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Soboba tribal chairman vows to stop Riverside County deputies at reservation gate

Robert Salgado’s comments were a response to sheriff’s request to close the tribe’s casino. Sheriff’s officials fear more confrontations with tribal members.
By David Kelly, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
July 31, 2008
Despite the threat of arrest and possible closure of their casino, leaders of the Soboba Band of Luiseño Indians said Wednesday that they would continue [...]

Soboba chairman: ‘This isn’t the 1800s’

Tribe’s leader denies county sheriff’s deputies can enter reservation at will; sheriff disagrees
City News Service • July 31, 2008
The head of the Soboba Band of Luiseño Indians on Wednesday decried claims that his security officers have been obstructing Riverside County’s sheriff deputies.
“This isn’t the 1800s when the cavalry came,” tribal Chairman Robert Salgado said.

Intertribal court moves to Rincon

New home more centrally located, officials say
By EDWARD SIFUENTES - Staff Writer
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
RINCON INDIAN RESERVATION —- The fledgling Intertribal Court of Southern California has a new home at the Rincon Indian Reservation.
The 3-year-old court deals with legal issues that arise on local American Indian reservations, such as civil disputes and land use, housing [...]

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Tribe says it will put millions into roads

Plan aims to lessen impact of resort
By Onell R. Soto, STAFF WRITER
July 29, 2008
The Pauma Indian band in North County has reached a tentative agreement to pay for $38 million in road improvements and take other steps to minimize the effects of a luxury resort it is building.
As part of its $300 million project, the [...]

11th-hour effort to save a Native tongue

As ranks of elders thin, kids are tribes’ last hope
by Dennis Wagner, The Arizona Republic
Jul. 27, 2008
HUALAPAI MOUNTAIN PARK - Several dozen children stand atop a bluff to face the morning sun as it peeks over a distant ridge.

“Nyims thava hmado we’e,” they chant, meaning “Boys greet the morning sun.” And then for girls: “Nyima [...]

Promises of casino revenue fail to pan out for state

By MICHELLE DeARMOND and JIM MILLER, The Press-Enterprise  
Just a few months ago, images of smiling children, police officers and firefighters filled TV screens and mailboxes across the state, urging voters to support major casino expansions for four Southern California tribes.

Gov. Schwarzenegger and other government officials promised that the tribes would help balance the state’s [...]

Tribe seeks restrictive liquor permit

Sycuan trying again after 1993 rejection
By James P. Sweeney, U-T SACRAMENTO BUREAU
July 26, 2008
SACRAMENTO – Reopening what promises to be a noisy debate, the Sycuan band of El Cajon has applied for a state license to serve liquor at its remote casino in the Dehesa Valley.
The tribe, which operates the only Indian casino in San [...]

New laws apply on the Rincon reservation

By SARAH GORDON - Staff Writer
Friday, July 25, 2008
At the Rincon Indian Reservation, kids hang out all night getting into fights, people shoot guns in the streets and trespassers dump furniture, oil drums and puppies —- all with relative impunity.
But that’s changing.
A new set of tribal codes that took effect July 1, along with [...]

Pala tribe opens new fire station

July 25, 2008
The Pala Band of Mission Indians is scheduled to celebrate the opening of a $9 million fire station Saturday.
The 45,000-square-foot, two-story facility, on the tribe’s reservation east of Fallbrook, includes an emergency operations center and training facility.