11. Several tribes have used that five-year period to learn casino management, and then taken over the operations. 12. She became known as La Tariacuri, a name that the indigenous Purepecha tribes used for their king. 13. The tribe uses the land for recreation and plans to start a dude ranch there for American and European tourists. 14. The tribe could use the money from a casino for education or health benefits, Battise said. 15. The tribe will use that water to irrigate farmland and, in return, allow Mesa and Chandler to take a slightly smaller amount of fresh CAP water. 16. To prove community, tribes have used everything from rate of intertribal marriages to numbers of telephone calls between members. 17. Tribes use the revenues they raise from gaming and from other commercial activities to build roads and sewers and housing and education. 18. Tribes have used the law to prevent hundreds of adoptions of Indian children by white parents, saying such adoptions are a kind of cultural genocide. 19. Under federal law, American Indian tribes can use land within their own reservations for casinos or buy land elsewhere and put it into trust with the government. 20. An Indian tribe is using the U.S. Constitution to fight city hall. |