting Syndicate,...
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LETTER: Getting answers to the casino (5/12/2012)
(Massachusetts) -- In June, the city of Taunton will have the responsibility of deciding by a referendum vote whether to allow a gambling casino.
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Wampanoag Aquinnah
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Your View: Is Fall River taking a gamble on casinos? (5/16/2012)
(Massachusetts) -- On the westbound stretch of Interstate-195 in Southeastern Massachusetts, the seaside city of Fall River lies just after the Braga Bridge.
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LETTER: Aquinnah should agree to abide by referendum (5/10/2012)
(Massachusetts) -- The Aquinnah represented to the Lakeville Board of Selectmen that they do not want to bring a casino to a community that does not want it.
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Whiteclay
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How to Address Alcoholism on Indian Reservations (5/16/2012)
(New York) -- In The New York Times earlier this month, Nicholas D. Kristof called for a boycott of Anheuser-Busch because of how the company’s products are...
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GIAGO: 'Beer sniffing' reporters descend upon Pine Ridge (5/14/2012)
(South Dakota) -- The “beer sniffing” reporters from across the country, particularly those of the New York Times, descended upon the Pine Ridge Reservation...
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NORRELL: When fat cat reporters come to town (5/14/2012)
(USA) -- When outside reporters come to Indian country, they seem to think that local reporters and editors are really anxious to work for them for free, and also to be...
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BLOG: Can a Bud boycott help the Pine Ridge Reservation? (5/8/2012)
(Philadelphia) -- In Sunday’s New York Times, columnist Nicholas Kristof called for a boycott of Anheuser-Busch (maker of beers like Budweiser, Rolling Rock, and,...
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LETTER: Alcohol and the Reservation: Anheuser-Busch’s View (5/8/2012)
(New York) -- Re “A Battle With the Brewers,” by Nicholas D. Kristof (column, May 6): We care about the tragic problems of tribal members on the Pine Ridge...
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Native Voices
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HARJO: What’s the Deal With Elizabeth Warren, Cherokee? (5/15/2012)
(Massachusetts) -- What’s up, you ask, with the “Native American” uproar in the Elizabeth Warren-Scott Brown race for U.S. senator from Massachusetts?...
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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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LaDUKE: A great chief, Randy Kapashesit, passes on (5/14/2012)
(Minnesota) -- "Moose Factory, Ontario: When Chief Randy Kapashesit returned this time his remote community in northern Ontario, the earth shook: tremors of 4.4...
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PEMBER: Daughters Given Up for Adoption Seek Knowledge About Their Culture and Birth Mothers (5/14/2012)
(Minnesota) -- This year, for the first time in a long time, Mother’s Day didn’t bring with it the painful unknowns for Jeanne Winslow and Rachel Banks...
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STEARNS: Self-Determination, LBJ and UNDRIP (5/14/2012)
(USA) -- On a sunny September day in New York City in 2007, the United Nations General Assembly gathered to adopt the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of...
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ROSS: Happy Mother’s Day: In Defense of ‘Mere’ Survival (5/13/2012)
(USA) -- My mom buried her oldest son, my oldest brother, when he was a teenager. My auntie buried her beautiful daughter, my cousin, not too long after that.
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LADUKE: A Great Chief, Randy Kapashesit, Passes On (5/13/2012)
(Minnesota) -- Moose Factory, Ontario: When Chief Randy Kapashesit returned this time his remote community in northern Ontario, the earth shook: tremors of 4.4 shook the...
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PEMBER: The Woman with the Beadwork Tattoo (5/11/2012)
(USA) -- A few months ago, while looking for something else, I found my mother’s beadwork. They are just bits, really, of much longer strips of loom work that is...
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D'ERRICO: Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: What’s in a Name? Say It (5/10/2012)
(USA) -- One of the most significant declarations ever to emanate from the United Nations, the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, is belittled—mocked...
