Mashpee Wampanoag, Massachusetts Signed New Improved Gaming Compact

Gale Courey Toensing
March 23, 2013
Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe Chairman Cedric Cromwell and Massachusetts Gov...

Interior: Mashpee Trust Land Decision on Track for Early 2013

Gale Courey Toensing
January 14, 2013
The Department of the Interior plans to complete the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe’s application for trust land for gaming in January...

Sen. Jim DeMint Resigns to Head Heritage Foundation on Heels of Its Anti-Carcieri Brief

Gale Courey Toensing
December 07, 2012
Legislators who have been working hard for almost four years to pass an amendment to restore Indian homelands will not likely regret the departure of a senator who would almost cer...

Experts Urge Congressional Carcieri Fix—Again

Gale Courey Toensing
September 18, 2012
John Echohawk More than a dozen lawsuits are clogging federal and state courts in what Native American Rights Fund (NARF) Executive Director John Echohawk called “a judicially-crea...
David Wilkins

Federal Assumptions That Enfeeble Native America

Native American people and the distinctive nations they belong to exist in a paradoxical world. They are the original nations of North America, a fact that is enshrined in the U.S....

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July 18, 2012

Attack of the Indian-Gaming Fighter, and How the Blowback Against Tribal Gaming Has Evolved

Rob Capriccioso
April 04, 2012
From “not in my backyard” complaints to state and federal politics to flat-out racism, there are plenty of reasons why opponents of Indian gaming are waging war...

Part 3: The Dawes Act Started the U.S. Land-Grab of Indian Territory

Gale Courey Toensing
February 15, 2012
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...

2011: Leaders Place New Emphasis on Indian Perspective

Gale Courey Toensing
December 31, 2011
The National Congress of American Indians (NCAI), the National Indian Gaming Association (NIGA), and the United South and Eastern Tribes (USET) all shared the same overlapping conc...

Not a Good Year for Indian Country in the Courts or Congress

Gale Courey Toensing
December 25, 2011
The year 2011 provided few bright spots in the courts or Congress for Indian nations. The year began inauspiciously in January with a ruling from the U.S...
Bill Lomax

Job Creators Paralyzed by Supreme Court’s Carcieri Decision

In the Carcieri v. Salazar decision, the Supreme Court stood 75 years of policy and practice on its head....

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December 14, 2011

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