Post by Okwes on Feb 28, 2007 16:16:26 GMT -5
Key Indian Leader Welmas Dead At 77
By UPI
ESCONDIDO, Calif. - Dec. 28, 2006 (UPI) -- Arthur James Welmas, who led
the Cabazon Band of Mission Indians in a key victory at the U.S. Supreme
Court, has died at the age of 77. The Los Angeles Times said Welmas, who
led the California American-Indian tribe against the Supreme Court in a
key reservation gambling case, died Dec. 17 of complications from
diabetes and kidney failure. In 1983, Welmas and the Riverside County
tribe fought the efforts of area officials to interfere with their
gambling endeavors and took the matter to the Supreme Court, which ruled
that that states cannot regulate gambling on Indian reservations.
By UPI
ESCONDIDO, Calif. - Dec. 28, 2006 (UPI) -- Arthur James Welmas, who led
the Cabazon Band of Mission Indians in a key victory at the U.S. Supreme
Court, has died at the age of 77. The Los Angeles Times said Welmas, who
led the California American-Indian tribe against the Supreme Court in a
key reservation gambling case, died Dec. 17 of complications from
diabetes and kidney failure. In 1983, Welmas and the Riverside County
tribe fought the efforts of area officials to interfere with their
gambling endeavors and took the matter to the Supreme Court, which ruled
that that states cannot regulate gambling on Indian reservations.