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STEARNS: Self-Determination, LBJ and UNDRIP (5/10/2012)
(Washington) -- On a sunny September day in New York City in 2007, the United Nations General Assembly gathered to adopt the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of...
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KEEL: VAWA tribal provisions are constitutionally sound (5/10/2012)
(Washington D.C.) -- There is a group of criminals, on Native American lands, who assault, rape, and abuse Native women and they can’t be arrested. These criminals...
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CHANATE: Native Leaders, Vision, and the Paradox of Power (5/10/2012)
(Colorado) -- Having a vision for nation and self is recognized as an important trait for Native leadership. Envision a path that guides your people to a place of well-...
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BARREIRO: Making Fire (5/8/2012)
(New York) -- About a month ago, a client of Sky Woman Media pointed at me during a meeting and said, "I like the way she thinks." I overheard someone gush to...
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CHAMPAGNE: Consensus Among Government and Tribal Justice Systems (5/8/2012)
(California) -- In this country, all citizens are equal under the law—in theory. In Indian country, however, the courts, police and incarceration facilities are...
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Ontario Gaming
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Stinson: If Ontario is going to fleece more suckers, let’s fleece them properly (5/14/2012)
(Ontario) -- The McGuinty government’s plan to expand the operations of its agency responsible for lotteries and gambling has them, unusually, on the wrong side of...
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OP/ED: A lack of horse sense (5/13/2012)
(Ontario) -- Boneheads. That’s what Ontario finance minister Dwight Duncan called the folks who run Caesar’s Windsor for promoting a rival casino in Ohio.
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Deputy Mayor Doug Holyday wants to ban casino lobbyists from city hall (5/12/2012)
(Ontario) -- Casinos are something we've been hearing a lot about, ever since OLG Chair Paul Godfrey's announcement last month that the provincial lottery and...
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Foxborough Casino
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LETTER: Plainville should follow Foxboro lead on gaming (5/13/2012)
(Massachusetts) -- To the editor: When Steve Wynn said that the only way to win in a casino is to own one, Foxboro was smart enough to listen. Is Plainville?
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GOUVEIA: All about the casino: Foes controlled Foxboro message (5/10/2012)
(Massachusetts) -- In March, when discussing the political situation in Foxboro, I wrote the following: "The basic premise of successful campaigning is: If you can...
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Illinois Gaming
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Our View: Illinois pensions, casinos and Rockford's new bishop in stew (5/13/2012)
(Illinois) -- Ever since The Ledger, an online database of Illinois’ financial information, debuted more than a month ago, we’ve been watching the state...
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Mayor: New Track Slots A Bad Bet (5/11/2012)
(Illinois) -- Editor, Journal: As mayor of the city of Des Plaines, I am deeply concerned about a troubling proposal from the state’s horseracing industry that...
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Maryland Gaming
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Editorial: Gambling question remains (5/13/2012)
(Maryland) -- The special session of the state legislature to generate additional state revenue through tax increases is pretty much agreed to before the opening gavel...
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LETTER: Let's scrap Baltimore slots and put them in National Harbor (5/13/2012)
(Maryland) -- Dan Rodricks raises an interesting point but still only offers two possible solutions to the slots conundrum ("On slots: A deal's a deal, baby,...
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LETTER: It's a bet Maryland pols will get it wrong on slots (5/12/2012)
(Maryland) -- Kudos to Dan Rodricks' hilarious column on gambling at National Harbor ("On slots, a deal's a deal, baby," May 10). Under one-party rule...
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OP/ED: Casino will bring problems (5/12/2012)
(Maryland) -- Casino gambling: It’s sad to see it is coming to Western Maryland. Some powerful people and organizations know of its danger and what it brings. Just...
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On slots: A deal's a deal, baby (5/9/2012)
(Maryland) -- The approach to National Harbor, where three highways meet on the Maryland side of the Potomac River, is pretty much a wow, with the arched 18-story atrium...
