This American Life: Chukchansi Tribe stuck in bitter disputes

Wednesday, April 3, 2013  

This American Life on the election and disenrollment disputes within the Picayune Rancheria of the Chukchansi Indians of California:

There is a Native American tribe in California called the Chukchansi that’s fighting over the most basic thing any group can fight over — who should be a member? David Ferry explains just how bitter their dispute has become.

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491: Tribes (This American Life 3/29)

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One faction of Chukchansi Tribe in control of bank accounts (03/21)
Picayune Rancheria of Chukchansi Indians embroiled in dispute (03/14)