Credit snag at casino9/26/2008, The Press Democrat
Shrinking U.S. credit markets and slipping casino revenues are putting a crimp in River Rock Casino's plans to build a $300 million Tuscan-themed resort in Alexander Valley. River Rock, owned by the Dry Creek Pomo tribe, has shelved plans to raise $600 million for the expansion, saying it's "not practicable" to finance the entire project now.  

 

Suspect on Soboba Indian Reservation behind bars
9/26/2008, The Desert Sun
A tribal member sought for two weeks in connection with guns and ammunition found in a stolen vehicle and on the Soboba Indian Reservation was behind bars and awaiting arraignment, a sheriff's sergeant said Friday. Whitecloud Robert Trujillo, 18, was arrested Wednesday at a home in the 1800 block of Cognac Court in San Jacinto, according to sheriff's Sgt. John Salisbury. Janei Sanchez, 21, of San Jacinto also was arrested. Trujillo was booked into the Southwest Detention Center on suspicion of being a felon in possession of a firearm and possession of or selling a switchblade knife.

Applauding the Yurok-Green Diamond land deal
9/27/2008, Times Standard
We on the North Coast are lucky to have intact several American Indian tribes that for millennia have called this area their home. In much of the country, what remains of the local tribes is often dispersed beyond recognition, or are in fact transplants from other regions of the country. The Trail of Tears is the most famous example of what was a relatively common phenomenon, where the United States government saw fit to pick tribes up and move them to the most inhospitable land it could find, land that the government could be reasonably sure no white settlers would want.

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