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Ohio Gaming
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LETTER: Horseshoe Casino Cleveland: Harsh reality of casino (5/13/2012)
(Ohio) -- Backers of the new Cleveland casino ("Horseshoe's interior aims to provide a warm welcome," Thursday) may promote it as a fantasy wonderland, but...
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Editorial: Monitor Profits From Casinos (5/13/2012)
(West Virginia) -- Place your bets, Ohioans - casino gambling has come to the Buckeye State. Will it live up to its promises of thousands of new jobs and an influx of...
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Game on: If Horseshoe Casino Cleveland lives up to the vision of its developers, it can have a positive impact on downtown and the region: editorial (5/12/2012)
(Ohio) -- A billboard displays a clock May 10 counting down to the grand opening Monday evening of the Horseshoe Casino Cleveland on Public Square.
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Massachusetts Gaming
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Editorial: Betting on trouble, again (5/12/2012)
(Massachusetts) -- When Massachusetts lawmakers approved casino gambling, we warned that trouble lay ahead. Well, the slot machines and gaming tables haven’t even...
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OP/ED: Gambling: A profit and cost analysis (5/12/2012)
(Massachusetts) -- I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about gambling. Governors have been making the argument that people gamble, that they will always gamble, and...
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Opinion: East Boston, we can do better than a casino (5/10/2012)
(Massachusetts) -- Recently, I joined the group No Eastie Casino, and I feel I needed to explain why I feel so compelled to take up this issue in such a public way.
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Opinion: Resort casino would bring jobs, other benefits to East Boston (5/10/2012)
(Massachusetts) -- As a lifelong resident of East Boston who is privileged to represent this great neighborhood, I believe that a world-class resort casino at Suffolk...
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Toronto Casino
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Editorial: Toronto casino is a bad idea, even if it’s called an ‘integrated resort’ (5/12/2012)
(Toronto) -- Torontonians are about to get a lesson in three-card monte as part of the debate over whether to build a waterfront casino. And just as in the notorious...
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New Jersey Online
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BRENNAN: New Jersey – The Gambling State? (5/11/2012)
(New Jersey) -- Following up on the four gambling-related bills that cleared a New Jersey State Assembly committee on Thursday: There’s a committee divide among...
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BRENNAN: Online betting in NJ may inch forward this week (5/8/2012)
(New Jersey) -- I warned you here two months ago that “budget season” would dominate Trenton statehouse politics for quite some time, at the expense of...
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Pine Ridge
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KRISTOF: Poverty’s Poster Child (5/9/2012)
(South Dakota) -- This sprawling Pine Ridge Indian Reservation is a Connecticut-sized zone of prairie and poverty, where the have-nots are defined less by the money they...
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Vikings Stadium
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OP/ED: Gambling expansion would increase peril for some Minnesota families (5/8/2012)
(Minnesota) -- Who should pay for a new Vikings stadium? Minnesotans with gambling problems and addictions? It sounds preposterous, yet that's the effect of...
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Florida Gaming
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OP/ED: Lawmakers need to get gambling under control (5/7/2012)
(Florida) -- When it comes to gambling policy in Florida, the ball's back in the Legislature's court. In a recent ruling, the state Supreme Court declared that...
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Other News
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GROCHOWSKI; Calculating odds not always simple (5/16/2012)
(Illinois) -- There’s a coincidence of arithmetic about double-zero roulette that once led a reader to a minor confusion about the house edge.
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SCHWARTZ: As I bid adieu, things looking up for Vegas (5/14/2012)
(Las Vegas) -- It's been an interesting seven years. When I started writing a biweekly column for the Las Vegas Business Press in 2005, Las Vegas and the casino...
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Our View: Governor should veto mini casino bill (5/13/2012)
(Maine) -- It's not easy to find anything that almost everyone agrees on these days, when 40 percent is enough to win an election and 55 percent is considered a...
