The Tigua Indians have fallen on hard times, and they lay part of the blame on Jack Abramoff. The tribe paid Abramoff and Michael Scanlon $4.2 million to lobby Congress for permission to reopen their ...

EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14/CBS4) — Hundreds gathered at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Mission to pay their final respects to José Sierra, a revered Tigua tribal leader. Sierra, who passed away earlier this ...

EL PASO — After losing a long court battle with the state, the Tigua Indians closed their Speaking Rock Casino outside El Paso in 2002, leaving the Kickapoo tribe with the only legal gambling hall in ...

It is a great idea that the Mexican American Cultural Institute (MACI) has picked the Lincoln Center to be its national headquarters. I think it will benefit the local area tremendously. I disagree ...

The Tigua tribe’s Ysleta Del Sur Pueblo attracts a lot of outside visitors, and is even home to many who aren’t Native Americans. Yet tribal police have never been able to arrest, or protect their ...

EL PASO, Texas — The Tigua tribe will suspend all sweepstakes games at Speaking Rock Casino midnight Tuesday. In their place, the tribe will start to offer bingo. The change is in response to a court ...

Jack Abramoff apologized profusely for the damage he did to El Paso’s Tigua Indian tribe during an interview with El Paso Times editor Robert Moore. “I’m horribly sorry for the things I did that were ...

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EL PASO, Texas -- The Tigua tribe scored a major victory against Texas over the legality of gambling. The Tigua can legally operate bingo-based games at their Speaking Rock Entertainment Center in the ...

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AUSTIN — The newly elected leader of the Tigua Indian tribe in El Paso, where tribal members are fighting charges of illegal gambling from the Texas attorney general, has a criminal history spanning ...

A funeral Mass for Francisco "Frank" Holguin, the T' aikabede, or chief, of the Tiguas, was celebrated Wednesday at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Mission. He died Friday at age 96. "With dignity and ...