by: Victor Morales
May 12, 2008
CAMPO, Calif. - Challenges to a tribal election here could cancel out an all-female leadership that was elected in April.
The disputed election is delaying the resolution of pressing issues such as the tribal economy, which has been negatively affected by the nationwide economic downturn. Read more…
Posted on May 12th, 2008 by hunwut
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Saturday, May 17th
12:00PM-6:00PM
Come and see educational presentations and learn how each of us can help preserve the environment.
Festival and Peon Tournament
Live Music All Day!
Fun, Food and Games!
More info: 619478-2113 or lpepa@lptribe.net
Posted on May 12th, 2008 by hunwut
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by: Editor’s Report / Indian Country Today
May 09, 2008
What distinguishes American Indian communities from nation-states are different values, cultural understandings and goals. In the United States, American Indian nations have different cultural understandings on a variety of significant levels: creation teachings, understandings of political community, political processes, stewardship of the land and relations with the natural world. These cultural and value differences between Indian nations and the U.S. government underscore significant disagreements about and the absence of shared rules and understandings of culture, land and social and political philosophy. Read more…
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Riverside County sheriff’s deputies were patrolling the reservation when someone began shooting at them with assault rifles just after midnight, said Investigator Jerry Franchville. Read more…
Posted on May 9th, 2008 by hunwut
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A San Diego federal judge’s order last week could lead to “an uncontrolled, if not chaotic” expansion of slot machines, lawyers for Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said as part of an appeal filed yesterday. Read more…
Posted on May 9th, 2008 by hunwut
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Tim O’Leary, Special to the Village News
Thursday, May 8th, 2008.
Issue 19, Volume 12.
A court challenge filed by an Anza-based Indian tribe has reignited one of Southern California’s longest-running water-rights disputes, an action that could tighten supplies in a vast area that takes in Camp Pendleton, Fallbrook, Murrieta, Lake Elsinore, Temecula, and its satellite horse and wine country communities.
The challenge – which surfaced recently when residents and public agencies began receiving litigation notices – has toppled the most recent truce, a six-year lull in a long fight over where and how to tap the 749-square-mile watershed of Southern California’s last free-flowing river. Read more…
Posted on May 8th, 2008 by Larry Banegas
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Action in response to locals’ concerns
May 8, 2008
The Pauma Indian band has scaled back plans for its $300 million resort hotel, cutting its tower from 23 stories to 19, trimming the size of the gambling floor and eliminating an outdoor amphitheater. Read more…
Posted on May 8th, 2008 by hunwut
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Youth fair shows validity of Native language in Oklahoma
by: Brian Daffron / Today correspondent
May 07, 2008
NORMAN, Okla. - Rare are the opportunities to hear young Native people speak and sing in their traditional languages in Oklahoma. But when these Native students in grades pre-K through 12 can come under one roof, speaking and singing in languages as diverse as Creek, Choctaw, Kiowa, Cherokee, Comanche, Otoe or Apache, it is a wonderful experience for all involved. Read more…
Posted on May 7th, 2008 by hunwut
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By CINDY MARTINEZ RHODES, The Press-Enterprise
SAN MANUEL INDIAN RESERVATION - In an instant, Pauline Murillo’s storytelling transports her audience to a time when the rich, brown earth was carried between the toes of Indian children, not by cranes or bulldozers.
As she sits in her gazebo, overlooking the San Manuel Indian Bingo and Casino, Murillo, 73, has the poise, grace — and hearty laugh — of a woman who knows where she came from and still enjoys the journey. Read more…
Posted on May 5th, 2008 by hunwut
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by: Steven Newcomb / Indigenous Law Institute
May 02, 2008
In October 2007, a letter appeared in The Wall Street Journal titled, “Tribal ‘Nations’ Within U.S. Aren’t Justified.” The letter exemplifies an anti-Indian nationhood sentiment still prevalent in the United States. Read more…
Posted on May 2nd, 2008 by hunwut
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