INDIAN COMMUNITY APPROVES NEW HEIGHTS FOR BUILDINGS
Voters of the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community overwhelmingly approved an initiative this week to increase reservation building heights. Of the 755 community members who voted Monday, 64 percent approved a change that will allow the construction of an up-to-15-story casino hotel to replace the temporary buildings for Casino Arizona at Talking Stick, northeast of Indian Bend Road and Loop 101.But the measure does more than that. It also increases building height maximums along Loop...
Proposed school draws opposition in Franklin,
Comments stun Indian Community School official
A proposal by the Indian Community School of Milwaukee to build a new school in Franklin drew a hostile reception from several residents at a public hearing before the Plan Commission Thursday. About 150 people attended the hearing on a proposed zoning change, many raising concerns about traffic, noise, taxes and reverse discrimination, and demanding the school show how it will benefit Franklin residents."Only three students from Franklin attend this school," said...
Indian Community: Prairie Island Tribal Council Tours Proposed Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository,
Minnesota Tribe Learns Yucca Mountain Project Status Firsthand
PRNewswire -- The Prairie Island Indian Community Tribal Council today toured the proposed national nuclear waste repository at Nevada's Yucca Mountain to learn about the project's current status. As one of the closest communities in the country to a temporary nuclear waste storage site, Prairie Island wants the federal government to make good on its commitment to move the nuclear waste to a safe facility."Storing the nation's nuclear waste in a...
GILA RIVER GOVERNOR PRAISES INDIAN COMMUNITY PROGRESS
Richard P. Narcia is governor of the Gila River Indian Community, a 600-square-mile sovereign nation that borders Chandler, Ahwatukee Foothills and Gilbert. Narcia oversees a yearly operating budget of more than $100 million, which funds about 80 programs for the tribe's 17,000 enrolled members, made of two tribes, the Akimel O'odham (Pima) and Pee Posh (Maricopa). The Akimel O'odham, whose name means "People of the River,"...
Indian Community: GIVING BACK TO THE COMMUNITY
Women and children living in the American Indian Community Housing Organization's apartments will no longer have blankets or sheets hanging on windows. Soon they'll have new navy blue curtains in the five units.Center City Housing will assemble 100 house-warming kits with toiletry items for homeless people moving into its transitional and low-income housing. And 100 children and young adults are getting free tetanus shots at the Duluth Community Health Center....