ArizonaNavajo Casino
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Officials: Twin Arrows to offer four-star experience
(5/23/2013)
(Arizona) -- As officials for the Navajo Nation Gaming Enterprise prepared for the grand opening of the new Twin Arrows Navajo Casino Resort tomorrow, May 24, members of...
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Twin Arrows Casino to have a $429 Presidential suite
(5/23/2013)
(Arizona) -- The new Casino boss, Derrick Watchman said the Navajo Nation spent $200 Million on the 4 star style luxury resort in northern Arizona.
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Navajo Nation opens flagship casino in Arizona
(5/20/2013)
(Arizona) -- New sets of twin arrows are beckoning travelers on Interstate 40 in northern Arizona. A grand opening for the Twin Arrows Navajo Casino Resort is set for...
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Navajo Casino Boss Pitches
(5/14/2013)
(Arizona) -- The wonders of marketing, the new Casino Boss Derrick Watchman pitched the new luxury Navajo Twin Arrows Casino on 3TV. The new Casino is set to debut on...
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New casino set to open near Flagstaff this month
(5/13/2013)
(Arizona) -- A new casino is set to open its doors later this month near Flagstaff. The Twin Arrows Navajo Casino Resort will host its grand opening celebration over...
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Glendale Casino
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State officials fight for trial in casino case
(5/22/2013)
(Arizona) -- State officials say a recent court ruling that allows the Tohono O'odham Nation to build a sprawling casino near Phoenix is improper.
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State officials fight for trial in casino case
(5/22/2013)
(Arizona) -- A ruling that allows the Tohono O'odham Nation to build a sprawling, Las Vegas-style casino in suburban Phoenix is improper because it is based on an...
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Appeals court issues ruling on proposed Tohono O'odham casino
(5/21/2013)
(Arizona) -- The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals says there’s still an unresolved question about whether a southern Arizona tribe was rightfully awarded...
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U.S. Court of Appeals Decision Favors Tohono O'odham Nation but Requires Feds to Better Explain Decision to Approve West Valley Reservation
(5/21/2013)
(Arizona) -- If you're keeping score in the Tohono O'odham Nation's epic -- and seemingly endless -- battle against state and local officials to build a...
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Appeals court orders re-examination of Glendale casino ruling
(5/20/2013)
(Arizona) -- One of the obstacles for the Tohono O’odham Nation’s plans to build a West Valley casino has boiled down to the meaning of the word “within.” The United...
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Appeals court rules Tohono O'odham land in Glendale cannot become reservation
(5/20/2013)
(Arizona) -- A federal appeals court gave foes of a new Glendale casino new hope it could be legally blocked. In a new ruling today, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of...
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Appellate court rules that issue on Arizona tribe's planned casino site remains undecided
(5/20/2013)
(Arizona) -- A federal appeals court says a key legal issue remains unresolved regarding whether a southern Arizona tribe was rightfully awarded reservation status for...
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Judge sides with tribe on Glendale casino plan
(5/18/2013)
(Arizona) -- Opponents of a proposed Las Vegas-style casino near Phoenix said Monday that a federal judge overlooked important evidence when ruling that the Tohono O...
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Opinion: Tohono leader’s victim act bit much
(5/18/2013)
(Arizona) -- Like egoists throughout eternity, Ned Norris Jr., chairman of southern Arizona’s Tohono O’odham Nation, wants things both ways. In fact, if...
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Phoenix-area casino bill denounced as biased
(5/16/2013)
(Arizona) -- The Bureau of Indian Affairs director on Wednesday condemned a bill that would prohibit more casinos from opening in metro Phoenix, saying that the measure...
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Judge overlooked evidence, say foes of casino near Phx.
(5/15/2013)
(Arizona) -- Opponents of a proposed Las Vegas-style casino near Phoenix say a federal judge overlooked important evidence when ruling that the Tohono O'odham Nation...
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Norris presents tribe's case at Alvarez meeting
(5/15/2013)
(Arizona) -- If you had last Thursday afternoon and evening time off and were interested in what’s going on in the world of Glendale politics, you may have found...
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The Tohono O'odham Nation's battle to open a casino near Glendale is a bit of revenge for previous injustices
(5/15/2013)
(Arizona) -- It is the understatement of all time to note that United States law hasn't been kind to Native Americans. Filmmaker Samuel Goldwyn is (probably mis-)...