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OUR OPINION: Does Penn truly care about Sioux City? (5/13/2012)
(Iowa) -- Since word first broke that Missouri River Historical Development and Penn National Gaming were having difficulty reaching agreement on a contract extension...
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Commentary: In Praise of Native Mothers (5/13/2012)
(Michigan) -- We know within many tribes and communities, women are the driving forces behind change and progress. They are not simply Native women. They are our mothers...
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Ja:goh! A Mother’s Day Reflection on When the Days Are Long and the Load Is Heavy (5/13/2012)
(New York) -- When my son was born he was a load, weighing in at 9 pounds, 2.5 ounces. His Seneca name, aptly, is Ohnigodagweh: “He was wished for.”
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JENNEWEIN: Mother passed down stories of Sitting Bull (5/13/2012)
(South Dakota) -- Ernie LaPointe was the man I wanted to meet. He was going to be speaking about his book Sitting Bull at the Festival of the Books last September in...
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OP/ED: Mother’s Day: Aunties Rock the House (5/13/2012)
(USA) -- Aunties are a special breed. They are our mothers’ sisters, but friends and cousins can also be aunties. Your aunt is the woman who steps in when your mom...
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Opinion: Denver's Native Lacrosse spotlights sport's history — and its future (5/13/2012)
(Colorado) -- If lacrosse is ever to escape its reputation as a sport for the white and well-off, it will very likely come as the result of efforts aimed at attracting...
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OP/ED: Elizabeth Warren and the Politics of Being Indian (5/12/2012)
(USA) -- I listen to NPR nearly every morning just to have some background noise as I fry up an egg, toast a tortilla, and put an ice-cube in my tea so I can gulp it...
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Editorial: Help, Don’t Enrich Racing Industry (5/12/2012)
(West Virginia) -- An argument used frequently to convince state legislators to legalize gambling at racetracks is that it is needed to preserve horse and/or dog racing.
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Cedric Sunray: Racist tendencies common in too many tribes (5/11/2012)
(Oklahoma) -- Last month’s racially motivated killings in Oklahoma, perpetrated by Cherokee Indian Jake England and his white roommate against members of North...
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JoAnn Fitzpatrick: Elizabeth Warren -- Native American? (5/10/2012)
(Massachusetts) -- Elizabeth Warren has no connection to the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe, which is a good thing, because if she did she might stand to benefit from a...
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OP/ED: Is 'one-drop' rule overruled? (5/10/2012)
(Illinois) -- So what if Elizabeth Warren claims to be part Native American? She's entitled, according to historical documents. Besides, Americans never have been...
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OP/ED: Otero Mesa commentary: A plea from a young Apache girl (5/10/2012)
(New Mexico) -- I am an Apache Indian from the Mescalero reservation. Otero Mesa is more than just a place to me, it's a sanctuary. It is a place of peace,...
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OP/ED: Game Over for the Climate (5/10/2012)
(New York) -- GLOBAL warming isn’t a prediction. It is happening. That is why I was so troubled to read a recent interview with President Obama in Rolling Stone in...
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Our Voice: Toxic treatment site must meet the state standards (5/10/2012)
(California) -- If the Cabazon Band of Mission Indians continues to allow Western Environmental Inc. to treat tainted soil in Mecca, it should insist the plant meets the...
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Commentary: Rename Ebey Slough for local leader (5/10/2012)
(Washington) -- My Tribal name is "Scho Hallem" which means number one warrior. I'm from the Tuk tuk wa los (owl clan) and a descendent of the Snohomish,...
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Commentary: Tribe to host basket weavers’ state gathering (5/10/2012)
(California) -- Up and down California, the art of weaving Native American baskets isn’t just alive and well. It’s thriving. Tribal elders and others are...
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STUTZ: Sands has hot quarter, but some analysts annoyed after call (5/8/2012)
(Las Vegas) -- Sometimes, there's just no pleasing the investment community. Las Vegas Sands Corp. announced April 25 it had blown apart Wall Street's first-...
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