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THE SAGINAW NEWS
- A tribal housing takeover
Joel Kurth The Saginaw News (Friday, February 4, 2000)
- Smear strategy backfires
Joel Kurth The Saginaw News (Monday, January 17, 2000)- Tribe selling its ritzy D.C. digs
"An opulent embassy is the first casualty of the Saginaw
Chippewa Indian Tribe's retreat from the limelight."
Joel Kurth The Saginaw News (Friday, January 14, 2000)
- Chippewa council keeps Peters as chief
The Saginaw News (Wednesday, December 8, 1999)- Forget about casino in city
The Saginaw News (Wednesday, December 8, 1999)
- Chiefs assure tribe "New Chippewa leaders say
most members need not fret about disenrollment."
Joel Kurth The Saginaw News (Sunday, October 31, 1999)- Judges to huddle in tribal fracas
Joel Kurth The Saginaw News (Tuesday, October 19, 1999)- Election doesn't stop tribe bickering
Joel Kurth The Saginaw News (Wednesday, October 13, 1999)- Tribe's infighting rolls way onto tables
Joel Kurth The Saginaw News (Tuesday, October 12, 1999)- Tribal Council ousts officials
Joel Kurth The Saginaw News (Saturday, October 9, 1999)- Tribe officer quits, talks
"Osterman says leaders thwarted investigations."
Joel Kurth The Saginaw News (Wednesday, October 6, 1999)
- Chiefs assure tribe "New Chippewa leaders say
members need not fret about disenrollment."
Joel Kurth Saginaw News (Sunday, September 26, 1999)- Loyalists may fill voter rolls As hundreds gather near Mount Pleasant,
the fight to control the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe is far from over.
Joel Kurth Saginaw News (Monday, September 20, 1999)- Tribal woes raise doubt
Joel Kurth Saginaw News (Saturday, September 18, 1999)- 'Insanity' rules as tribal 'outs' are thwarted in takeover bid
Joel Kurth Saginaw News (Wednesday, September 15, 1999)- Tribe power struggle deepens
Joel Kurth Saginaw News (Friday, September 10, 1999)
- Judge backs BIA "New tribal council retains its authority."
Joel Kurth The Saginaw News (Friday, August 20, 1999)- The brawl's in Bay City court "The revolving door of leadership at
the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe perhaps isn't finished spinning."
Joel Kurth The Saginaw News (Thursday, August 19, 1999)- A case of too many chiefs "A court hearing today involving
the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe could become a "circus."
Joel Kurth The Saginaw News (Wednesday, August 18, 1999)- Ousted council paid for critic The BIA calls it "shameful."
A public relations consultant calls it "business as usual."
Joel Kurth The Saginaw News (Tuesday, August 17, 1999)- Identity crisis "Time and time again the Saginaw Chippewa Tribe has
faced internal struggles. The problem: money, and self-definition."
Joel Kurth The Saginaw News (Monday, August 16, 1999)- Tribe leaders dished dirt "Deposed Indian leaders paid
big money to give foes a black eye, documents show."
Joel Kurth The Saginaw News (Saturday, August 14, 1999)- Casino audit next?
by Rik Hayman The Saginaw News (Saturday, August 14, 1999)- Losing their lobby? "Observers wonder if the changing of the Chippewa guard will deprive the tribe of a high profile it has gained in Washington's corridors of power." by Rik Hayman The Saginaw News (Friday, August 13, 1999)
- Police set to pacify tribe, if...
Joel Kurth The Saginaw News (Friday, August 13, 1999)- Festival's quest to feed mind, body, soul
Mike Thompson The Saginaw News (Friday, August 13, 1999)- Ousted leader: We won't 'just stand by'
by Rik Hayman The Saginaw News (August 12 1999)- Panel ousted "Stubborn tribal leaders bounced"
by Joel Kurth Saginaw News (Wednesday, August 11, 1999)- Tribe awaits power ruling
The Saginaw News (Saturday, August 7, 1999)
- Chippewa leaders talking paper fight
Supposed allies of an embattled chief say they don't know him.
