Trent Franks Scalping the Indians and Glendale

AZ Republican Congressmen are now going after the indians:

U.S. Rep. Trent Franks plans to introduce a bill Thursday that would stop the Tohono O'odham Nation from building a casino near Glendale.

The bill, called the Gila Bend Indian Reservation Lands Replacement Clarification Act, would modify a 25-year-old settlement between Congress and the Tohono O'odham Nation. It would ban most gambling, including bingo, slot machines and blackjack, on any replacement lands in Pinal, Pima, and Maricopa counties that are taken into the reservation system for the tribe.

This strikes directly at the heart of the Tohono O'odham Nation's plans to build a casino and resort at 95th and Northern avenues. The tribe would be allowed to pursue other types of economic development on the land under Franks' proposal.

The tribe acquired land near Glendale's sports and entertainment district through a congressional act passed in 1986. The Gila Bend Indian Reservation Lands Replacement Act gave the tribe $30 million to replace 9,880 acres of reservation land damaged by a federally built dam.

The southern Arizona tribe purchased the West Valley land as part of the settlement and got federal approval last year to place a portion of the land into the reservation system, a precursor to establishing a casino.

Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/12news/news/articles/2011/09/13/20110913glendale-tre...

Local Republican reps and senators go after the indians:

The Tohono O'odham Nation was victorious again after a U.S. District Court judge declared unconstitutional a law allowing Glendale to annex the nation's property.

It's the latest in a series of decisions that have gone in favor of the Nation, which plans to build a resort-style casino near Westgate City Center, Glendale's slumping entertainment district.

The law, signed by Governor Jan Brewer in February, would have allowed a city to annex land without the owner's approval if that owner asked the feds to take ownership of property or take it into trust.

(Taking land into trust for an Indian nation is effectively creating a reservation for that tribe.)
http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/valleyfever/2011/07/tohono_oodham_nation_get...

Attorneys for the Tohono, however, cite a little-noticed provision in the law which permits gaming on certain lands acquired after the 2002 vote.

In this case, the tribe was given specific federal permission by Congress in 1986 to buy land away from its main reservation in southern Arizona as compensation for about 10,000 acres near Gila Bend flooded by a federal dam project. More to the point, that law permits the Tohono to petition to have the new lands made part of its reservation.

The main restriction was that these lands could not be within the limits of any city.

Right now the bid for reservation status is tied up in federal court, with challenges by both Glendale and the Gila River Indian Community which currently has the closest casino to the area.

This legislation was designed to beat the clock, letting Glendale annex the land over tribal objections. That would allow the tribe to continue with plans for a resort and shopping area but preclude the casino.

Farnsworth said he found the whole measure disturbing, starting with setting the precedent, in this one instance, of letting a city annex property even when the landowners do not want to be included.

"Not a single person in this state has been treated under that kind of provision," he said. "And it only applies to them."

http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/arizona/article_c0be5a40-28d6-11e0-a723-001c...

http://tucsoncitizen.com/three-sonorans/2011/02/01/az-gop-and-jan-brewer-pass...

Original video: http://www.azfamily.com/video/featured-videos/Battle-over-Glendale-casino-hea...

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[ArizonaSean]

Scruggs and thugs continue to destroy Glendale.

[dadhadit]

But that is simply ridiculous who in a world of the Federal government to step in and tell what Indians what they can and cannot build on their own property hundreds of years have passed and they're still trying to control . headed to courts with war paint applied,