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Bureau of Indian Affairs staff has connections to disputing tribe - 2004-02-22
Among the rolling hills of vineyards and wineries in what is emerging as one of California's fast-growing wine regions, a once-tiny, almost destitute tribe is urging hard to establish a $100 million casino.

It is doing so only because regional Bureau of Indian Affairs officials launched the tribe's membership rolls against the wishes of its traditional leadership, then supervised an election that swapped the old leadership for a pro-casino group like some BIA officials themselves.
Read the full story at Contra Costa Times

'Ridin' the Rez': the plight of Indian tourism - 2004-02-22
The San Xavier del Bac Mission throws long winter shadows across a broad plaza, where John Fendenheim is fixing his cozy tourist shop. Rising from flat desert on the 2.8 million-acre Tohono O'odham Reservation west of Tucson, the Spanish mission has been a pillar of O'odham life for almost three centuries.

And, along with casinos, it's emerged as a financial foothold for the reservation's 24,000 locals.
Read the full story at Christian Science Monitor