California Indian gaming activist dies at 76

— Posted on January 5, 2007   

 Art Welmas led the Cabazon Band of Mission Indians to a landmark Supreme Court verdict supporting native gaming rights in the 1980s. He died Dec. 17 at the age of 76 at an Escondido hospital near the Rincon Indian Reservation. A funeral service and wake were held at his family plot ...

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