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The Poarch Creeks you don’t know

The Poarch Creeks have quietly built an impressive non-gaming business portfolio and turned gambling revenue into a health, education and wellness boon for the entire tribe.
January 8, 2025

Trump administration finalizes return of Native American ancestral remains from Finland

The U.S. Department of the Interior announced Thursday that the Trump administration has successfully negotiated the return of Native American remains and funerary objects that have been on display in a museum in Finland for generations. Last year, President Donald Trump and President Niinistӧ of Finland finalized an agreement to return American Indian ancestral remains … Continued
September 18, 2020

Today is Thanksgiving

Today is a state and national holiday thanking God for the many blessings that He has bestowed on us and our country. The first Thanksgiving was celebrated by the surviving Pilgrims and their Wampanoag Indian friends celebrating the Pilgrims’ first harvest after a brutal winter. The successful first harvest with the aid of the compassionate … Continued
November 28, 2019

England elected first Black Chairman in Alabama Democratic Party history

State Rep. Christopher England, D-Tuscaloosa, is the new chair of the Alabama Democratic Party. The reform faction of the State Democratic Executive Committee met at the Renaissance Hotel in Montgomery to elect the new Alabama Democratic Party chair and vice chair Saturday. England defeated former congressional candidate Tabitha Isner and former candidate for lieutenant governor … Continued
November 4, 2019

The Poarch Creek Indians were noticeably absent in the 2018 election cycle. There’s a good reason why.

Throughout the 2018 election cycle, as major donors and top political action committees dumped needed cash into the campaign accounts of their chosen politicians, there was one major player in the state that remained remarkably quiet. The Poarch Band of Creek Indians. While PCI dumped buckets of cash into various PACs, it did so mostly … Continued
November 29, 2018

Tomorrow is Thanksgiving

Thursday marks the Thanksgiving holiday. Thanksgiving is a national holiday, first declared by President George Washington in 1789 after it was requested by the U.S. Congress. President Thomas Jefferson made the decision not to celebrate the holiday and the holiday went in and out of fashion depending on the whims of each President until Abraham … Continued
November 21, 2018