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Arizona asks for reconsideration in casino case
(5/14/2013)
(Arizona) -- Opponents of a proposed Las Vegas-style casino near Phoenix said Monday that a federal judge overlooked important evidence when ruling that the Tohono O...
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Tribe Deal Didn't Bar Phoenix-Area Casinos
(5/14/2013)
(Arizona) -- The Tohono O'odham Nation's plan to build a casino near Glendale, Ariz., a suburb of Phoenix, complies with the state's gaming compact, a...
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OP/ED: Casino law had hole in it
(5/13/2013)
(Arizona) -- Regarding the proposed casino near Glendale: It is absolutely unthinkable in today’s society that an entity can walk into the middle of a metropolitan...
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Judge rules Ariz. casino does not violate gaming law
(5/13/2013)
(Arizona) -- A federal judge has ruled that a Las Vegas-style casino outside Phoenix, Arizona, does not violate that state’s gambling laws that were approved by...
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Tribal leaders: Bill would safeguard agreement on casinos
(5/12/2013)
(Arizona) -- New federal legislation introduced by Arizona congressional Reps. Trent Franks, Ed Pastor and Ann Kirkpatrick that would keep compacts intact deserves a...
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Casino court win might alter tribe’s relationship with Glendale
(5/10/2013)
(Arizona) -- Glendale officials are warming up to the idea — or perhaps just the inevitability — that the Tohono O’odham Nation will open a casino near...
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Dick Bowers, Glendale's New City Manager, to City Officials: Drop Lawsuits, Establish Positive Relationship With Tohono O'odham Nation
(5/10/2013)
(Arizona) -- After years of ongoing opposition to the Tohono O'odham Nation's plan to build a resort-style casino, the new Glendale City Manager suggests the...
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OP/ED: Casino issue has gone on long enough – stop the lawsuits
(5/10/2013)
(Arizona) -- After four years, one would think the issue of whether the Tohono O’odham Nation’s plans for West Valley Resort and Casino would be gathering...
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Acting city manager gives view on casino
(5/8/2013)
(Arizona) -- Councilmember Ian Hugh requested Acting City Manager Dick Bowers’ opinion about the city’s next step in the Tohono O’odham Nation casino/...
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Casino backers get another court win in fight for Glendale facility
(5/8/2013)
(Arizona) -- The Tohono O’odham Nation has won another round in court in its bid to build a $500 million casino in the West Valley north of Jobing.com Arena and...
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Tohono O'odham Nation claim another victory
(5/8/2013)
(Arizona) -- Another court ruling. Another victory for the Tohono O’odham Nation. The latest comes in the form of a summary judgment by Federal District Judge...
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Judge sides with Tohono O'odham in casino fight
(5/7/2013)
(Arizona) -- A federal judge on Tuesday slapped down the latest efforts by the state to block the Tohono O'odham from building a casino on the edge of Glendale.
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Judge sides with tribe on Glendale casino plan
(5/7/2013)
(Arizona) -- A federal judge says the Tohono O'odham Nation's plan to build a casino on the edge of Glendale doesn't violate the state's gambling laws.
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Judge sides with tribe on Glendale casino plan
(5/7/2013)
(Arizona) -- A plan to build a Las Vegas-style casino outside Phoenix doesn’t violate Arizona gambling laws approved by voters, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.
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Judge sides with tribe on Glendale casino plan
(5/7/2013)
(Arizona) -- A federal judge on Tuesday helped ease the way for a southern Arizona tribe to build a new casino in the West Valley. U.S. District Judge David Campbell...
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Tohono O'odham Nation Racks Up Another Legal Victory in Federal Court
(5/7/2013)
(Arizona) -- U.S. District Court Judge David Campbell ruled today that the Tohono O'odham Nation's plan to build a West Valley casino is in compliance with the...
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Congressman Ed Pastor Joins Congressman Trent Franks in Opposing Tohono O'odham Nation Proposal for West Valley Casino
(5/6/2013)
(Arizona) -- Congressman Ed Pastor joins Congressman Trent Franks's efforts to block the Tohono O'odham Nation from building a casino in the West Valley.
