UPDATE:

Following is an update regarding the current situation with the Oklahoma Tribe's proposed gambling casino on property at the Wyandot Cemetery.

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The court case is going to be August 12th in Topeka Ks. Kickapoo, Wyandot Nation of Kansas, Potawatomie, Sac and Fox, Iowa. We have had the restraining order 'reimposed'. Independent of the Wyandot of Kansas Tribe's actions three citizens groups have organized and are suing the State of Kansas for having passed the gaming compacts with the tribes opening casinos. Gambling is against the Kansas State Constitution. They are using the recent decision against casinos in New Mexico as the basis for their suit.

It appears that this issue ultimatly will become one of States rights vs. the rights of the Federal Government and Indian nations will be left in the cold once again. It is worth noting, the United States Government is set up as a bastardization of our traditional longhouse culture and our Confederacies. There are checks and ballances in both and both are intended to provide representation of the people's wishes. Ultimatly each of the 50 fires is independent of the other.

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