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...incident, he said, a tribal police officer pulled over a city official on the road. But the official said he did not acknowledge the officer’s jurisdiction, and he drove away. The incident led to a high-speed automobile chase...
Allred said about three-quarters of the residents on the Nez Perce reservation are not members of the tribe, which has resulted in jurisdictional clashes between tribal and city officials...
According to Allred, tensions escalated even as Philip E. Batt, who was governor of Idaho from 1995 until 1998, asked city and tribal officials to resolve their differences before they led to bloodshed...
Some problems of Indian gaming could be solved by tying the size of a tribe's casino to the number of registered members. You could allow one slot machine or gaming table per tribe member. This would remove the financial incentive for a tribe to deny membership to legitimate tribal relatives. And it would prevent absurdities like Maryann Martin's one-woman tribe profiting from a 349-slot-machine casino. SONYA MEDWID San Mateo, Calif...
...about the U.S. Government's legal and moral responsibilities to Native Americans? If the U.S. met those long-standing obligations, we Indians would not have to depend on tribal casinos to meet our basic needs. Don't hate us Native Americans for doing what we must do to survive in a system that pushes us toward extinction. ANDREW CATT-IRON SHELL Rosebud...