Monday, April 29, 2002

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Tribal complaints have prompted the nation's Indian gaming regulators to reopen debate on a controversial rewrite of casino rules....

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The Supreme Court takes its first Indian law case of the term, Congress hears debate over a long-running Pueblo land claim and trust fund problems mount for the Bush administration....

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The Environmental Protection Agency is planning to tie cancer-causing chemicals to the consumption of everyday food products, according to a Congressional report released on Friday....


Tribes will be helping decide where the Native American Bank will open additional branches....


Federally recognized tribes can now register their own .gov Internet domain....


The New Mexico Supreme Court on Friday ruled that the tribes are immune from damage lawsuits for incidents that allegedly occurred prior to 1997....


Board members of Cook Inlet Region Inc., an Alaska Native regional corporation, voted on Friday to keep Carl Marrs as CEO....


"I cannot BELIEVE the amount of letters I received after last week's dissertation (i.e., my rantings and ravings) about Christopher Columbus, and about our educational system's disenchanting perpetuation of the hero-myth surrounding the man's supposed "discovery" of America....


The Miami Nation of Oklahoma threatened a land claims lawsuit to the mayor of Gary, Indiana, The Chicago Tribune reports today....


The Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation of Connecticut made more political donations during the 2000 presidential campaign than any other tribe in the country, according to The Norwich Bulletin....


On alert 24 hours a day, the fire department of the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation responds to calls on and off the Connecticut reservation....


The Bureau of Indian Affair's Office of Indian Education Programs is hosting a National Special Arts Festival this week in Oklahoma....


Homes on the Blackfeet Reservation are being studied by various federal agencies for environmental and health problems....


The sexual abuse crisis in the Catholic Church has The Washington Post looking to Canada for insight....


Descendants of Choctaws who refused to be removed to Oklahoma, the Mississippi Band of Choctaws have grown to be one of the most financially successful tribes in the nation....


Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Christie Whitman didn't benefit from a Superfund cleanup deal because she wasn't a member of the Bush administration when the agreement was made, her spokesperson told the Denver Post....


The state of Kansas is still unable to substantiate claims that hundreds of Native children are buried in wetlands near Haskell Indian Nations University....


A Bureau of Indian Affairs employee who pleaded guilty the murders of four people told his supervisor of his alcohol-related driving record....


A central part of the Sand Creek Massacre site was deeded to the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma on Sunday....


Zuni Pueblo in New Mexico temporarily closed a highway on its reservation to all traffic....


The 19th annual Gathering of Nations Pow-Wow was held this past weekend in Albuquerque, New Mexico....


The Chickasaw Nation of Oklahoma is moving the campus of its boarding school....

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