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...between the Rumsey Band of Wintun Indians and its neighbors in the rural Northern California Capay Valley erupted into a bitter war of words when the tribe announced plans to double the size of its hillside gaming business. Highway 16, the narrow, serpentine road that winds past the Cache Creek Indian Bingo and Casino on its way into the tiny hamlet of Brooks, is already congested from round-the-clock traffic to the casino. In 2001, traffic to Cache Creek, with its estimated $150 million annual revenue, was up 87% from the year before, according to a California department...
...conventional belief in the "Indian savage" and the "noble white settler"; in Little Rock, Ark. The white librarian upended the movie mythology of the Old West and documented the Indian Wars of 1860-90 as less Hollywood than holocaust. The 1890 slaughter of 300 Sioux at Wounded Knee Creek, S.D., turned the grounds into a shrine and the site of a 71-day protest in 1973 that ended in the deaths of two more Indians...
...interesting pieces aren't just relegated to the confines of the museum; several worthwhile satellite shows are attracting attention on their own. Many of the funkiest exhibits are concentrated in the northeastern warehouse district, a ramshackle neighborhood of old godowns along Suzhou Creek, where artists have established a thriving colony. (Many of these warehouses will be demolished in coming months to make way for more space-efficient high-rises). Stop by the DDM Warehouse at 713 Dongda Ming Road, where the eclectic exhibits include real, albeit dead, cows and sheep inflated like giant beach balls and neatly planted rows...
...tribe in Florida. The Seminoles' multiple casinos generated $216 million in profits last year, and each tribe member collected $35,000 in casino dividends. During the same six years, the health service spent an annual average of just $470 on each of the 52,000 members of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation in Oklahoma, whose tiny casinos do little more than break even...
...chains, still trying to recover from the travel slowdown that followed Sept. 11, are experimenting with leitmotivs too. A newly opened Marriott venture in Walnut Creek, California, is a fitness freak's paradise. Renaissance ClubSport Hotel and Fitness Resort's 2.5-hectare campus offers basketball, volleyball, racquetball and squash courts, outdoor boccie courts, three swimming pools and kickboxing classes. All the guest rooms are outfitted with sets of 1-kg dumbbells, and power shakes are on the menu. And the Wild Horse itself is the product of a collaboration between the Sheraton and the Maricopas and Pimas. The $125 million...