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Lawless Lands: The Crisis in Indian Country
"This four-part series uncovers the systemic failure of the federal judicial system to investigate and prosecute serious crime on America's Indian reservations and charts the cost of that failure to indigenous communities. The series presents the first detailed picture of the gap between reported crime, criminal investigation, and felony prosecution on American Indian lands under federal jurisdiction."
Tags: crime; Native Americans; federal government; Indian Affairs
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A Place Where Children Die
The investigation found that children on the Warm Springs Reservation in central Oregon die at a rate more than three times that for Oregon and nearly twice for Native Americans nationwide. Many of the deaths of 58 children since 1990 occurred because tribal leaders have not pursued basic steps proven to reduce mortality rates on reservations. Some causes for the deaths are due to a lack of seatbelt laws, scaling back of sobriety checkpoints, and failures in the child welfare system.
Tags: Warm Springs Reservation; Oregon reservation; Native American; child mortality; traffic accidents; child welfare system; alcohol; tribal leaders; child safety; sobriety checkpoints; seat-belt law; Warm Springs Early Childhood Education programs; Indian communities; Indian Health Service; tribal Children's Protective Services; Warm Springs Fire and Safety; Boys and Girls Club; Warm Springs Elementary; The Rainbow Market; Oregon Liquor Control Commission; substance abuse programs; tribal budget; Portland's Rose Garden sports arena
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Native American Casino Impact: Ongoing Questions for Brownsville Borough
These stories look at various aspects of Native American gaming. Specifically, the reporter chose to focus on how Foxwoods casino in Connecticut affected that community. The reporter drew parallels to Brownsville, PA to show how a potential Indian casino would affect her own town. She looks at property values, small- business owners and taxes.
Tags: Bureau of Indian Affairs; United Property Owners; gambling; gaming; Native Americans; tourism; sales tax
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The Last Indian Fighter; Slade Gorton is American Indians' Public Enemy No. 1
Former Senator Slade Gorton (R-WA), who supported natural resource industries such as timber and mining companies, was frequently at odds with the Native American community. This article is a good first step to learning more about Gorton's positions and issues facing Native Americans.
Tags: Department of the Interior; National Congress of American Indians; Boldt decision; fishing rights; salmon; Non-indian negotiating group; Endangered Species Act; ESA; timber; oil; gas; mining; campaign contributions; lobbying; Citizen's Equal Rights Alliance; CERA; Wise Use; Lummi tribe; casinos; treaties
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Reservation Crime is Out of Control
The Argus Leader reports on the increasing crime rates on several South Dakota Indian reservations, rates that "surpasses crime in some of America's major metropolitan cities." Officials believe most of the crime is due to alcohol abuse. "In 1998, Pine Ridge authorities made 9,000 arrests for public drunkenness-roughly one for every five residents and made another 780 arrests for drunken driving. . .Tribal, state and federal officials stress that two other key factors contribute to crime: Extraordinarily high unemployment rates . . . and huge numbers of people living in poverty." Reporter Lee Williams examines these issues along with how local police officers and the community are trying to stop it.
Tags: crime; Indians; reservations; Bureau of Indian Affairs; police; FBI; Bureau of Alcohol; Tobacco and Firearms; South Dakota Division of Criminal Investigation; Federal Bureau of Prisons; gangs
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A People in Peril: Pimas on the front lines of an epidemic
The Arizona Republic reports a "three-day series examined the epidemic of diabetes in the Gila River Indian Community south of Phoenix and how the effects of the disease had become substantially worse despite more than three decades of research into the problem..."
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Crazy Horse memorial project: "When the legends die, the dreams end..."
Indian Country Today examines the Crazy Horse Memorial Project in a five-part series. The investigation found that many members of the Indian community find the project to be a desecration of sacred ground and question the financial motives of the family of sculptor Korczak Ziolkowski.
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CNN (Atlanta, GA) examines the explosive growth of gambling-from modern riverboat gambling to casinos on Indian reservations--and raises questions about the impact of gambling on public officials, the poor, compulsive gamblers, and small communities that are hungry for jobs, March 27, 1994.
Tags: GA Connor Sesno Hill Camp Jackson Native Americans Tape Script
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Navajo Times (Window Rock, Navajo Nation, Ariz.) reveals how Native Americans were the first and most used group for experiments by the federal government with radiation; countless Indian communities have documented severe abuses by the experimentors, Jan. 13, 1994.
Tags: AZ Taliman Department of Defense Uranium Nevada Test Site 2 pages
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Boston Magazine investigates the results of an Indian tribe's ownership of the most successful casino in the U.S.; finds that though it has brought new riches, it has also brought internal strife, the animosity of neighboring communities, problems with over-development and intense tackiness, April 1994.
Tags: MA Rodrick Gambling Reservation Mashantucket Pequot 9 pages