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TUESDAY, JULY 2, 2002

"Even though I have lived in many parts of this country, I believed that the northern Plains was the "real" Indian country after all, North Dakota is my home. And while it is true that this is Indian country, there are, and were, other areas where large groups of Native people live.

During my recent trip to the Native American Journalists Association conference in San Diego, I learned that California has many tribes.

I believed the stereotype about California and thought it was reaffirmed by the recent story about the Native American woman and her two children who were the only members of a remote California tribe and who were seeking permission to build a multimillion-dollar casino. Many of us in North Dakota believed that most of the Native people in California had been sent there through a federal relocation program that began in the 1950s. . ."

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COLUMNIST DORREEN YELLOW BIRD: California trip shatters stereotypes (The Grand Forks Herald 7/2)

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