MinnesotaVikings Stadium
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Smokers may help fund Vikings stadium construction
(5/16/2013)
(Minnesota) -- Minnesota legislative tax negotiators tentatively approved a plan today to use cigarette tax increase funds and close corporate tax loopholes to provide...
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Sports memorabilia tax won’t pay for Vikings stadium
(5/14/2013)
(Minnesota) -- It sounds like sports fans will not be paying a new tax on pro jerseys, posters and trading cards to help pay for new Minnesota Vikings stadium.
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E-Bingo Now Closely Watched as Funding Source for Vikes Stadium
(5/8/2013)
(Minnesota) -- Electronic pull tabs have not done so well and that means electronic bingo will be under a microscope of scrutiny.
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Minnesota introduces new way to fund Vikes stadium
(5/5/2013)
(Minnesota) -- It is a strategy to help fund the new Minnesota Vikings stadium, but one that has been coming up very short of expectations. Electronic pulltabs are not...
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Could E-bingo be the answer to the stadium revenue issue?
(4/29/2013)
(Minnesota) -- Electronic pull tabs have come up short when it comes to revenue. Originally expected to bring in $35 million the first year, it's now predicted to...
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Minnesota bets on e-bingo to fund Vikings stadium
(4/27/2013)
(Minnesota) -- Starting this week, Minnesota will be the first state to launch statewide electronic bingo systems allowing players at dozens of locations to compete for...
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Head of gambling board says stadium financing will overcome bumps
(4/25/2013)
(Minnesota) -- Make no mistake about it, Tom Barrett says. There have been “bumps in the road” and the net results from the state’s foray into...
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Lawmakers explore ways to boost sales of e-pulltabs to fund Vikings stadium
(4/16/2013)
(Minnesota) -- Before Minnesota takes dramatic steps to shore up Vikings stadium funding, it should search for ways to boost public enthusiasm for the electronic pulltab...
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Interest low locally for e-gaming
(4/14/2013)
(Minnesota) -- When electronic gambling rolled out statewide last fall to help pay for the new Vikings stadium, two Mankato bars hopped aboard.
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Racino Bill Aims To Solve Stadium Funding Woes
(4/9/2013)
(Minnesota) -- Funding for the Viking stadium has come up short at the Capitol in the past, but racino advocates say lawmakers can’t ignore it any longer.
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BLOG: Minnesota to fund Vikings stadium by urging residents to gamble more, more, MORE!
(4/8/2013)
(Minnesota) -- This is what it’s come to in Minnesota: The state is now planning on spending money to encourage residents to gamble more in bars, in hopes that...
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Lottery's role may grow in Vikings stadium funding
(4/8/2013)
(Minnesota) -- The Minnesota Lottery may end up playing a larger role than originally anticipated in the funding of the Vikings stadium. Gov. Mark Dayton told reporters...
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Racino proposed as answer for Vikings stadium and budget
(4/8/2013)
(Minnesota) -- The racetrack casino concept has been resurrected at the State Capitol as a way to help balance the state budget and solve the Vikings stadium funding...
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With Pull-Tab Profits Low, Sports Gear Tax Proposed For Vikes Stadium
(4/8/2013)
(Minnesota) -- Supporters of a racetrack casino are back at the State Capitol, and they say a racino could solve the Vikings’ stadium money problem.
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Plan To Use Gambling To Help State Pay For Portion Of New Vikings Stadium Is Failing Horribly
(4/1/2013)
(Minnesota) -- Did Minnesotans just get hustled? In a desperate high-stakes bid to keep the Minnesota Vikings football franchise, which threatened to relocate (some...
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Joe Soucheray: So, governor, the Vikings suckered us. What'll you do about it?
(3/30/2013)
(Minnesota) -- It seems that electronic pull-tabs and bingo aren't generating enough money to pay off Tubby Smith, much less fund the state's portion of a new...
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Vikings stadium: Dayton says panic alarms premature over e-pulltab revenue
(3/30/2013)
(Minnesota) -- Gov. Mark Dayton reiterated Tuesday, March 26, that he didn't know gaming industry representatives were consulted in working up estimates for how much...
