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Pokagon Chairman Wesaw Wins National Award
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Michigan Indian
Native American Business Institute Announcement (Summer 2012 Program)
Greetings from the Multicultural Business Programs Native American Business Institute (NABI)! We invite you to learn more about our pre-college program for Native American high school students (current 10th & 11th graders) interested in learning more about college and business.
The Native American Business Institute is a weeklong pre-college summer program for sophomore and junior Native American high school students interested in learning about college and careers in business free of cost. Participants work with MSU admissions officers, college counselors, tribal community leaders, and corporate representatives in a seven-day “business boot-camp” that prepares students for the college application process and exposes them to numerous academic and professional opportunities.
NABI students:
• Develop Time Management & Study skills
• Receive tips & strategies for gaining admission to college
• Learn how to navigate the financial aid/scholarship jungle
• Form lifelong friendships with other Native youth, MSU students, & MSU support staff
• Strengthen communication and interpersonal skills
• Attend corporate, cultural, and leadership development workshops
• Cultivate a deeper appreciation and understanding of diversity and its importance
• Foster networks with business leaders and other professionals
• Expose students to various careers and opportunities in business
• Most importantly—they learn how to WORK HARD & PLAY HARD!
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HuffPo: Tribes Confront Abramoff
Here.
An excerpt:
Another tribe targeted by Abramoff and Scanlon was the Saginaw Chippewa of Michigan. When the Chippewa tribal council was reluctant to offer a big lobbying contract to the two men in 2001, they poured money into tribal elections to elect a slate of tribal leaders who would approve a $150,000-per-month deal. (The previous lobbyist for the tribe had made $10,000 per month.) The new council would also approve a bloated contract with Scanlon’s consulting firm, which again split the profits with Abramoff.
Monica Lubiarz-Quigley, a lawyer who once represented the Chippewas, said she was pushed out of her job after she raised questions about the high-priced contracts that tribal leaders were signing. She views the reemergence of Abramoff as a voice of reform with skepticism.
“It’s business as usual in Washington,” Lubiarz-Quigley said. “Certainly the tribes and what happened to the tribes seems to be like an ‘Oh, well,’ and it doesn’t surprise me. … That’s how the insiders in Washington see it. They’re not terribly concerned with what happened to the tribes. And that’s how they got away with it in the first place.”
FREEP Article on Proposal for 22 More Michigan Casinos
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IPR on the Decolonizing Diet Project
Here:
You’ve heard of the 100 mile diet? Eating only food produced within 100 miles of your house. Martin Reinhardt plans to eat only what would have been available 300 years ago around the Great Lakes region. Reinhardt is a member of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa who teaches at Northern Michigan University. He’s leading the Decolonizing Diet Project. That’s on Points North Friday morning between 9-10 a.m. with a rebroadcast in the evening at 9:00.
Supreme Court Denies Michigan’s Asian Carp Cert Petition
Here is today’s order list.
And a news article already on it, from How Appealing.
Lansing Casino Proposal Investors Named
Here, via Pechanga.
From the article:
Early on in the meeting, Lansing City Council President Brian Jeffries asked City Attorney Brig Smith for more information regarding the investors in Lansing Future LLC, the developer contracted by the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians to finance the casino.
“I have an issue in terms of knowing who the developer is,” Jeffries said.
Smith then introduced Bill Martines, managing director of Lansing Future LLC, who assured the committee that his group wasn’t intentionally trying to cloak itself in secrecy, and listed every investor in Lansing Future.
Besides Martines, president of All Day Interactive, the other investors in the group are Jerry Campbell, CEO of HomeBancorp; Robert Liggett, Jr., owner of the Big Boy Restaurant chain; John Krasula of Decision Consultants; Winfield Cooper, a Flint-based commercial mortgage broker; Mike Garavaglia, a special counsel to Mortgage Investors Corp., and The Sovereignty Group, comprised of Lansing-based lawyer Richard McLellan and Bill Cross Jr.
McLellan joined The Sovereignty Group two weeks ago, after telling media he was not involved in Lansing Future or the casino project. He was not involved in the group until after he made the comments, he said.
WLNS: Gov. Snyder/AG Schuette Opposes Lansing Casino Proposal
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And here’s the letter:
An excerpt:
Governor Rick Snyder and Attorney General Bill Schuette put their opposition of the proposed Lansing casino in writing Monday. Their letter was addressed to the chairman of the Sault Saint Marie tribe of Chippewa Indians.
For the casino to even become a reality in the first place it needs to be approved by the federal government. The tribe has to ask the U.S. Department of Interior to take the land into trust and make it tribal land, then it would be eligible for gaming.
One issue facing the proposal to build a casino in Lansing is the fact that there are already 3 off-reservation casinos in the state.
The final decision would come from the federal government, but one expert says the opposition from state leaders could make this all a bit more difficult.
“The governor role I think can potentially be huge in that politics is everything when it comes to off reservation gaming,” said Matthew Fletcher, director of the Indigenous Law and Policy Center at MSU.
The letter made public from the governor and attorney general to the Sault St. Marie Chippewa Indian tribe has Fletcher a bit surprised.
“That’s pretty tough…tough talk,” said Fletcher.
In the letter it flatly says they oppose the opening of the casino.
“If this was a different world and the Governor supported this, it would put pressure on the Department of Interior to act quicker. It would make the other tribes back down,” said Fletcher.
Fletcher says the Department of Interior will listen closely to what the governor has to say and his opposition could cause a great delay in moving forward.
“This is a chunk of land that is right in the heart of the state’s capital and certainly the state is going to have say in what happens when that land completely leaves the state’s jurisdiction,” said Fletcher.
Little River Band Job Announcement: Legislative Counsel
Position: Chief Legislative Counsel, Legislative Legal Department (Chief Legislative Counsel).
(Full Time – Contractual)
Summary: The Chief Legislative Counsel shall be responsible for providing consideration to and service concerning legislative matters brought before the Tribal Council or Legislative Branch. As Administrator of the Department, Counsel will coordinate the efforts necessary for the preparation of legislative measures, written opinions, research, and competent representation of the Tribe.
GTB Helping Suttons Bay Schools (They’re in Acute Financial Stress)
Here is the GTB’s 2 percent press release:
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