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Cowlitz Tribe Takes Over Mohegan To Run ilani Casino In Washington

After six years of working together to run ilani Casino Resort in Washington, just north of Vancouver, the Cowlitz Indian Tribe and the Connecticut-based Mohegan Tribe will end their partnership next year.

The Cowlitz Tribe enlisted the help of the Mohegan Tribe to launch and manage the casino starting in 2017. And, now, in July 2024, the Cowlitze Tribe will assume full management of the property.

According to an article by The Columbian, Cowlitz Indian Tribe Chairwoman Patty Kinswa-Gaiser said in a statement:

“After careful consideration, the Cowlitz Tribal Gaming Authority has recommended, and the Cowlitz Tribal Council has approved, a decision to begin a multi-step process of transitioning ilani from an enterprise managed by the Mohegan Tribe to a self-managed enterprise.”

What’s ahead for ilani Casino in Washington?

According to the Cowlitz tribe, not much will change over the next 15 months. Mohegan will continue to provide management services for the occasion. ilani leadership and staff will stay in place.

Next year, Cowlitz will take over management of the casino. Kinswa-Gaiser said that the transition to self-management of the casino is a natural part of the process. The Mohegan Tribe showed the Cowlitz the casino management ropes. Over the past six years, the Cowlitz has eased into shared management responsibilities.

And, as was the plan, the tribe will overtake total control of the casino’s management. The two tribes will continue their partnership in other partnerships and initiatives, although the Cowlitz gave no specifics. Kinswa Gaiser continued:

“We are forever grateful for the remarkable success and benefits this partnership has brought our tribal members and the Cowlitz community since ilani opened its doors in 2017. We raise our hands to the Mohegan Tribe and will continue the standard of excellence they brought to ilani.”

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Lenape Regional High School District Sports Roundup

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Cherokee 9, Seneca 2: Evan Brown (4-for-5, 3 RBIs, home run) led visiting Cherokee (4-1, 1-1) to a win over Seneca (0-2, 0-1) in an Olympic Conference interdivision game April 11.

Cameron Della Vecchia had two hits and scored three times for the Chiefs, while Brody Miner fanned six in 5 1/3 innings for the win.

Michael Orth and Kyle Trzaskawka each had two hits and scored a run for the Golden Eagles. Alex Argabright and Brayden Davis knocked in the first-inning runs with a double and single, respectively.

Olympic Interdivision

April 11, Tabernacle

Cherokee 9, Seneca 2

Cherokee – 013 000 5 – 9 10 0

Seneca – 200 000 0 – 2 7 2

WP: Brody Minder; LP: Liam Trzaskawka; 2B: C-Brett Chiesa; S-Alex Argabright; HR: C-Leo Bluestein, Evan Brown.

 

Shawnee 10, Lenape 0, 5 inn.: Jackson Logar hurled a one-hitter with five walks and 11 strikeouts as Shawnee (4-1, 2-0) routed visiting Lenape (1-2, 1-0) in a five-inning Olympic Conference interdivision game April 11.

Oskar Heino’s belted a three-run homer for the Renegades, while Danny Scullion (3-for-3, 2 RBIs, home run) and Evan Lure (2-for-2, 2 RBIs, run) also contributed to the 10-hit offense.

Grant Hunter’s single was the lone hit for the Indians.

Olympic Interdivision

April 11, Medford

Shawnee 10, Lenape 0, 5 inn.

Lenape – 000 00 – 0 1 1

Shawnee – 331 21 – 10 10 0

WP: Jackson Logar; LP: Ethan Samartino; 2B: S-Ben Rickards, Chris Ahrens, Evan Lure; HR: S-Danny Scullion, Oskar Heino.

Cherokee 15, Washington Township 5, 5 inn.: Cameron Della Vecchia (4-for-4, double, 3 RBIs, 4 runs) led visiting Cherokee (5-1, 1-1) in a rout of Washington Township (3-1, 2-0) in a five-inning nonleague game April 12.

Evan Brown had a three-run double and scored a run for the Chiefs,…

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Lenape ask Pennsylvania Mennonites for land to bury their ancestors

The Mennonite Heritage Center in Harleysville, Pa., welcomed the Lenape (Delaware) tribe of Bartlesville, Okla., on April 12. After a potluck supper with local Mennonites, Chief Brad KillsCrow, tribal elder John Thomas, and tribal historic preservation officer Susan Bachor presented their request: land to bury their ancestors.

