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

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

Indian Country Today, Oneida, N.Y., Indian gaming column.
January 12, 2005... Byline: Jim Adams Jan. 12--MASHANTUCKET, Conn. -- CASINO LEAPFROG HEATS UP FOR PEQUOTS: Competition between two of the richest casino-owning tribes in the country is heating up, as they both brace for new entries in their lucrative...

Tribal college students benefit from foundation's $373,000 grant.
January 12, 2005... Jan. 12--DENVER -- The American Indian College Fund will use a $373,000 grant from Lumina Foundation for Education to create a fund that will help American Indian students achieve academic success. The American Indian College Fund's Angel...

Supreme Court refuses jurisdiction case regarding South Dakota tribal land.
January 12, 2005... Byline: David Melmer Jan. 12--PIERRE, S.D. -- The U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear a case that could define or alter jurisdiction by off-reservation law enforcement officers while on tribal land. The state of South Dakota appealed to...

American Indian relief team to head to tsunami disaster.
January 12, 2005... Byline: Brenda Norrell Jan. 12--ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- A team of American Indian physicians, educators and emergency professionals are readying to provide relief to victims of the Asian tsunami disaster. In the Native tradition of reaching...

Navajo Nation pass New Mexico water rights settlement.
January 12, 2005... Byline: Brenda Norrell Jan. 12--WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. -- The Navajo Nation Council passed a New Mexico water rights settlement and agreed to give up 44 percent of its water rights claims to the San Juan River Basin. LaVern Wagner,...

Tribe member, author seen as a moderate radical.
January 12, 2005... Byline: James May Jan. 12--SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Vine Deloria Jr. is a man to whom problems are considered challenges. In fact, he has made it his life's work to tackle difficult subjects -- the more complex or problematic the better....

Writer, award-winner inspired and provoked a generation.
January 12, 2005... Byline: Jim Adams Jan. 12--TUCSON, Ariz. -- Vine Deloria Jr., writer, teacher and social critic, will receive the second annual American Indian Visionary Award March 2 at 6:00 p.m. in a celebration at the National Press Club in Washington,...

Tribes want state out of cultural resource decisions in South Dakota.
January 12, 2005... Byline: David Melmer Jan. 12--RAPID CITY, S.D. -- The Missouri River experiences huge fluctuations in water levels and with six earthen dams that also rise and fall on cue from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, many artifacts, human...

Land issues stir emotions in Oneida, N.Y., area.
January 12, 2005... Byline: David Melmer Jan. 12--The State-Tribal Relations Committee will have some new faces, which means more education by the tribal leaders of the state and in some respects a return to the drawing board. Lower Brule Chairman Michael...

Chukchansi casino contracts with Mashantucket Pequots.
January 19, 2005... Byline: Jim Adams Jan. 19--MASHANTUCKET, Conn. -- Reaching across the continent, the Picayune Rancheria of Chukchansi Indians in California has approved a consulting agreement with an enterprise of the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation to...

Navajo is named head of Arizona Commission of Indian Affairs.
January 19, 2005... Byline: Brenda Norrell Jan. 19--PHOENIX -- When Jack Jackson Jr. realized his efforts as Arizona State Representative were being dissipated in a conservative, Republican-dominated Arizona state legislature, he took the bold step of leaving...

Sherrill hearing fails to answer why Supreme Court took case.
January 19, 2005... Byline: Jim Adams Jan. 19--WASHINGTON -- After watching an hour of give and take with the Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court, close observers of the City of Sherrill, New York v. Oneida Indian Nation of New York case still weren't sure why...

Tribes raise money for tsunami disaster relief.
January 19, 2005... Byline: James May Jan. 19--SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- As most people already know, the day after Christmas a massive earthquake in the eastern Indian Ocean off of the island of Sumatra launched a devastating series of tidal waves or tsunamis....

