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...gambling on Indian reservations, it's impossible to know whether that's true. But Berman has clearly done quite nicely since he began developing and managing Indian casinos more than a decade ago. Among his real estate holdings: a ranch in tony Telluride, Colo.; a house in Palm Springs, Calif.; an estate called Casa Berman Palmillia on the Mexican Riviera; a condo in Las Vegas; and a $5 million estate in Wayzata, Minn. By his account, as of September 2001, he was worth almost $69 million...
With the blessing of the BIA, these instant reservations are cropping up all over the country. The United Auburn Indian community's new reservation is in an industrial park in Roseville, Calif., just minutes from I-80, one of California's busiest highways. The heretofore landless Match-e-be-nash-she-wish Band--otherwise known as the Gun Lake Band of Potawatomi Indians--now has a reservation of 50 acres along busy U.S. 131 south of Grand Rapids, Mich. Further west, in Washington State, the BIA has set aside 56 acres along I-90 east of Seattle for the Snoqaulmie...
...early '50s the Lyttons consisted of two extended families, the Steeles and the Myerses, who were the sole occupants of a 50-acre reservation for homeless Indians north of Healdsburg, Calif. The families sometimes feuded, but they ultimately shared a common dream: they wanted to be landowners, not tenants on a reservation. In 1952 John and Dolores Myers wrote the BIA asking "to secure a patent fee or a deed to this property." The Steeles sent a similar letter: they, too, wanted the reservation land deeded to them personally...
Betto Arcos, a professional DJ with Berkeley, Calif.-based Pacifica Radio, complemented the event with Latin musical stylings...
...Government thesis on leftist movements in the post-Cold War era, focusing on Haiti. Sometimes, these priorities conflict—like this summer, when he contracted a mosquito-borne disease called dengue fever in Haiti and suffered severe headaches, chills, vomiting and muscle cramps. Erlich stayed home in Oakland, Calif. for the first two weeks of school. “It’s not treatable, so you just kind of have to grin and bear it,” he says. “It’s such a rare disease, no one knew what the hell...