Indian Country Today (Oneida, NY) articles from December 2005

Indian Country Today (Oneida, NY) archives from December 2005

N.Y. casino expansion given go-ahead by court.
December 7, 2005... Byline: Jim Adams Dec. 7--WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear a challenge to tribal gaming in New York state, effectively upholding the supremacy of the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act over an anti-gambling provision in...

Mohawk council unites on Catskill casino shift.
December 7, 2005... Byline: Jim Adams Dec. 7--ST. REGIS MOHAWK RESERVATION, N.Y. -- After another abrupt shift in Catskill casino plans, the St. Regis Mohawk Tribal Council is presenting a united front to a divided Interior Department. All three tribal...

Venezuela begins low-cost heating oil deliveries; tribes continue talks.
December 7, 2005... Byline: Brenda Norrell Dec. 7--BOSTON -- Venezuela's CITGO Petroleum Corp. began delivering low-cost heating oil to Massachusetts and New York state, while American Indians continue talks with CITGO to bring low-cost heating oil and...

House passes veterans home loan program legislation.
December 7, 2005... Dec. 7--WASHINGTON -- The U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation that includes a provision from Rep. Stephanie Herseth to increase home loan opportunities for American Indian veterans. The Department of Veterans Affairs' Native...

Tex Hall urges action after Kansas taxation ruling.
December 14, 2005... Byline: Brenda Norrell Dec. 14--WASHINGTON -- Tex Hall, chairman of the Three Affiliated Tribes, said the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling allowing Kansas to impose its motor fuel tax on non-Indian wholesalers who sell fuel to tribal gas...

Potawatomi defeated in Supreme Court.
December 14, 2005... Byline: Jim Adams Dec. 14--WASHINGTON -- Tribes have lost the first major American Indian case to come before the Roberts Supreme Court. A 7--2 decision written by Justice Clarence Thomas upheld a Kansas fuel tax that the Prairie Band...

Two New England sovereignty battles show progress.
December 14, 2005... Byline: Jim Adams Dec. 14--BOSTON -- Hard-fought legal battles are winning revived respect for tribal sovereignty in New England. Although ambiguous land settlements have eclipsed tribal rights in the region for a generation, federal...

Deadline looms for trust fund claims.
December 14, 2005... Byline: David Melmer Dec. 14--WASHINGTON -- Billions of dollars will potentially be lost if tribes do not file claims with the Department of Interior to negotiate settlements that will recoup lost revenues owed to the tribes for leases,...

New probate law will create new problems.
December 21, 2005... Byline: David Melmer Dec. 21--RAPID CITY, S.D. -- A new probate reform act designed to eliminate future fractionation of land is not an end-all and be-all: while it stops fractionation, it creates additional problems that tribes argue will...

ANALYSIS: The struggle continues on tribal sovereignty.
December 21, 2005... Dec. 21--Win or lose, you've got to fight the fight. That is the message from the federal courts in recent days. The Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation lost a big one in the U.S. Supreme Court, at least on the surface. The Aroostook Band of Micmac...

Trust fund case deadlocked.
December 21, 2005... Byline: David Melmer Dec. 21--WASHINGTON -- The House Resources Committee heard from the Department of Interior and from plaintiffs in the Cobell v. Norton case on a bill designed to settle the lengthy and expensive trust fund litigation,...

Maine tribes meet with Venezuelan representatives for low-cost heating oil.
December 21, 2005... Byline: Brenda Norrell Dec. 21--PORTLAND, Maine -- American Indian leaders from four tribes in Maine met with representatives of the Venezuelan Embassy and became the first tribes in the nation to begin working out details for the delivery...

Congress petitioned for return of Geronimo's remains.
December 28, 2005... Byline: Brenda Norrell Dec. 28--SAN CARLOS, Ariz. -- American Indians are petitioning Congress to investigate the elite Skull and Bones society at Yale University and return the remains of Chiricahua Apache warrior Geronimo to Apaches for...

American Civil Liberties Union releases documentation of spying.
December 28, 2005... Byline: Brenda Norrell Dec. 28--NEW YORK -- With the exposure that the National Security Agency spied on ordinary Americans without warrants, the American Civil Liberties Union released documents revealing spying on political and religious...

Government land purchase designed to stop fractionation.
December 28, 2005... Byline: David Melmer Dec. 28--RAPID CITY, S.D. -- The Department of the Interior has dubbed its land consolidation program a success because it reduces land fractionation and reduces the number of Individual Indian Money trust accounts....

Camp Verde Yavapai-Apache features lodging and top entertainment.
December 28, 2005... Byline: Brenda Norrell Dec. 28--CAMP VERDE, Ariz. -- It's before noon, and already there's a crowd at the bowling alley at Cliff Castle Casino in central Arizona's Verde Valley. Outside, the winter weather is perfect, with visitors...

Yavapai style.
December 28, 2005... Byline: Brenda Norrell Dec. 28--FORT MCDOWELL YAVAPAI NATION, Ariz. -- In the sleek Anhala Restaurant of the new Radisson Fort McDowell Resort, one finds the marriage of Southwest cuisine, Native foodways and American favorites. But...

Gila River's Wild Horse Pass opens Rawhide.
December 28, 2005... Byline: Brenda Norrell Dec. 28--GILA RIVER INDIAN COMMUNITY, Ariz. -- Navigating the tourist boat on the waterway at the Sheraton Wild Horse Pass Resort, Pima tribal member Earl Laws is as good a listener as he is a storyteller. "I...