Transparency In Reservation Creation (CA – Reservation Transparency)
Modesto Bee (August 20, 2010) While California voters supported expanded Indian gaming, they didn't intend for tribes to go reservation shopping to put Las Vegas-style casinos far beyond traditional Indian lands. But that has been the pattern for many gaming tribes. Now Congress is trying to complicate the issue with a rider quietly slipped into an appropriations bill.

NCIP Versus The Constitution (CA – Tribal Sovereignty)
Ledger Dispatch (August 19, 2010) It is academic that the emotional voices of the people that do not want, or want, certain issues mean nothing to the rulings by the United States' Supreme Court Judges. The judges are bound by the Constitution. Bonafide Native Americans, and their sovereignty, have certain inalienable rights and privileges.
 
Tribal Lands Struggle To Bring Clean Power Online (CA – Solar Potential on Tribal Lands)
NPR (August 20, 2010) The Campo reservation is home to what locals call Kumeyaay 1. It's a wind farm, the only large-scale renewable energy plant on Indian land in the country. The 25 turbines, which went online in 2005, provide electricity to up to 35,000 homes in San Diego County. LaChappa, who serves as tribal chairwoman, says the wind farm has changed the way tribal members think about their reservation.

Tribes Sign Up For Poker Consortium (CA – Morongo Band of Mission Indians – Online Gaming Legislation)
Press Enterprise (August 19, 2010) At least 21 tribes have signed up to participate in a "California Intertribal Intrastate Poker Consortium" organized by the Banning-area Morongo Band of Mission Indians. Wednesday's signups included several tribes with "substantial gaming interests," Morongo spokesman Patrick Dorinson said. He declined to name any of the tribes.

Panel Knew Casino ATMs Dispensed Welfare Funds (CA – Welfare Funds Used at Casinos)
San Francisco Chronicle (August 20, 2010) Since the practice was disclosed two months ago, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's administration has repeatedly criticized the fact that a state agency under his control was allowing welfare recipients to withdraw cash benefits at casinos and other gambling establishments.

Yurok Tribe Helps Bring Back California Condor (CA – Yurok Tribe – Saving the California Condor)
San Francisco Chronicle (August 20, 2010) An American Indian tribe is leading an effort to reintroduce endangered California condors to the northern part of the state, where they once played a major role in Indian traditions and are still honored in song and dance.

Backers Of Indian Trust Settlement Seek Payout (US – Cobell Lawsuit)
Argus Leader (August 20, 2010) Having come close twice before, lawyers are trying again to persuade Congress to approve $3.4 billion needed to resolve a landmark settlement over federal mismanagement of Native American trust accounts.
 
Poker Payment Processors Settle With US Government (US – Poker Stars Reach Agreement)
Poker Room Review (August 19, 2010) Two former payment processors for PokerStars reached an agreement with the United States government on August 17th, ending a legal battle over funds that the US had seized about a year ago. The funds, approximately $13.3 million, were seized from the Goldwater Bank accounts of Ahmad Khawaja and his firms, Allied Wallet and Allied Systems.