Tribes cool tensions with California over video lottery terminals.
January 19, 2005... Byline: James May Jan. 19--SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Two tribes that had faced a looming battle with the state over video lottery machines have decided to comply with the state, at least temporarily, by abolishing and/or changing the contested...

Navajo declares weather emergency.
January 19, 2005... Byline: Brenda Norrell Jan. 19--WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. -- Snow storms and unpaved roads created dangerous situations for isolated Navajos, leading Navajo Nation President Joe Shirley Jr. to declare a weather-related state of emergency on the...

Mashantucket Pequot swearing-in witnesses female gains on tribal council.
January 19, 2005... Byline: Jim Adams Jan. 19--MASHANTUCKET, Conn. -- Shifting the spotlight to community life and away from the ever-looming casino, the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation swore in a new tribal council Jan. 3 with familiar faces at the top but...

Harvard study shows dramatic gains for tribes from gaming ventures.
January 19, 2005... Byline: Jim Adams Jan. 19--CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Basically, sovereignty works. That is the overall message of a major new survey from the Harvard American Indian Project, which compared data from the 1990 and 2000 Census and found...

EDITORIAL: Oneida case heard at Supreme Court.
January 19, 2005... Jan. 19--Once again last week, a major case before the U.S. Supreme Court, City of Sherrill, New York v. Oneida Indian Nation of New York, on the nature and status of Indian sovereign lands, caused intense speculation and anticipation among...

Investigation targets off-track betting books.
January 26, 2005... Byline: Jim Adams Jan. 26--NEW YORK -- Federal agents are probing an arcane but potentially profitable side business of tribal casinos as an offshoot of a major scandal rocking thoroughbred horse racing. The business, offering rebates...

Massachusetts looks at gaming.
January 26, 2005... Byline: Jim Adams Jan. 26--BOSTON -- Mohegan Tribal Chairman Mark Brown told Indian Country Today that the tribe was looking to national diversification because of the nearly inevitable prospect of increased competition in southern New...

Gold mine exploration begins on Western Shoshone lands.
January 26, 2005... Byline: Brenda Norrell Jan. 26--ELKO, Nev. -- Western Shoshone predicted that once the Bureau of Land Management seized and removed the horses of Carrie and Mary Dann, that new gold mining explorations would begin, poisoning their...

Law enforcement crisis remains.
January 26, 2005... Byline: David Melmer Jan. 26--RAPID CITY, S.D. -- There is a crisis in law enforcement and tribal judicial systems in Indian country and nobody is denying that fact. More funding will help the problem. More officers, judges, clerks...

Missouri River looms as major problem.
January 26, 2005... Byline: David Melmer Jan. 26--BISMARCK, N.D. -- Drought conditions in the Northern Plains and some Rocky Mountain regions pose serious problems for recreation and navigation from the upper to the lower Missouri River Basin. Six years...

Indian Country Today, Oneida, N.Y., News from the Southwest column.
January 26, 2005... Byline: Brenda Norrell Jan. 26--UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO GAINS NATIVE AMERICAN STUDIES DEGREE: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- The University of New Mexico Board of Regents approved a new bachelor's degree in Native American Studies, following years...

Arizona tribes oppose English as official language.
January 26, 2005... Byline: Brenda Norrell Jan. 26--PHOENIX -- Arizona Indian tribal leaders opposed new legislation that would make English the official state language, as they struggled for solutions to meet the needs of economic development and housing,...

Treaties need to be honored.
January 26, 2005... Byline: David Melmer Jan. 26--RAPID CITY, S.D. -- As the federal government grants more power to the states through various programs and the dispensation of funding to tribes that have treaties, the Great Sioux Nation Treaty Council said...

Tribes protest wastewater snow on sacred mountain.
January 26, 2005... Byline: Brenda Norrell Jan. 26--FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. -- American Indians and local residents protested a plan to make snow from wastewater at a ski resort near the Grand Canyon. Skiers and snowboarders were told that San Francisco Peaks are...