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Inside Gaming: Funding for the Minnesota Vikings Stadium Falls Short, and More
(3/29/2013)
(Minnesota) -- In this week’s edition of Inside Gaming, e-pulltab gaming is failing to help build a new stadium for the Minnesota Vikings, the West Virginia Senate...
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Ruben Rosario: Vikings stadium deal was fool's gold. Legislators need to try again.
(3/29/2013)
(Minnesota) -- Rip it up. Shred it. Scrap the whole thing or start again from a position of strength. I'm talking here about the flawed deal state legislators and...
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Vikings stadium: GOP senator seeks investigation of pull-tab funding projections
(3/29/2013)
(Minnesota) -- A state senator and ardent critic of the public financing plan for the new Vikings stadium wants Minnesota lawmakers to investigate failed revenue...
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Gambling revenue from e-pulltabs falls victim to old-school habits
(3/27/2013)
(Minnesota) -- The patrons at Porky's Bar on the East Side of St. Paul really like electronic pulltab gambling. Guys like college maintenance worker Jim Brees make...
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Dayton: We’ll fix Vikings stadium financing
(3/27/2013)
(Minnesota) -- Gov. Mark Dayton said all sides acted “in good faith” in depending on new e-pulltabs to fund a Vikings stadium and must accept responsibility...
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Gambling firms drove flawed Minnesota e-pulltab funding plan
(3/24/2013)
(Minnesota) -- The botched projections showing that electronic pulltab sales would explode in Minnesota and immediately start paying for a new Minnesota Vikings stadium...
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Gambling firms drove flawed e-pulltab funding plan
(3/23/2013)
(Minnesota) -- The botched projections showing that electronic pulltab sales would explode in Minnesota and immediately start paying for a new Minnesota Vikings stadium...
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Minn. gambling board approves high-tech bingo
(3/19/2013)
(Minnesota) -- The Minnesota Gambling Control Board has approved electronic bingo to help pay for the state's share of the Minnesota Vikings' new $975 million...
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Minnesota gambling board approves high-tech bingo
(3/18/2013)
(Minnesota) -- The Minnesota Gambling Control Board has approved electronic bingo to help pay for the state's share of the Minnesota Vikings' new $975 million...
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New electronic bingo games OK'd to help fund Vikings stadium
(3/18/2013)
(Minnesota) -- Bingo games with jackpots of up to $75,000 will hit Minnesota bars and restaurants soon. The first electronic bingo games linking players across the state...
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Red Lake Tribe
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'Twilight' actor part of Red Lake youth conference
(4/28/2013)
(Minnesota) -- The Red Lake Tribal Council is hosting its annual Youth Leadership Conference this week — and it will feature an appearance by an American Indian...
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Red Lake Hosts Successful and Fun Gathering of Elders
(4/27/2013)
(Minnesota) -- More than 350 elders attended Red Lake’s Third Annual Elder Gathering at Seven Clans Casino Red Lake on April 1 to 2. Much of the agenda was anishaa...
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Red Lake’s Earth Day Event Focuses on Healthy Homes
(4/23/2013)
(Minnesota) -- Healthy Homes is the theme for Aki Giizhigad, or Earth Day events at Red Lake on Thursday, April 25. All events are being held at the Seven Clans Casino...
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Red Lake Members To Walk for Anti-Sexual Violence
(4/18/2013)
(Minnesota) -- On Wednesday, April 24, Red Lake members will band together against sexual violence in a walk sponsored by Equay Wiigamig, the women's shelter on the...
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Red Lake Nation gathering recognizes elders’ contributions
(4/1/2013)
(Minnesota) -- The Third Annual Elders Gathering at the Red Lake Nation Seven Clans Casino Monday mixed frivolity with tradition and honors with fun.
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Three convicted in deadly Red Lake reservation robbery
(3/12/2013)
(Minnesota) -- A federal jury has convicted three men involved in a deadly robbery on the Red Lake Indian Reservation on New Year’s Day 2011, the U.S. Department...
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Land Issues
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City of Duluth, Fond du Lac Band continue to spar over Carter Hotel
(4/27/2013)
(Minnesota) -- The latest round involves a dispute over whether the city can force the band to replace the severely compromised roof of the abandoned downtown Duluth...
