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Spilyay Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon
December 4, 2019
Around Indian Country
Longtime employee to lead Couer d’Alene gaming
Laura Stensgar is the new
chief executive officer of the
Coeur d’Alene Casino Resort
Hotel in Worley, Idaho. She’s
a very familiar face at the fa-
cility, as she has worked there
since its debut 25 years
ago,The Pacific Northwest
Inlander reports.
“I think what’s key is our
employees,” Stensgar told
The Inlander of her vision.
“I really want to empower
employees to offer that
great customer ser vice,
what we call traditional
tribal hospitality. I really
want to focus on that. And
then continue to be a good
neighbor and work with the
community.”
Stensgar
succeeds
Francis SiJohn, who re-
signed in early October. She
was named interim CEO
during the search for a per-
manent leader before being
named to the post.
“The Tribal Council has a
lot of confidence in Laura’s
abilities,” Chief Allan, the
tribe’s vice chair, said in a
statement quoted by The
Spokesman-Review. “We
have no doubt she will con-
tinue to run our resort at the
top level we know she is ca-
pable of and that our guests
have come to expect of us.”
Shoshone-Bannock win hazardous waste case
The Ninth U.S. Circuit
Court of Appeals ruled in
favor recently in the case of
FMC Cor poration vs
Shoshone-Bannock Tribes.
FMC argued that the
tribe’s demand for payment
of storage of hazardous
waste on the reservation
should be dismissed, as the
demand could be in perpe-
tuity: Waste from a now-
closed FMC phosphate pro-
cessing plant has become a
Superfund site, and safe
cleanup could take decades.
Or forever.
FMC stopped paying the
tribes for storage in 2001,
when the it ceased the phos-
phorus operations.
The tribes sued in tribal
court. Eventually the case
reached a tribal appeals
court, and that court found
the money was owed because
“FMC’s creation and stor-
age of this hazardous waste
on the reservation creates
“an ongoing and extensive
threat to human health” and
threatens the “welfare and
cultural practices of the
Tribes and their members.”
Last month the Ninth
U.S. Circuit Court of Ap-
peals ruled the tribal appeals
court had jurisdiction in the
case, and its ruling stands.
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