Since 1990, the Native American Graves and Protection and Repatriation Act has required that museums and universities return Indigenous human remains and funerary items after consulting with descendants and tribal organizations. As Indigenous groups receive the bones of their ancestors, however, some tribes face the next question: where to bury them.

Mennonites arrived in southeastern Pennsylvania in 1683 and now live on the Lenape ancestral homeland, which encompasses greater Philadelphia, New Jersey and parts of New York.

“We have no presence in our homeland,” KillsCrow said. “How do we put our ancestors back in the ground?”

The Lenape have already worked with the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to bury about 200 ancestors at Pennsbury Manor, William Penn’s country estate in Morrisville, in 2022. But thousands still need burial space.

Addressing the crowd of 120 gathered in the Mennonite Heritage Center barn, KillsCrow said, “Our ancestors helped you. Your ancestors helped us. I humbly ask if there is anything you can do.” He suggested a few acres, preferably an open meadow in a remote location. The Lenape would like to bury their ancestors with traditional ceremonies.

The Lenape had considered burying their ancestors in Oklahoma, KillsCrow said, but tribal elders pointed out these ancestors never lived in Oklahoma. The Lenape settled there in the 1860s after gradual displacement from Pennsylvania by European expansion and then forced removal by the U.S. government. The Lenape want to honor their ancestors, whose bones have been kept in museums and other institutions, by bringing…

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Mohican Wildlife Weekend to dive into H2O education April 28-30th

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Linguistics Effort Leads to Opening of Algonquian Library

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ACME Screening Room presents Earth Day film

Join the Acme Screening Room, 25 S. Union St., Lambertville, N.J., for an Earth Day presentation at 6:30 p.m. Friday, of the documentary “The Meaning of the Seed.”

The Ramapough today are instituting their own programs geared at restoring Indigenous environmental knowledge through activities such as waterway community paddles, Munsee language classes, and other elements of a cultural restoration program. An important site for this undertaking is the Munsee Three Sisters Medicinal Farm in Sussex County, N.J., founded in May 2020.

In September 2020 a documentary crew filmed a talking circle of Ramapough elders, relations, and partners at the Munsee Three Sisters Medicinal Farm. The resulting documentary, “The Meaning of the Seed,” is structured along the layers of the landscape.

The first section, “Soil,” describes the history of contamination in Ringwood and the contaminated ground that many Native Americans live on or nearby. “Seed” recounts the struggles of the Ramapough and their cultural connections to the land.

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“Growth” chronicles the cultural restoration program and efforts to work toward food sovereignty through their recently inaugurated Munsee Three Sisters Medicinal Farm in Newton, N.J. Finally, “Sunlight” is a call to action, as the talking circle participants urge a younger generation to become involved.

A post screening discussion will follow the film with Vincent Mann, Turtle Clan Chief of the Ramapough Lenape Nation, Michaeline Picaro, a member of the Turtle Clan and professor Anita Bakshi,…

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Felony assault charges withdrawn against Nanticoke man

Apr. 10—WILKES-BARRE — A Nanticoke man accused of aiming a handgun at a Nanticoke police officer and a child caseworker with Luzerne County Children and Youth Services and placing a handgun in the mouth of a woman pled guilty to misdemeanor charges Monday.

Cory Ma Gonzalez Crudop, 40, of State Street, stood accused of hiding in the basement of a residence at 64 Hill St., as three Nanticoke police officers assisted two caseworkers from Children & Youth Services inspecting the home on July 14, according to court records.

When an officer opened a door, Crudop was accused of aiming a firearm at the officer before fleeing the house where he aimed the firearm at a caseworker, according to court records.

The incident prompted a massive police search of the Lower Broadway area of Nanticoke that ended in Crudop’s apprehension at his residence.

Child caseworkers were at the house two days after Crudop on July 12 placed the barrel of a handgun in the mouth of a woman during a domestic dispute and threw a car battery through the windshield of a vehicle that a child occupied, court records say.

Crudop was scheduled for trial this week.

Instead, prosecutors amended the felony grading of two counts of aggravated assault to misdemeanor simple assault in a negotiated plea agreement with Crudop and his attorney, Frank McCabe, involving the police officer and child caseworker.