Joel Kurth The Saginaw News (Thursday, June 24, 1999)- Chippewa leaders talking paper fight
"Supposed allies of an embattled chief say they don't know him."
Joel Kurth The Saginaw News (Thursday, June, 17, 1999)- Chief's days apparently numbered
Joel Kurth The Saginaw News (Friday, June, 11, 1999)- Feds order end to tribal brouhaha
Joel Kurth The Saginaw News (Friday, June, 11, 1999)
- Rebel Chippewas rally to regain momentum
Joel Kurth The Saginaw News (Saturday, May, 29, 1999)- Indians plan Friday protest, march
Joel Kurth The Saginaw News (Thursday, May, 27, 1999)- Tribe provides grant to fight school violence
Joel Kurth The Saginaw News (Thursday, May, 27, 1999)
- Success testing tribe A 'sickening' feud fueled by money and
old rivalries has torn apart the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe."
Joel Kurth The Saginaw News Monday, April, 5, 1999- Chief a martyr or dictator? "A rock 'n' roll Indian leader
stands in the center of a rift splitting an ancient tribe."
Joel Kurth The Saginaw News (Monday, April, 5, 1999)
- Ousted chief: Casino gigs canceled
Joel Kurth The Saginaw News (Saturday, December 4, 1999)- Tribal brouhaha deepens Joel Kurth
The Saginaw News (Wednesday, March, 31, 1999)- Stalemate settling over feud Joel Kurth
The Saginaw News (Thursday, March, 18, 1999)- Indian feud boils over Joel Kurth
The Saginaw News (Wednesday, March, 17, 1999)- Shift creates tribal rift Joel Kurth
The Saginaw News (Tuesday, March, 16, 1999)
- City, Chippewas walk a new path with agreement
"Highway signs need some adjustments"
Bay City Times (Friday, June 9, 2000)
The Detroit Free Press
- Bay Mills Community College helps Native Americans
"Prepare for life in mainstream United States."
By James G. Hill Free Press Staff Writer
Published Detroit Free Press August 15, 2000- Future teachers aim to keep native dialect alive and flourishing
By James G. Hill Free Press Staff Writer
Published Detroit Free Press August 15, 2000- U.S., tribes agree to 20-year fishing agreement
Associated Press (Detroit Free Press August 3, 2000)- Tribe must prove it can pay
"Board asks for details on Greektown buyout."
By Tina Lam Free Press Staff Writer (June 29, 2000)- Tribe goes after 90% of casino ownership
"Gaming board receives revised Greektown bid."
By Tina Lam Free Press Staff Writer (June 9, 2000)- Oklahoma urges 'squaw' be avoided
- Natives left faint footsteps
Column by Crystal Harmon (Sunday, May 28, 2000)- City digs, tribe digs in
By Crystal Harmon Bay City Times Writer (Saturday, May 13, 2000)
- Native Americans call for an end to all digging
By Kristina Riggle Times Writer (Friday, April 21, 2000)
- Native Americans want digging to stop at Marquette viaduct
By Crystal Harmon Times Writer
The Bay City Times (Tuesday, March 28, 2000)
- Tribe to rebury plundered Indian remains
By Sarah Kellogg Washington Bureau (BCT Monday, November 29, 1999)- Fletcher site one of most noteworthy in Great Lakes
Bay City Times (Monday, November 29, 1999)
- Tribe seeks halt to BIA meddling
Bay City Times (Tuesday, August 17, 1999)- Powwow shares American Indian culture
By Helen Lounsbury Times Writer (Thursday, July 22, 1999)- Drums of powwow silenced this year
"Craig Waynee said that he looks forward to next year."
Bay City Times (Friday, July 16, 1999)- Standish, MI - Arenac casino idea not in tribe's plans
By Helen Lounsbury Bay City Times Writer (Friday, May, 28, 1999)
- Grave raiders clean out Lake Erie park
"Artifact seekers plunder archeological sites."
