From the Detroit Free Press:
During his testimony before the House Natural Resources Committee, Kilpatrick seemed at ease, defending his city from incursions he said no one should doubt would hurt Detroit’s three casinos.
“We’re pitting Port Huron against Romulus against Detroit,” he told the committee, with his mother, Rep. Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick, looking on.
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John Low, 51, of Park Ridge, is familiar with the Mitchell, having been a curatorial assistant there a few years ago. He said he hopes to use that knowledge and his contacts in the Native American community to build on the museum’s strengths.
FLINT — Members of the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe were in Flint today inspecting land that is believed to be an Indian burial site.
Earlier this week, construction crews dug up several bones on Stone Street and Third Avenue, which officials now believe could belong to as many as five people. An anthropologist determined the bones are from Native American people and pre-date the 20th century.
“A Review of the Indian Child Welfare Act, M.C.R. 2.615, and Tribal Court Jurisdiction in Michigan Family Law Cases,” by Kathyrn Fort.
From the Michigan Child Welfare Law Journal [scroll to page 11].
The House Natural Resources Committee, led by Chairman Nick J. Rahall (D-WV), will hold a legislative hearing on the following bills:
From the Mining Gazette:
Fred Dakota, shown in this June 2006 file photo, won Saturday’s runoff election for the second seat in the Baraga district of the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community’s tribal council.
I read this just after I assign my students a project to assess the Port Huron deal….
From the Port Huron Times Herald:
The long-stalled effort to open an Indian-owned casino in Port Huron has received a major boost from Michigan’s governor, who has thrown her support behind the project.
From the Ludington Daily News:
Thursday, January 17, 2008
MANISTEE — Several members of the Little River Band of Ottawa Indians carried signs and spoke against the tribal council outside the tribe’s offices Wednesday morning.
From Crain’s Detroit Business:
Fight over casino funds limits kitty for MEDC
LANSING — A southwest Michigan American Indian tribe is withholding casino revenue destined for state economic-development operations, posing the latest twist in funding uncertainty for the Michigan Economic Development Corp.
The Ziibiwing Center of Anishinabe Culture & Lifeways will host a new changing exhibition entitled, HANTA PO – All of You Out of My Way, Dick Bancroft – A Photographic Retrospective of the American Indian Movement, 1968-2006. Dick Bancroft, a world-renowned photographer, will offer his insight into this remarkable collection of black & white and color images at the exhibit’s grand opening ceremony to be held Saturday, January 26 at 12pm.
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