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Violence Against Women Act (VAWA)
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Expanded Violence Against Women Act to cover some Indian women
(4/24/2013)
(Minnesota) -- Advocates for Indian women in Minnesota are hailing a decision by Congress to reauthorize and expand the Violence Against Women Act.
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BACHMANN: Why I voted for the better VAWA
(3/22/2013)
(Minnesota) -- Violence against women is tragic and unacceptable, and fighting against domestic violence is not, and should never be, a partisan issue. That’s why...
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White Earth 1st to team up with US prosecutors
(3/17/2013)
(Minnesota) -- An American Indian tribe in northern Minnesota will become the first in the country to team up with federal prosecutors under a law designed to improve...
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Our View: Advocates make VAWA difference
(3/10/2013)
(Minnesota) -- Finally. After months of resisting an expansion of the Violence Against Women Act, House Republicans waved the white flag.
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Sexual violence scars Native American women
(3/10/2013)
(Minnesota) -- It seems like an idyllic memory at first - hiding under a table as a small child, watching her family as they go about their business, unaware of her...
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Violence Against Women Act reauthorization hailed in Indian Country
(3/7/2013)
(Minnesota) -- Advocates for Indian women in Minnesota are hailing a decision by Congress to reauthorize and expand the Violence Against Women Act.
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Keystone XL Pipeline
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Canadian ambassador to U.S. calls for Keystone XL approval
(4/19/2013)
(Minnesota) -- As the battle over the Keystone XL pipeline sharpened this week at State Department hearings in Nebraska, Canada’s ambassador to the United States...
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Duluth Casino
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Appeals court sides with city of Duluth in ongoing Carter Hotel case
(4/16/2013)
(Minnesota) -- A decision issued by the Minnesota Court of Appeals Monday has steeled the Duluth city administration’s resolve to block the growth of Indian lands...
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As Duluth's deal falls, nationwide, tribal casinos share 12%
(4/13/2013)
(Minnesota) -- Though casino revenue-sharing has been halted between the city of Duluth and the Fond du Lac Band by the National Indian Gaming Commission, other tribal...
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Wounded Knee
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Massacres and Denial: Why Can’t America be Honest?
(4/14/2013)
(Minnesota) -- Every once in a while a really nice example of institutional racism emerges from the corporate media and gives us a chance to expose unexamined...
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Enbridge Pipeline
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Enbridge pipelines draw protest in Bemidji
(4/10/2013)
(Minnesota) -- An act of civil disobedience over oil pipelines on the Red Lake Indian Reservation ended with a moment of civility Wednesday.
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Red Lake Band of Chippewa Determined in Blockade Atop Four Enbridge Pipelines in Minnesota
(4/4/2013)
(Minnesota) -- More than a month after members of the Red Lake Band of Chippewa set up camp atop four oil pipelines to protest Enbridge Inc.’s alleged lack of...
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Mascot Issue
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OP/ED: The Native American mascot: tribute or disrespect?
(3/28/2013)
(Minnesota) -- To understand the controversy surrounding Native American mascots, it is important to know the definition of a mascot. Mascot is defined as “a...
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Minnesota Gaming
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$56.5 million spent on lobbying in 2012
(3/20/2013)
(Minnesota) -- Business, labor, sports and other groups spent about $54 million on lobbying at the state Capitol in 2012, according to data released Wednesday, March 20...
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MIGA: Gambling Proposal Abound in 2013 Legislature
(3/11/2013)
(Minnesota) -- As expected, there is no shortage of gambling expansion proposals awaiting consideration by the 2013 Minnesota Legislature.
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Shakopee Mdewakanton
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Running Aces fights shutdown threat, blames Mystic Lake
(3/8/2013)
(Minnesota) -- Officials at Running Aces Harness Park made an emotional plea to the Minnesota Racing Commission to keep the horse track open as it faces a petition by 1,...
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Other News
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Bemidji restaurant serves up Native American cuisine, culture
(5/20/2013)
(Minnesota) -- A new restaurant in Bemidji is serving up Native American food, and also some of its culture.
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Cook County man charged with attempted murder in casino stabbing
(5/20/2013)
(Minnesota) -- A man who allegedly stabbed a Grand Portage Casino guard in the neck was charged Thursday with attempted first-degree murder.