By Craig Garrett The Detroit News (Tuesday, 27 Jun 2000)- Logical choice? All bets on tribe
"Other suitors have lined up offering to invest in Greektown Casino."
By Becky Yerak The Detroit News (Friday, June 9, 2000)
- Tribe focus of Greektown casino sale
"In latest deal, businessmen reportedly want $200
million at least for their 40-percent share."
By Becky Yerak The Detroit News (Thursday, May 25, 2000)- Tribe's bid for recognition cited history, not genealogy
By Eileen McNamara News Day (Detroit News 5/21/2000)- Students work on whale's legacy
By Peggy Andersen AP (Detroit News Friday, May 19, 2000)
- Wyandotte to unveil namesake sculpture
"Artwork is tribute to original settlers, Wyandot Indians"
By Craig Garrett The Detroit News (Tuesday March, 21, 2000)
- Diabetes: Study shows effects of Western living
"Our Western lifestyle acts as a poison."
By Tracy Boyd Detroit News Health Writer (Tuesday, February 15, 2000)- Tribe is logical buyer for 3rd casino
"It retains right to match any offer for Greektown."
By Judy DeHaven The Detroit News (Februrary 11, 2000)- Protesters call secret group's rituals offensive
"8 U-M students insist university sever ties with activist society."
By Jodi S. Cohen The Detroit News (Thursday, February 8, 2000)- Indians oppose pier near graves
Craig Garrett The Detroit News (Thursday, February 3, 2000)- Untold stories of the Underground Railroad
"Adrian house opened a window to freedom"
Betty DeRamus The Detroit News (Tuesday, February 1, 2000)
- Courage, secret codes kept clandestine railroad on track
Betty DeRamus The Detroit News (Tuesday, February 1, 2000)- Diversity Day tears down stereotypes
"Students at Shelby's Eisenhower High learn
more about ethnic groups in their school."
Mike Wowk The Detroit News (Wednesday, January, 26, 2000)
- Land transfer angers S.D. Indians
'Federal law can't abrogate treaties,' Sioux Nation says
By William Claiborne WP (Detroit News 12-27-99)- Native American skull to be reburied
"Woman apparently died between 1740 and 1780; uncovered accidentally."
Dick Hardy Associated Press (Wednesday, December 1, 1999)- Court dates in Indian tribal fishing case delayed
Associated Press (Detroit News Saturday, December 11, 1999)
- State tribes want first word on unearthed bones
"Indians push for law protecting ancestral grounds."
By Shawn D. Lewis The Detroit News (Wednesday, October 27, 1999)- Judge orders six-week mediation in tribal fishing case
By lisa Singhania AP (The Detroit News - Saturday, October 16, 1999)- Indians protest loss of advocate
Associated Press (The Detroit News - Thursday, October 14, 1999)- Native Americans fight to save burial grounds
"Proposed state law protects graves from development"
By Shawn D. Lewis The Detroit News (Monday, October 11, 1999)- Activists band to block nuke waste "Uranium-laced shipment
will pass through Michigan as it heads north to Canadian reactor."
By Dee-Ann Durbin AP (The Detroit News- Thursday, October 7, 1999)- Harvests take over October festivals
By Ellyce Field Special to The Detroit News (Friday, October 1, 1999)
- Golfer full of moxie rejects Prez "Notah Begay III
is a mix of Stanford suave and down-home humility."
