By JAMIE AYALA, The Press-Enterprise
Alphabet cards for the Luiseño language line the wall behind Elaine Ohayon, an assessment teacher, in the classroom for 3-year-olds at the Soboba Tribal Preschool in San Jacinto.
Silvia Flores / The Press-Enterprise
To the faint tune of the children’s song “Are You Sleeping?” Soboba tribal preschoolers count their fingers in their native [...]

Posted on April 28th, 2007 by admin
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Barona Cultural Center & Museum
The Barona Cultural Center & Museum will showcase the intimate photographic works of Tribal Member Mandy Curo beginning April 19, 2007.
The exhibit will offer a unique glimpse of the Barona Indian Reservation as Mandy remembers it from her childhood as well as showcase breathtaking images of landscapes throughout the United States.
A [...]

Posted on April 25th, 2007 by admin
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By Peter Andersen
The people claiming to be the tribal leadership of the Jamul Indian Village want the world to think that a new casino in rural Jamul is a forgone conclusion. It is not.
The casino’s backer – Lakes Entertainment, a publicly traded, out-of-state company bankrolling the project – continues to ignore serious obstacles in the [...]

Posted on April 22nd, 2007 by admin
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By: North County Times
The Environmental Protection Agency announced Monday that a group of people, including two Pala tribal officials, working on a project to improve drinking water have received environmental awards.
Paula Stigler and Lenore Volturno of the Pala Band of Mission Indians and officials from the Native Cultures Institute of Baja California, Aqualink Water System [...]

Posted on April 16th, 2007 by admin
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By Onell R. Soto, UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
San Diego County’s 10th Indian casino opened last night with a private party for more than 1,000 people.
“This is your casino,” Brandie Taylor, the Santa Ysabel tribe’s vice chairwoman, proclaimed to tribal members in the crowd. “This is your future.”
The crowd, standing shoulder to shoulder amid silent slot machines, [...]

Posted on April 12th, 2007 by admin
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By James P. Sweeney, COPLEY NEWS SERVICE
Opponents of an expansive new gambling agreement for the Sycuan band welcomed a prominent new ally yesterday when San Diego County Supervisor Dianne Jacob joined the fight with a letter urging the state to rework the deal.
Jacob, who represents the rural Dehesa Valley where Sycuan’s reservation is located, weighed [...]

Posted on April 12th, 2007 by admin
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San Diego Union-Tribune Letters to the Editor
A recent letter writer, Victoria Lea, should have done research first.
As we were taught by our family elders, the personal belongings of our recently deceased are burned by our homes in their memory. We do that to keep them sacred and safe as they enter the spirit world.
The letter-writer [...]

Posted on April 12th, 2007 by admin
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By: EDWARD SIFUENTES - Staff Writer
It’s not the biggest and it’s not the closest, but the Santa Ysabel Resort and Casino, which opens to the public today, has an enviable view of Lake Henshaw and the surrounding mountains.
Tribal leaders said Wednesday they hope the scenic beauty of the remote, northeastern part of the county will [...]

Posted on April 11th, 2007 by admin
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By Onell R. Soto, STAFF WRITER
The Santa Ysabel Resort & Casino will offer 349 slot machines. The casino, with Lake Henshaw in the background, will open to the public Thursday.
EDUARDO CONTRERAS / Union-Tribune
Hope for one of the area’s largest, yet poorest, Indian tribes is perched on a ridge overlooking Lake Henshaw.
A casino, the county’s 10th, [...]

Posted on April 7th, 2007 by admin
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San Diego Union-Tribune Letters to the Editor
I have been following with great interest the ongoing saga concerning the Jamul Indian Tribe and its efforts to open a casino.
First, I’d like to state that I’m ashamed as an American Indian for the way Walter Rosales and Karen Toggery have been treated by their own people. It [...]

Posted on April 5th, 2007 by admin
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