Tribal lands’ importance endures even when members live elsewhere

Carol Berry, Today correspondent
September 01, 2009
BOULDER, Colo. – A full-fledged homecoming to tribal lands occupied for more than a century by non-Natives may seem impossible or, at best, improbable... Read more

Indian tribe signs $8bn blackjack deal

September 01, 2009
FLORIDA has signed a 20-year deal worth an estimated $US6.8 billion ($8 billion) with the native American Seminole tribe for their right to offer blackjack games at their casinos, ... Read more

N.Y. counties appeal Cayuga court win in cigarette tax case

Gale Courey Toensing
September 01, 2009
T he state’s long and unsuccessful attempts to collect cigarette taxes from sales on sovereign Indian reservation lands took another hit in July when a state appellate court ruled ... Read more

Deputies: Pact with tribe discriminates

September 01, 2009
Glacier County Sheriff's deputies called on county commissioners Monday to change a cross-deputization agreement that they contend is racially discriminatory before signing it agai... Read more

NC's Perdue open to broader Indian casino gambling

September 01, 2009
North Carolina Gov. Beverly Perdue says the state hasn't ruled out Las Vegas-style card games at a Cherokee Indian casino in the Great Smoky Mountains... Read more

5 mayors oppose Glendale casino

The Associated Press
September 01, 2009
PHOENIX (AP) – Five mayors are voicing their opposition to an Indian-run casino on a county island in Glendale... Read more

Wyoming tribe to build new hotel at casino

The Associated Press
September 01, 2009
RIVERTON, Wyo. (AP) – The Northern Arapaho Tribe is undertaking its first major expansion of its Wind River Casino at Riverton . Aug... Read more

Drug abuse in the gaming industry

William F. Current, Special to Today
September 01, 2009
T he federal government estimates that approximately three-quarters of all illicit drug users 18 and older are employed... Read more

Bones found on Warren construction site ID'd

September 01, 2009
The bones found last month during construction work near a home in Warren, Minn., have been identified by a University of North Dakota anthropologist as belonging to an American In... Read more

Pawnee Nation awarded $300,000

Staff reports
September 01, 2009
PAWNEE, Okla. – The Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma received a $300,000 federal grant award through IHS for a Health Promotion and Disease Prevention project... Read more

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