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There Is No San Diego River

By Bill Manson | Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2008
San Diego River? “There is no San Diego River,” says Pete Cuthbert. “What you’re dangling your toes in is the Colorado River, the Sacramento River, the Feather River - but not the San Diego River.”
“Not the San Diego River…?”

Save a language and save a culture

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 [...]

Pechanga: The Beginning of the End of Tribal Sovereignty?

“In the 21st .Century, who would have thought that the Indian Wars would begin anew?
This is not the war of racist whites who wanted to move west no matter who was hurt. This time, it’s greedy Indians who want more money, no matter which tribal members they hurt. The 21st century Indian War is now [...]

Anti-Indian sentiment persists

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.

Political tides in the sea of colonialism

By Roy Cook, redactor
President Bush meets the Pope. Pope Benedict XVI landed at Andrews Air Force Base Tuesday afternoon, welcomed by the president and his family. The Catholic cardinals and bishops on hand kissed the pope’s ring. The pope will head to the White House on Wednesday to meet with President George W. Bush. He’ll [...]

Jamul evictions were not as depicted

I struggle to find some truth in Marcia Spurgeon’s letter about March 10, 2007, and what happened in Jamul.
To begin with, Walter Rosales, Karen Toggery and her son Ayul were legally evicted. As a real estate person, I am sure that Spurgeon understands evictions. They happen every day. On Indian lands, the local enforcement agency, [...]

Bingo battle

Charity games no threat to Indian casinos
UNION-TRIBUNE EDITORIAL
March 30, 2008
The days of hearing the call “G-22,” marking your paper card and gleefully shouting “bingo” may be waning as electronic machines capable of linking players in multiple locations proliferate.

A despicable day in Jamul history

Local Letters: East Edition
March 22, 2008
We won’t forget. Brutally forced from their homes, their civil rights violated, authorities failing to enforce laws to protect them, due process ignored – another Third World country in the news?
No! This is what happened right here in Jamul, San Diego’s back yard. Shocking but true.

Our View - Native American sacred remains deserving of modern reverence

49er Staff
3/20/2008
What do Huntington Beach and Native Americans have in common?
The answer is not much, at least not on an apparent surface level. But the two have been receiving unusually high amounts of attention this month by the Daily Forty-Niner news department, and for good reason.

Law in the shadow of the Bible

by: Steven Newcomb/ Indigenous Law Institute
February 8, 2008
In February 1830, a United States congressional committee issued a report in which it drew a direct connection between the doctrine of discovery and the Old Testament of the Bible. (21st Congress, 1st session, H.R. Rep. No. 227, Feb. 24, 1830)The report was published seven years to the [...]