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Public Smoking
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Navajo President Shelly celebrates non-smoking initiative award
(5/22/2013)
(Arizona) -- On Tuesday, Navajo President Ben Shelly accepted an award at the 2013 Symposium held by the PHS Commissioned Officers Foundation for the Advancement of...
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Grand Canyon Skywalk
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Hualapai Claim Victory in Latest Skywalk Court Round
(5/21/2013)
(Arizona) -- In ongoing court battles over the right to manage the world-famous Grand Canyon Skywalk, the Hualapai Tribe claims victory in the latest round. But it...
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Hualapai 'couldn't keep up' after taking over Skywalk
(5/17/2013)
(Arizona) -- Hualapai Tribal Chairwoman Sherry Counts has acknowledged that a tribe-owned entity had trouble tracking Grand Canyon Skywalk revenues after it took over...
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Hualapai chairwoman leads through Skywalk battle
(5/15/2013)
(Arizona) -- The Hualapai Tribe has one of the most sought-after landscapes in the world: a slice of the Grand Canyon where tourists can raft the Colorado River, take an...
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Mining & Drilling
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Native Americans mined variety of minerals early on
(5/21/2013)
(Arizona) -- Arizona has a rich history involving aboriginal mining, sometimes digging for minerals and other times scouring the Earth's surface.
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Op-Ed: Gamma Rays and the Grand Canyon
(5/21/2013)
(Arizona) -- Uranium mining has left a poisonous legacy in the Four Corners region of the Colorado Plateau—Indian country where Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, and...
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Mescalero Apache Explore Rare Earth Element Mining
(5/16/2013)
(Arizona) -- The Mescalero Apache tribe of New Mexico says it is looking to expand it's economy by mining rare earth elements. The elements are highly sought after...
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Exploratory mining underway around Pajarito Mountain
(5/12/2013)
(Arizona) -- For the second time, exploratory drilling is underway in an area around Pajarito Mountain on the Mescalero Apache Reservation in a search for financially...
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President Shelly: federal regulations block natural resource exploration
(5/7/2013)
(Arizona) -- Navajo Nation President Ben Shelly said federal regulations have made it difficult to search for and extract natural resources from Reservation land.
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Navajo Nation moves forward with efforts to buy coal mine
(5/7/2013)
(Arizona) -- On April 29, the Navajo Nation Council voted to approve the creation of the Navajo Transitional Energy Company (NTEC), LLC, the next step in the Nation'...
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Code Talkers
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Code Talker to receive honorary diploma from Greyhills Academy
(5/14/2013)
(Arizona) -- Officials at Greyhills Academy High Shcool will award Navajo code talker Dan Akee, 92, with an honory high school diploma on May 17. It is 67 years overdue.
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Native Voices
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KILLSBACK: Iron Man 3 Blasts Sand Creek
(5/9/2013)
(Arizona) -- The majority of mainstream Americans know little to nothing of the violent and unjust history of the colonization of Native America. Anytime such truth is...
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Indian Gaming Revenue
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Tribal gaming revenues slide
(5/8/2013)
(Arizona) -- As the Tohono O’odham Nation pushes to build a casino just outside Glendale, tribal gaming revenues in Arizona slipped a bit last quarter over the...
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Tribal gaming revenue slips, but don't bet on a trend
(5/6/2013)
(Arizona) -- Tribal gaming revenues in Arizona slipped a bit last quarter over the same time a year earlier, the first time that's happened in more than two years.
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Gila River
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Initiative to approve the Loop 202 extention on tribal land still stands in limbo
(5/6/2013)
(Arizona) -- The Draft Environmental Impact Study (DEIS) for the South Mountain Freeway was released on April 26, but as the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT)...
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Other News
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Arizona tribe claims bank mismanaged investments
(5/23/2013)
(Arizona) -- The Hopi Tribe of northern Arizona claims its investments were mishandled by a national banking institute, resulting in the loss of millions of dollars.
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Arizona tribe claims bank mismanaged investments
(5/23/2013)
(Arizona) -- The Hopi Tribe of northern Arizona claims that advisers at a national financial services institute schemed to cheat the tribe out of tens of millions of...
