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Owner of Maverick Gaming, Eric Perssons, was in an interview with Fox News at one of the 31 casinos he owns across the West called Great American Casino in Tukwila, Washington. Persson was wearing a baseball cap with his company’s logo on it.
“There’s zero circumstances in which I’d settle,” Perssons said resolutely. “There’s zero circumstances in which I’d quit. I have the resources to go all the way, and so do they. So there’s going to be a battle. We’re going to have a lot of fun, and I’m going to win.”
In Washington, card rooms attached to bars and restaurants are legal. At one point there were over 200 card rooms but that number has dropped significantly.
“We’ve seen as it’s been reducing, it’s been consolidating and turning more into a casino business than a mom and pop restaurant with a game to play to help increase the sale of cheeseburgers and beer,” said Christine Masse, an attorney at Miller Nash LLC during a panel at the 2023 Indian Gaming Association Convention and Tradeshow in San Diego, California. READ MORE. — Pauly Denetclaw, ICT
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The rare portrait of Lakota leader Sitting Bull (1831-1890) that was up for sale at Blackwell Auctions sold for $67,100 on March 18 to a private purchaser from the northeastern United States.
The portrait was one of four paintings of Sitting Bull created by New York artist and activist Caroline Weldon, and is thought to be the only one that was still in private hands.
Stored for decades and needing repair, the solemn portrait of the charismatic Lakota leader was consigned to auction by heirs of the original owner from 1890. The artist’s friendship with Sitting Bull was made into a 2017 film, “Woman Walks Ahead.” READ MORE. — Sandra Hale Schulman, Special to ICT
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The latest: A Native artist’s 50-year career gets a long-overdue exhibition in a Manhattan museum, a new film examines the fight against racist mascots, and Cherokee ‘voices’ return to television. READ MORE. — Sandra Hale Schulman, Special to ICT
The Catholic Church has credited “dialogue with Indigenous peoples” in repudiating the Doctrine of Discovery.
In a joint statement from the Dicastery for Culture and Dicastery for Integral Human Development the Vatican formally rejected “those concepts that fail to recognize the inherent human right of Indigenous Peoples, including what has become known as the legal and political “doctrine of discovery.”
The doctrine has been used as religious and spiritual justification to subjugate Indigenous peoples and dispossess them of land. READ MORE. — Miles Morrisseau, ICT
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On the Monday edition of the ICT Newscast, an educational and environmental activist tells us about the speech she delivered at the United Nations. Hip-hop artist Mic Jordan takes on Phoenix. ICT is in Las Vegas this week to cover the 2023 RES conference with the National Center for American Indian Enterprise Development.
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Veteran journalist and ICT’s Editor-at-large Mark Trahant, Shoshone-Bannock, is now a hall of famer.
Trahant is among the 2023 National Native American Hall of Fame class. He is one of six to be named and will be inducted in the fall.
The group has made contributions in law, journalism, advocacy, writing and entertainment. Others include former Quinault Indian Nation President Joe DeLaCruz, actor Will Sampson, Muscogee Creek, novelist and poet Leslie Marmon Silko, Laguna Pueblo, American Indian Lawyer Training program founder Richard Trudell, Santee Dakota and Native rights advocate LaNada Means War Jack, Shoshone-Bannock. READ MORE. — ICT
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- Indigenous participation vital to successful Arctic decision-making: ‘Nothing about us without us.’
- Tribes have role in Oklahoma drone technology: Choctaw, Cherokee and Osage are involved.
- Panel exploring state seal ready to resume work: There have been efforts to change the Massachusetts seal for decades.
- Protecting Indigenous women and girls: ‘Every single Alaskan, and I’ll just add, every single Indigenous person in this state has the right to be safe in their home and free from violence. And that is not the case.’
- Sk’aliCh’elh-tenaut to return home after decades of captivity: The Dolphin Company and Friends of Lolita announced a formal agreement and promise to return the orca from Florida to her home waters in the Salish Sea.
- The Forgotten History of Tsianina Redfeather, the Beloved American Indian Opera Singer.
- President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to Provide $16 Million for Co-Stewardship and Salmon Conservation.
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