Crudop pled guilty to four total counts of simple assault and a single count of terroristic threats, all misdemeanors, before President Judge Michael T. Vough.

A felony count of aggravated assault involving the placing of a gun in the woman’s mouth was withdrawn.

Crudop is scheduled to be sentenced June 8. He remains free on $10,000 unsecured bail.

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Travel Advisory: RIDOT Temporarily Closing Route 102 from April 24-28 for Paving at the Mohegan Bridge in Burrillville

Starting Monday, April 24 and lasting through Friday, April 28, the Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT) will close Route 102 (Bronco Highway) in both directions at the Mohegan Bridge in Burrillville. This closure is necessary to allow the Department to safely waterproof and pave the bridge deck, its approaches, and the intersection with Route 7.

During the closure, motorists on Route 102 North and South will follow Victory Highway to Route 7 (Douglas Pike) to get back onto Route 102. Temporary traffic signals will be in use along the detour route to aid all motorists, but travel-time delays are likely, averaging about 10 minutes during the busiest morning commuting hours. A detour map is available at www.ridot.net/DetourMaps.

RIDOT reopened the Mohegan Bridge in January to restore two-way traffic ahead of the project completion date this spring. Now that construction season has begun, RIDOT will complete the paving and finalize construction. In addition to replacing the bridge, the $10.6 million project includes new guardrail and drainage improvements.

The Mohegan Bridge carries about 15,200 vehicles per day over the Branch River in Burrillville.

All construction projects are subject to changes in schedule and scope depending on needs, circumstances, findings, and weather.

The replacement of the Mohegan Bridge is made possible by RhodeWorks, and the Bipartisan Infrastructure and Improvement Act. RIDOT is committed to bringing Rhode Island’s infrastructure into a state of good repair while respecting the environment and striving to improve it. Learn more at www.ridot.net/RhodeWorks.

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Photos: Clearwater on the Hudson River in Kingston

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The Clearwater motors into the Rondout Creek in Kingston, N.Y. Monday afternoon, April 17, 2023. (Tania Barricklo/Daily Freeman)The Clearwater motors into the Rondout Creek in Kingston, N.Y. Monday afternoon, April 17, 2023. (Tania Barricklo/Daily Freeman) The Clearwater motors into the Rondout Creek in Kingston, N.Y. Monday afternoon, April 17, 2023, passing the Rondout Lighthouse. (Tania Barricklo/Daily Freeman)The Clearwater motors into the Rondout Creek in Kingston, N.Y. Monday afternoon, April 17, 2023, passing the Rondout Lighthouse. (Tania Barricklo/Daily Freeman) Author
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RELIGION: Our nightly visitors

Our nightly visitors for the past year have been possums. Excuse me — opossums.

Possums without the “o” are phalangeriformes. (I know, it’s hard to pronounce.) They are arboreal marsupials and are native to Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea, Tasmania and the Solomon Islands. They might be related to kangaroos.

It’s opossums (with the “o”) who live in North and South America. They’re part of the Didelphimorphia (another funny word) order of marsupials. The Virginia Opossum is the only opossum group found in the United States and Canada, although they also extend south to Central America.

The name “opossum” seems to have originated from the Proto-Algonquian native American tribe. The original word (something like “wa-pa-themwa”) could mean “white dog” or “dog-like beast.” Early American colonists described them as “head like a swine, tail like a rat, and the bigness of a cat.”

Somehow wa-pa-themwa morphed into opossum but many folks simply call them “possum.”

There are approximately 103 kinds of opossums in the world, ranging from the pygmy opossum to the domestic cat-sized Virginia Opossum.

As the old Santa Fe Trail ran from Missouri through Kansas to New Mexico, our property seems to be in the path of the Old Opossum Trail. Where it starts and ends, I don’t know, but those critters like our cat food!

The “dog-like-beast” I trapped early this morning was the 13th opossum we caught, and today is Friday. Therefore, I’ve named it “Friday, the 13th.”

Opossums prefer wooded areas and many live in hollow trees or stumps. But they’ll accept abandoned dens of other animals, rock crevices and wood piles. And since humans have invaded the forests, opossums have adapted to living under houses and sheds. Homeowners consider them pests as they often cause damage to property, lawns and gardens.

They may grow as…

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