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It was a big day for the three Alberta First Nations that have been fighting Bill C-31, the 1985 government law that returned treaty status to thousands of Native people.

On June 3, the Federal Court of Appeal threw out a 1995 judgement by Judge F. Muldoon that ruled against the Sawridge, Tsuu T'ina and Ermineskin First Nations and in favor of upholding Bill C-31. Muldoon ruled the bases for court action against the bill was unfounded, but the court of appeal found Muldoon's ruling to be suspect and labeled the judge's findings as "biased."

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It was a big day for the three Alberta First Nations that have been fighting Bill C-31, the 1985 government law that returned treaty status to thousands of Native people.

On June 3, the Federal Court of Appeal threw out a 1995 judgement by Judge F. Muldoon that ruled against the Sawridge, Tsuu T'ina and Ermineskin First Nations and in favor of upholding Bill C-31. Muldoon ruled the bases for court action against the bill was unfounded, but the court of appeal found Muldoon's ruling to be suspect and labeled the judge's findings as "biased."

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Visitors to the Big Apple can take an hour or an afternoon away from the big city and spend a little time at the Heye Centre of the National Museum of the American Indian, without leaving town. Located at the tip of Battery Park in lower Manhattan, the museum features changing exhibitions and public educational sessions, as well as a permanent orientation exhibition, all designed to explore and explain Native American culture.

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Visitors to the Big Apple can take an hour or an afternoon away from the big city and spend a little time at the Heye Centre of the National Museum of the American Indian, without leaving town. Located at the tip of Battery Park in lower Manhattan, the museum features changing exhibitions and public educational sessions, as well as a permanent orientation exhibition, all designed to explore and explain Native American culture.

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Visitors to the Big Apple can take an hour or an afternoon away from the big city and spend a little time at the Heye Centre of the National Museum of the American Indian, without leaving town. Located at the tip of Battery Park in lower Manhattan, the museum features changing exhibitions and public educational sessions, as well as a permanent orientation exhibition, all designed to explore and explain Native American culture.

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It takes only a few seconds for the magnitude of the development on the Mashantucket Pequot Reservation in rural Connecticut to sink in. Foxwoods, the casino that has transformed this sleepy, impoverished First Nation into the richest in America, is huge. And it is the granddaddy of all the casinos on reservations across the U.S.

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It takes only a few seconds for the magnitude of the development on the Mashantucket Pequot Reservation in rural Connecticut to sink in. Foxwoods, the casino that has transformed this sleepy, impoverished First Nation into the richest in America, is huge. And it is the granddaddy of all the casinos on reservations across the U.S.

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It takes only a few seconds for the magnitude of the development on the Mashantucket Pequot Reservation in rural Connecticut to sink in. Foxwoods, the casino that has transformed this sleepy, impoverished First Nation into the richest in America, is huge. And it is the granddaddy of all the casinos on reservations across the U.S.

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A growing interest in Native American culture has caused a major economic boom for Indian people in America's Four Corners region-where Utah, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico meet. And if current trends continue, tourism will provide even more to the local economy in the near future.

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A growing interest in Native American culture has caused a major economic boom for Indian people in America's Four Corners region-where Utah, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico meet. And if current trends continue, tourism will provide even more to the local economy in the near future.