SIGNONSANDIEGO NEWS SERVICES
RIVERSIDE – Two recent shootouts between law officers and several members of the Soboba Indian tribe have prompted the Riverside County Sheriff’s Deputies Association to warn the public that it considers the tribe’s casino to be unsafe, it was reported Saturday.
The 3,700-member union considers the tribal reservation to be “unstable” as a result [...]

Posted on May 31st, 2008 by hunwut
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by: Gale Courey Toensing / Indian Country Today
LOS ANGELES - When attorney Carole Goldberg was asked by a law professor at Stanford Law School in 1970 to research Public Law 280 for a book he was writing, she produced a 100-page paper.
The subject intrigued her, she told Indian Country Today.
Now, 38 years and dozens of [...]

Posted on May 30th, 2008 by hunwut
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by: Gale Courey Toensing / Indian Country Today
SAN JACINTO, Calif. - The chairman of the Soboba Band of Luiseno Indians is working with local law enforcement officials and federal agents on a plan to improve cooperation and reduce conflicts following the deaths of three tribal members in shootouts with sheriff’s deputies on the reservation in [...]

Posted on May 30th, 2008 by hunwut
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By Roy Cook
Each year we look forward with anticipation and respectful responsibility when we participate in the Memorial Day activity for the Santa Ysabel community at the Tribal cemetery. American Indian Warriors Association Honor Guard posted all our flags for an outstanding showing. This year was a bit cool and breezy but Memorial Day organizer [...]

Posted on May 30th, 2008 by hunwut
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by: Kara Briggs / Today correspondent
On the last day of the seventh annual United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, a demonstration by participants from South and Central America over the right to speak led to U.N. security guards threatening arrests.
The participants needed to talk about a World Bank plan that allows corporations to trade [...]

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Native Americans bid to reclaim what was once theirs.
By Hilary Shenfeld | Newsweek Web Exclusive
May 29, 2008 
Flames leap up 20 feet around her. White smoke curls into the air and the heat hits her face as Victoria Ranua torches Canada thistle, foxtail and reed canary grass. Ranua is a botanist on an unusual mission. She’s trying [...]

Posted on May 29th, 2008 by hunwut
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By Bruce Cole
May 29, 2008
Most of us think of human languages primarily as a means of conveying information. But dig a little deeper and you discover that a language also contains important cultural ideas and practices: the traditions, customs, stories, history and beliefs of a people.
A way of speaking is deeply tied to a [...]

Posted on May 29th, 2008 by hunwut
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By Onell R. Soto, STAFF WRITER
May 29, 2008
A small change in the way some gambling machines work at the Sycuan casino has attracted the attention of regulators who wonder whether the tribe has skirted the limits on how many slots it can offer.
At issue are bingo-based slot machines, which are counted differently than Las Vegas-style [...]

Posted on May 29th, 2008 by hunwut
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