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Article: HO-CHUNK GUILTY OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION.(OPINION)(GUEST COLUMN)(Column)
- Article from:
- The Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI)
- Article date:
- March 7, 2004
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Byline: Daniel Brown
A major problem festers at the Ho-Chunk Nation casinos: Racial discrimination.
The current Ho-Chunk Nation government continually creates "Ho-Chunk preference" policies that discriminate against non-tribal employees at the casinos. This is a problem for a wide variety of reasons, not the least of which is that there is a clear difference between the attitudes of most tribal people toward mainstream society and those demonstrated by the Ho-Chunk Nation's unfortunate leadership.
I began my employment with the Ho-Chunk Nation in September 1993. At that time, the Ho-Chunk preference policy was something that allowed a tribal ...