Early last august, Portland, Oregon's newest park was about to debut. Already the buzz was that the park was very different. Through street-side fencing that would disappear at its public opening, residents had been following the construction of what was originally tagged "the wetland park." ...
In exchange, the tribes got government services, fishing rights and a 640,000-acre reservation, Oregon's largest, that begins about 65 miles east of Portland. And now, many here hope the Warm Springs tribes will be permitted to build an off-reservation casino on a sliver of the land they...