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Native Americans

May 26, 2006

Tribal Immunity Stacks Deck Against Workers

LOS ANGELES - For Corinn Medina, walking into Thunder Valley Casino to work the late shift was like entering a virtual den of inequity.

By Leslie Simmons
Daily Journal Staff Writer

      LOS ANGELES - For Corinn Medina, walking into Thunder Valley Casino to work the late shift was like entering a virtual den of inequity.
      Medina, then 21, was required to strut around in the Sierra foothills casino's costume du jour: a skimpy front-zipping top and pleather hot pants, fishnet stockings and 6-to-8-inch go-go bo...

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