Free Press News Services (September 21, 1999)
- Politics, personalities at heart of Saginaw Chippewa dispute
By John Flesher AP (Detroit News ~ August 14, 1999)- New tribal council calls for investigation as old council drops lawsuit
By Dee-Ann Durbin AP (Detroit News ~ August 14, 1999)- Tribal dispute goes unnoticed by casino patrons
By B.G. Gregg The Detroit News (Friday, August 13, 1999)- Tribal dispute goes unnoticed by casino patrons
By B.G. Gregg The Detroit News (Friday, August 13, 1999)
By Judy DeHaven The Detroit News (Wednesday, August 11, 1999)- Tribes hold rights of sovereign nation
Detroit News (Wednesday, August 11, 1999)
- Saginaw Chippewas to hire own expert to monitor study of old grave
Associated Press (Detroit Free Press May 13, 2000)
- Grave beneath viaduct deemed 3,000 years old
Associated Press (Detroit Free Press April 27, 2000)
- Tribal casinos freed from 8 percent state payment
Associated Press (Detroit Free Press - March 6, 2000)
- Ann Arbor: Sit-in continues over secret group
By Brian Ballou Detroit Free Press (February 21, 2000)- NABA sees future in Michigan
An organization operating in 42 states and Canada that represents
Native-American companies will soon call metro Detroit home.
By Alejandro Bodipo-Memba Freep Business Writer
(Saturday, February 19, 2000)
- Mount Pleasant, MI - Area Indian tribes discuss economic development
Associated Press (DFP January 27, 2000, 5:45 PM)- Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe plans to sell its Washington mansion
Associated Press (DFP January 14, 2000)
- Rancher sees birth of "White" Bison as blessing
By John Flesher Associated Press (September 18, 1999)
- Double RR Bison "Dedicated to furthering awareness of the American Bison"
- Chippewa faction blocked "Ousted council sues federal Indian bureau."
By Nedra Pickler AP (DFP August 18, 1999)- MT. Pleasant - Ousted members in tribe file suit
Detroit Free Press Michigan news briefs. (August 17, 1999)- Chippewa fight: 'Politics as usual'
"Casino fuels struggle; one side drops lawsuit."
By John Flesher AP (Detroit Free Press ~ August 14, 1999)- Tribal dispute heads to court Standoff continues; hearing set for today
By Nedra Pickler (August 13, 1999)- Tribal tensions ease as faction puts off fight
"Ex-Saginaw Chippewa leaders still seek control despite election losses."
By Nedra Pickler Associated Press (DFP August 12, 1999)
- Events set to begin at UM-Flint to focus on American Indians
By Mary Sell Journal Staff Writer
Flint Journal (Tuesday, March 7, 2000)
- Indians, Hispanics count, too
"Catherine Davids was not in a particularly good mood.
After years of being forced to sit in the background
while whites and blacks discussed the issue of racism
in the Flint area, she decided she had had enough."
By Jim Larkin Flint Journal (Sunday, February 6, 2000)
- U-M protesters plant paper tombstones in lawn
By Mary Morgan News Staff Reporter
Ann Arbor News (Tuesday, March 7, 2000)
- Bollinger, faculty talk about student protesters
"Coalition protests Michigamua's use of Native American rituals."
By Mary Morgan News Staff Reporter (Tuesday, February 15, 2000)
- Is EMU debate over nickname worth the fight?
A. Whitesall Ann Arbor News (Friday, December 10, 1999)
- Tribe has Calhoun casino site "Federal OK expected for
$60 million gambling palace to open in 12 to 18 months."
By Edward Hoogterp Kalamazoo Gazette (Wednesday, December 15, 1999)
- Casino planners sue to get Engler to cut deal
By Garrison Wells Grand Rapids Press (Saturday, July 15, 2000)- Burial remains "Remains of two Ottawa Indians, unearthed for
construction, given new resting place in township cemetery."
By Pat Shellenbarger Grand Rapids Press (Saturday, July 15, 2000)
- Indian team names targeted
By Ted Roelofs
Grand Rapids Press (Thursday, March 23, 2000)
- American Indian band wants to build neighborhood
By Bryce Hoekenga GRP (Tuesday, January 11, 2000)
- Pieces Of The Past
"S-curve dig unearths artifacts from area's 'first people'
By Jennifer Ackerman-Haywood GRP (Friday, December 3, 1999)
- MSA votes to support protesters
By Lisa Koivu Daily Staff Reporter
(Wednesday, February 9, 2000)- Tower protestors meet with administrators
By Jeremy W. Peters Daily Staff Reporter
(Wednesday, February 9, 2000)