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A coach as Vader? / Director unveils cast of Navajo 'Star Wars'
(5/23/2013)
(Arizona) -- The Force proved to be strong with this group of Navajos as they earned the seven primary roles in the upcoming Navajo-language version of "Star Wars....
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One-fifth of tribal voters purged from rolls
(5/23/2013)
(Arizona) -- The names of 28,722 individuals who did not vote in the last two tribal elections have been purged from the tribe's voter registration list, reducing...
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Bad-boy barber converts shed into barbershop, mancave
(5/23/2013)
(Arizona) -- A large-screen TV fills one corner of the one-room building. A basketball hoop hangs on the edge of the loft. A collage of scantily clad women plasters the...
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Hoops Pioneer Cliff Johns Talks About Schimmels, Valvano and Life
(5/22/2013)
(Arizona) -- After growing up in Pinon, Arizona, Cliff Johns, Navajo, says he understands what it is like to overcome challenges and break through barriers often faced...
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Tribal Leaders Support Governor Brewer On Medicaid Expansion
(5/22/2013)
(Arizona) -- Tribal leaders passed a resolution supporting Governor Jan Brewer's Medicaid Expansion Effort at the May 17, 2013 meeting of the Arizona Indian Gaming...
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Yavapai-Apache Nation signs historic Apache Alliance
(5/21/2013)
(Arizona) -- The Yavapai-Apache Nation participated in the Apache Alliance May 8-11 at Hon-Dah Casino on the White Mountain Apache Reservation.
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Medical emergency response times improve on Reservations
(5/21/2013)
(Arizona) -- Response times to medical emergencies on the Navajo and Hopi Reservations have historically been slow because of the long distances from Flagstaff Medical...
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Organization hopes to increase awareness of hazards in homes on Hopi Rez
(5/21/2013)
(Arizona) -- Multiple tribal departments, Hopi villages, federal agencies, and organizations are joining forces to create a public outreach strategy for addressing...
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Navajo and Hopi Honor Riders make annual run honoring fallen soldiers
(5/21/2013)
(Arizona) -- In 2002 Larry Noble, Bobby Martin and Lon and Lori Parker established the Navajo Hopi Honor Riders to honor the late Lori Ann Piestewa, the first Native...
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Will Disney’s new ‘Tonto’ be any better?
(5/21/2013)
(Arizona) -- The Hollywood image of Tonto once had the Lone Ranger’s sidekick wearing a thin headband and lots of dangling fringes. The latest Disney version has a...
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HIV Infections Increasing Among Navajo Tribe, Intensity in Impoverished Regions
(5/20/2013)
(Arizona) -- An alarmingly high number of HIV infections have been reported on a Navajo reservation near Arizona. This brings a huge concern to public health workers who...
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Rez Ball Is Big Time in the Navajo Nation
(5/18/2013)
(Arizona) -- In the days leading up to the Schimmel sisters’ recent championship run with the Louisville Cardinals in the NCAA Tournament, 20 Navajo high school...
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Billions of Dollars Being Leaked to Border Towns
(5/17/2013)
(Arizona) -- Border towns surrounding the Navajo Nation are making billions and it’s not benefiting the economy, says Navajo Nation CFO.
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Navajos weigh tougher crime sentences
(5/17/2013)
(Arizona) -- Under Navajo Nation law, tribal members can shoplift, abandon a child, obstruct justice, receive stolen property and commit burglary and fraud without...
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Naa'bik'iyáti' to hear report on NGS
(5/16/2013)
(Arizona) -- The Navajo Nation Council's Naa'bik'iyáti' Committee will meet today, May 16, at 10 a.m. to hear a report on the Navajo Generating Station...
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Navajo Nation plans to visit China
(5/16/2013)
(Arizona) -- According to an agenda posted on facebook by the Black Mesa Water Coalition, the Navajo Nation is expressing an interest or will visit China.
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NHA receives warning from HUD
(5/16/2013)
(Arizona) -- The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has sent a letter to the Navajo Housing Authority warning the entity it is spending its federal funding...
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Yavapai-Apache tribal leaders meet congresional delegation in D.C.
(5/16/2013)
(Arizona) -- Yavapai-Apache Nation Tribal Leaders participated in the Inter Tribal Council of Arizona's Congressional Impact Week April 22-26 in Washington, D.C....
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