Monday, January 14, 2002

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Secretary of Interior Gale Norton's contempt trial resumes today in federal court with attorneys representing 300,000 American Indian beneficiaries beginning their cross-examination of a senior government official....

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It took two trips to a federal appeals court but San Juan Pueblo of New Mexico has again prevailed in its fight to enact its own labor laws....

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Contempt trial against Secretary Gale Norton resumes, Internet-related shutdown at Interior continues, consultation of Indian Country moves along, Native artists get nominated, and nuclear site chosen....

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In what environmentalists are calling a suppression of science in favor of industry interests, Secretary of Interior Gale Norton failed to submit highly critical comments one of her agencies drafted in response to a major environmental regulation plan, The Washington Post reports today....

"I open the fridge and, invariably, something resembling an item formerly known as food, or a small mammal in a baggie, drops to the floor, scaring the holy crap outta me....

Arthur Andersen, the auditing firm which performed an accounting of tribal assets for the Department of Interior in the 90s, has become a central part of the unfolding Enron scandal due to a strikingly similarity to the trust fund debacle: destroyed documents....

With the Enron scandal going into full-gear, the debate over investigations into how the Bush administration was connected to failed company is turning out, as usual, a politically touchy issue....

The Seneca Nation tribal council on Saturday approved a gaming compact with the state of New York, moving it closer to final acceptance by tribal members....

The recently created Legislature of the Crow Tribe of Montana is getting to work this week after members held organizational meetings....

Eileen Mattingly: "One doesn't have to be Native American to be offended -- I wince every time I hear [Redskins]." William G....

A man from the Salish First Nation of British Columbia, Canada, was sentenced to two years in prison for violating federal eagle protection laws....

Is that rumble in your stomach caused by dairy products you ate? Or are your bowels just irritable? A DNA test might clear the answer up....

"After the big snowstorm in October, when most of us thought we were in for a long, cold and snowy winter, a Native friend of mine disagreed....

An amendment to allow casino-style gaming on Nebraska's reservations has little chance of clearing the state Legislature, according to an Associated Press pre-session poll of lawmakers....

A local statute which limited licenses for urban casinos in Michigan to two companies violated the Constitution, a federal appeals court ruled on Friday....

In the latest battle over federal recognition and the riches it may bring, Samuel Dixon Jr....

Rebels of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) have agreed to withdraw from five towns inside a large territory of southwestern Colombia after three years of talks with President Andres Pastrana failed....

A judge in Arizona has temporarily halted the bulldozing of 870-year-old Hohokam ruins in north Phoenix....

At age 101....

A 3-year-old boy is in good condition after surviving a night in Alberta, Canada, in zero-degree temperature....

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's Language Technologies Institute are helping indigenous people in North and South America preserve their languages by developing computer translation programs....

Jim Shore, general counsel to the Seminole Tribe of Florida, remains in critical condition after being shot last week in his home....

The state of Oklahoma and two tribes announced on Friday that negotiations over the sale of water to Texas have been terminated....

Rep Joe Skeen (R-N.M.), the chairman of the House subcommittee which oversees funding for the Department of Interior, is retiring, he announced on Friday....

Native inmates in Montana make up 20 percent of the state prison population even though American Indians are just 6.2 percent of the general population....

A year after she was nominated to head the Department of Interior, people are still wondering just who exactly is Gale Norton....

Sen Pete Domenici (R-N.M.) plans to send a terse letter to Secretary of Interior Gale Norton regarding her failure to make millions of dollars in royalty payments to Indian Country, an aide told angry Navajo tribal members on Friday....

"Redskins" honors Native people and isn't derogatory, The Washington Times writes in an editorial, responding to a resolution passed requesting that the football team drop its name....
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