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Upper Sioux Tribal Elder, Educator and Historian Tom Ross Walks On
(5/19/2013)
(Minnesota) -- Upper Sioux tribal elder, educator and historian Tom Ross walked on May 10 at Abbott Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He was 64.
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After Decade Slump, Horse Breeding & Racing On The Rise
(5/17/2013)
(Minnesota) -- It’s a big night for racing in the Twin Cities, as the horses at Canterbury park are ready for the start of the racing season.
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UMD graduates first cohort of tribal management program
(5/16/2013)
(Minnesota) -- Tiger Brown Bull has traveled great lengths to earn his masters degree. In two years he has put 40,000 miles on his car to make 20 weekend trips from Kyle...
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Researchers on Mille Lacs wonder 'where are the walleye?'
(5/16/2013)
(Minnesota) -- There are serious concerns that a well known, world class fishery is suffering through a walleye shortage right now. The DNR has put some heavy...
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Some Women Get in the Gambling Game, Lose it all to Addiction
(5/16/2013)
(Minnesota) -- Compulsive gambling among women is often called the hidden addiction. While men are considered "action" gamblers, it's estimated that 95...
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Quirk in health law may affect some American Indians in Minnesota
(5/15/2013)
(Minnesota) -- A wrinkle in the federal Affordable Care Act that could affect tens of thousands of people who consider themselves Native Americans nationwide isn't...
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Historical Sioux Tribal Newspapers See the Light of Day
(5/15/2013)
(Minnesota) -- A determined need to know more about their heritage and history is what drove the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community in Minnesota to want to digitize...
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Material of Native treaties developed
(5/13/2013)
(Minnesota) -- “WhyTreatiesMatter: Self-Government in the Dakota and Ojibwe Nations,” a traveling exhibit that explores Native nations in Minnesota and their...
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New show at Indian museum
(5/13/2013)
(Minnesota) -- “Naamijig: Honoring our traditions,” is a special event at the Mille Lacs Indian Museum and Trading Post, May 15 through Aug. 18.
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"I’m Not Your Indian Any More": Over 40 years of American Indian Movement history featured in exhibit
(5/10/2013)
(Minnesota) -- The American Indian Movement will open its first exhibit telling the story of its history on May 10th at the All My Relations Gallery. Planning for the...
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Grand Casino Mille Lacs to sponsor Mille Lacs shoreline clean-up
(5/9/2013)
(Minnesota) -- Community organizations, homeowners and individuals are encouraged to participate in an Adopt-a-Shoreline lakeshore clean-up effort on Sunday, May 19,...
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Radio-collared moose caught on camera 'doesn't look very good'
(5/8/2013)
(Minnesota) -- A wayward moose in the northwest is helping researchers in Minnesota. Last week, a trail camera set up near Memory Road, off Highway 61, captured a moose...
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LaDuke says fight against climate change starts at home
(5/5/2013)
(Minnesota) -- The problems facing our nation can’t be solved in Washington, D.C., said Winona LaDuke, economist, author and two-time vice presidential candidate...
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“I’m Not Your Indian Any More” 40 + Years of History
(5/5/2013)
(Minnesota) -- The American Indian Movement will open its first exhibit telling the story of its history on May 10th at the All My Relations Gallery.
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Three-for-one at Black Bear
(5/4/2013)
(Minnesota) -- Three events. Two days. One venue. The cleverly and aptly titled “Jokes, Pokes and Chokes” comedy, tattoo and wrestling convention comes...
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Actor Chaske Spenser of ‘Twilight’ fame inspires youth at Red Lake conference
(5/3/2013)
(Minnesota) -- For the finale of the eighth annual Red Lake Nation Youth Conference on Thursday, Chaske Spenser urged teens to honor their personal potential and work...
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Sale of contraband walleyes from Red Lake, Leech Lake persists
(5/2/2013)
(Minnesota) -- Now 90 years old, John Falk can still remember Red Lake Indians peddling fish to his family’s home when he was a kid.
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Online Ojibwe Dictionary Launched by University of Minnesota
(5/2/2013)
(Minnesota) -- For those interested in the Ojibwe language, they now have access to an online Ojibwe-English dictionary.
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