Gambling at Arizona's Fort McDowell has taken the Yavapai
Indians from poverty to wealth in just three years.
Magazine
April 1, 1996
Gambling at Arizona's Fort McDowell has taken the Yavapai Indians from poverty to wealth in just three years.
Feature
Legalized gambling in Deadwood, S.D., has brought
prosperity but destroyed a community in the process.
Sidebar
Modern Indian gambling began with a lawsuit over bingo at
New York's Oneida Nation, and bingo continues to be important to
the tribe.
A survey of the West shows a variety of ways to gamble in
every state but Utah.
In her own words, an anonymous gambler describes how she
got hooked on gambling at Arizona's Fort McDowell.
Navajos are undecided about whether to legalize gambling
with all its potential money - and many problems.
Environmentalists and sportsmen gather in Rock Springs,
Wyo., to discuss the problems caused by increasing oil and gas
development.
Essays
A Deadwood citizen who originally pushed for legalized
gambling reflects sadly on the way her town has changed.
Book Reviews
The Grand Canyon Visibility Transport Commission gets
ready to send the EPA its recommendation for restoring clean air to
the Colorado Plateau.
A symposium, "Managing Natural Resources at the Urban
Interface: The Challenge of a Changing West," will be presented at
Utah State University, April 17-19.
The Symposium on Nonviolence and Civil Disobedience is
being held at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Wash., April
19-21.
Heard Around the West
Sen. Hatfield and sausages, hunting in a bra, East bunny
"scramble" in N.M., Oliver Stone opposing buffalo hunting in N.M.,
Carlsbad Caverns a world heritage site, John Talbott fished without
a license but still is on Wyoming payroll.
Dear Friends
Idaho honors Ernie Day, Nelle Tobias and Bruce Bowler;
update on Dabo Lamine; Theo Colborn's book, "Our Stolen Future,"
Meg O'Shaughnessy leaves HCN; barcodes and reader survey.
News
Self-taught grazing activist Michael Seidman wins a
victory when a federal judge rules that the Forest Service's
analysis of a grazing allotment on Arizona's Tonto National Forest
was inadequate.
Montana environmentalists rejoice at Bill Yellowtail's
decision to run for the congressional seat vacated by Rep. Pat
Williams.
The Green Party will run a candidate against Republican
Sen. Pete Domenici in New Mexico, and also wants to draft Ralph
Nader as a presidential candidate.
Winter tourists on snowmobiles are giving Yellowstone
National Park the worst air pollution in the country.
The Senate Energy Committee approves the temporary storage
of nuclear waste near Nevada's Yucca Mountain.
A U.S. District Court strikes down Nye County, Nevada's
ordinance claiming county ownership of all public lands in its
borders.
Yellowstone's new wolves knock the coyotes out of the "top
dog" position in the park's ecosystem.
The Klamath tribes of southern Oregon file a lawsuit to
stop the salvage logging of traditional hunting and fishing
grounds.
Opinion
High Country News offers High Country Snooze as an April
Fool's look at the paper.
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