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	<title>Arizona Capitol Times &#187; Native Americans</title>
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		<title>Intense legal fight over proposed Glendale casino moves to 9th Circuit</title>
		<link>http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2012/04/16/intense-legal-fight-over-proposed-glendale-casino-moves-to-9th-circuit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 00:41:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Grado</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The fight over whether a Southern Arizona tribe can build a massive casino near Glendale’s entertainment district moved to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Monday.

The city is contesting a trial court’s decision to uphold the Department of Interior’s decision to create reservation land out of 54 acres of unincorporated land near 95th and Northern avenues. The Tohono O’odham tribe wants to turn the parcel into reservation land under the Gila Bend Indian Reservation Lands Replacement Act, a 1986 federal law that allowed the tribe to replace nearly 10,000 acres of land that was destroyed by flooding from the federally-built Painted Rock Dam.]]></description>
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		<title>Feds, tribal officials call for efforts to settle, not sue over, water rights</title>
		<link>http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2012/03/16/feds-tribal-officials-call-for-efforts-to-settle-not-sue-over-water-rights/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2012 15:59:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Victoria Pelham, Cronkite News Service</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Federal, tribal and legal officials agreed Thursday that all sides would be better off if they worked to settle water-rights claims rather than continuing to litigate them.]]></description>
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		<title>Hualapai Tribe reverses vote on eminent domain law</title>
		<link>http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2012/03/09/hualapai-tribe-reverses-vote-on-eminent-domain-law/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2012 15:41:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Associated Press</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The northwestern Arizona tribe that owns the Grand Canyon Skywalk has reinstated its eminent domain law and voted to ban the Skywalk developer and his employees from the reservation.]]></description>
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		<title>Tribes back bill to ease federal oversight of Indian-land energy projects</title>
		<link>http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2012/02/16/tribes-back-bill-to-ease-federal-oversight-of-indian-land-energy-projects/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 23:07:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Victoria Pelham, Cronkite News Service</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dan Boren]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tribal officials told a House committee Wednesday that federal regulation of energy projects on Indian lands is a “major bottleneck” that is stifling their economies and needs to be changed.]]></description>
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		<title>Sen. Kyl introduces tribal water rights deal</title>
		<link>http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2012/02/14/sen-kyl-introduces-tribal-water-rights-deal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 00:12:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Associated Press</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two northeastern Arizona tribes would waive their rights to water from the Little Colorado River in exchange for the promise of groundwater delivery projects under legislation introduced Tuesday in Congress.]]></description>
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		<title>Navajo official: New EPA emissions rule could cost thousands of jobs</title>
		<link>http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2012/02/09/navajo-official-new-epa-emissions-rule-could-cost-thousands-of-jobs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:43:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Salvador Rodriguez</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON – Power plants on Navajo Nation land need more time to meet new emissions standards or they could be forced to close, throwing thousands of Navajo out of work and costing the tribe millions, an official said Wednesday.
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		<title>Census: Few among Arizona’s tribes claimed to be multiracial</title>
		<link>http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2012/01/26/census-few-among-arizona%e2%80%99s-tribes-claimed-to-be-multiracial/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 21:23:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Victoria Pelham, Cronkite News Service</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The number of American Indians who claimed to be multiracial jumped sharply over the last decade, but not so much in Arizona, the Census Bureau reported Wednesday.]]></description>
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		<title>Tribe votes soon on Phoenix-area freeway plan</title>
		<link>http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2012/01/03/tribe-votes-soon-on-phoenix-area-freeway-plan/</link>
		<comments>http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2012/01/03/tribe-votes-soon-on-phoenix-area-freeway-plan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 14:53:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Associated Press</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gila River Indian Community residents are scheduled to vote Feb. 7 whether to allow the South Mountain Freeway extension on tribal land.]]></description>
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		<title>Tribe refuses to back up casino job-creation claims&#160;</title>
		<link>http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2011/12/12/tribe-refuses-to-back-up-casino-job-creation-claims/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 14:07:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Grado</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Tohono O’odham Nation has relied on a few impressive numbers in its pitch for a casino on a tract of unincorporated land surrounded by Glendale: 6,000 construction jobs and 3,000 permanent jobs.
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		<title>Navajo Nation president wants leeway in federal rules on coal-fired plants</title>
		<link>http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2011/12/02/navajo-nation-president-wants-leeway-in-federal-rules-on-coal-fired-plants/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 20:53:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Armstrong, Cronkite News Service</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Navajo Nation President Ben Shelly told a Senate committee Thursday that the Environmental Protection Agency “ignores reality” by insisting on the most-advanced pollution control technology to update coal-fired power plants.
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