By JEFF HORSEMAN, The Press-Enterprise

Temecula would get at least $42 million over the next two decades to cover the impact Pechanga Resort & Casino has on roads and public services, according to a draft agreement between the Pechanga tribe and the city. Read more…

Posted on March 8th, 2010 by hunwut
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By Roy Cook.

SCAIR Soaring Eagle workshop, March 2, 2010, had an outstanding response by students, mentors and parent. Great songs filled the hall and allowed SCAIR American Indian dance instructor Chuck Cadotte to focus on personal instruction in a performance segment called the Sioux Gourd Dance. He called for previous performance specialties and the various traditional categories. Chuck repeated, “We need to be prepared to dance what is called for at the pow wows and keep our positive attitude.” Read more…

Posted on March 7th, 2010 by hunwut
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Co-founded all-Native American rock group Redbone

By VARIETY STAFF

Guitarist and vocalist Lolly Vegas, co-founder of the all-Native American rock group Redbone, died March 4 in Reseda, Calif. He was 70 and had been battling cancer for several years, band spokesman Joe Ortiz told Reuters. Read more…

Posted on March 7th, 2010 by hunwut
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Jan Sears, Press-Enterprise

Michael Contreras Jr., a member of the Torres Martinez Band of Desert Cahuilla Indians, will talk about the history of the Morongo Band of Mission Indians at 7:30 p.m. March 24 at the San Bernardino County Museum. Read more…

Posted on March 7th, 2010 by hunwut
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Chelsea King Killer Suspect

The Skeletal remains of 14 year old Amber Dubois, missing over a year, have been found in a remote area of the Pala Indian Reservation, home of the Pala Casino Resort & Spaand the The Pala Band of Mission Indians. The reservation is located Pala, California, in North San Diego County. Read more…

Posted on March 7th, 2010 by hunwut
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Kevin Graman, Staff writer

USK, Wash. - For the first time in a couple generations, young people are speaking ancient words of hope for Native Americans on the brink of losing the first language of the Inland Northwest. Thanks to an innovative language acquisition program, Salish is being spoken on the Kalispel Indian Reservation in northeastern Washington, not just by a dwindling number of tribal elders but by their grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Read more…

Posted on March 7th, 2010 by hunwut
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By Staff, City News Service

One person was killed and another was injured in a two- vehicle crash near the Barona Resort & Casino Sunday, the California Highway Patrol said. Read more…

Posted on March 7th, 2010 by hunwut
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Jack D. Forbes, Professor Emeritus Native American Studies

Heretofore the history of the United States has been largely treated as the story of a process, rather than the complete history of a land “from sea to shining sea.” And this process always begins either in Europe or on the Atlantic Coast of North America. Read more…

Posted on March 5th, 2010 by hunwut
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Viejas Casino Hosts Women’s Professional Billiard Association Classic Tour Season Opener
Sixty-Four of the World’s Best Players Compete for Top Honors

SAN DIEGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Viejas Casino hosts the world’s top women billiard players at the 14th annual Women’s Professional Billiard Association (WPBA) Classic Tour March 11-14. Read more…

Posted on March 5th, 2010 by hunwut
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In 1995, a benefit album to raise funds to fight the allegedly wrongful imprisonment of convicted murderer Leonard Peltier was supposed to come out on Columbia. The record– dubbed Exiled in the Land of the Free– was to feature feature rare, live, and unreleased tracks from Beastie Boys, Rage Against the Machine, Superchunk, Mike Watt, Josh Homme, and more. (Via Billboard.) Well, the compilation never came out, and everyone moved on. Read more…

Posted on March 5th, 2010 by hunwut
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