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Just like Saturday Night Live, but better! Indianz.Com's update of noteworthy stories that came across the wires past weekend.

Gover signs gaming compacts
Sixy California gaming tribes had their gaming compacts authorized by Kevin Gover, head of the BIA. The tribe's received overwhelming support for their gaming operations by California voters, who passed Proposition 1A in March.
Indian gambling deals get final OK (Copley News 5/6)
Statement of Assistant Secretary of the Interior-Indian Affairs Kevin Gover on the Approval of the California Gaming Compacts (The Bureau of Indian Affairs/Dept of Interior 5/5)

Mother files mascot complaint
The mother of two Indian students in Bemidji, Minnesota has filed a civil rights complaint over a pep rally held at the Win-E-Mac High School in Erskine. She said racial slurs were hurled at her two sons. The complaint was filed with the Department of Education.
Mother files discrimination complaint over pep fest (AP 5/7)

Battle gets attention
The Baker Battle is all but forgotten for many. But two amateur archaeologists have been uncovering the site where Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse, along with Sioux, Cheyenne and Arapaho warriors, attacked the Army in 1872.
History’s Ricochet: Amateur archaeologists probe Baker Battle of 1872 (The Billing Gazette 5/7)

Mapuche fight for land
The increased militancy of the Mapuche tribe in Chile has raised awareness of their cultural, legal, and political struggles. The tribe succesfully defended their land against the Spanish but lost control to Chile's military in the 1880s. Their land base today is about 1,200 square miles.
Chile's Mapuche Indians fight to reclaim land (The San Francisco Examiner 5/7)