Thursday, November 14, 2002

Featured Story


Department of Interior officials came "perilously close" to criminal contempt sanctions for refusing to abide by court orders, the federal judge overseeing the trust fund debacle has ruled....

Featured Story


The 59th annual session of the National Congress of American Indians is winding down here in San Diego, California....

The Republican party elected its new Congressional leadership on Wednesday but there were few major surprises....

The Oklahoma City Indian Clinic has a diabetes program that has from from 138 patients six years ago to than 1,000 participants today....

The Reverend Harold Jones, the first Native American bishop, died in Arizona on Tuesday....

The 27th annual American Indian Film Festival kicked off this past weekend in San Francisco, California....

The police chief in Duluth, Minnesota, is joining the Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College on the Fond du Lac Reservation....

Three Alaska Native corporations whose investment in a federal wireless auction is the subject of Supreme Court case will receive a $233 million refund....

An Methodist minister who is part of the Oklahoma Indian Missionary Conference is accused of 'first-degree rape of a teenage girl....

The Northern Arapaho Tribe of Wyoming can operate slot machines and other Class III games, a federal mediator has ruled....

A federal appeals court in Mexico on Tuesday upheld the prison sentences of 18 non-Indian farmers who massacred an Indian village in Chiapas....

Senator Tim Johnson's (D-South Dakota) narrow victory over Republican John Thune was complete on Wednesday....

An Oklahoma racetrack is blaming its financial problems on Indian gaming....

Connecticut's two tribal casinos draw a large number of out-of-state tourists, according to a new survey....

The House on Wednesday approved a continuing resolution to keep funding for federal agencies at the current level....

The Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute of New Mexico has named Joseph Martin, a member of the Navajo Nation, as its new president....

The House on Wednesday passed legislation to create a Department of Homeland Security....

"Who is a Native and who is not has been a question the bureaucracy has kicked from pillar to post for more than 100 years....

A federal judge on Wednesday dismissed charges against a non-Indian man accused of conspiring to steal funds from the Crow Tribe of Montana....

The fire fighting team of the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation of Kansas has been called on to fight fires throughout the country....

A White House-ordered review of the Klamath Basin that restored water to non-Indian farmers has been criticized as politically influenced and without sound scientific backing....

Joe Shirley, recently elected president of the Navajo Nation, wants to bring back the tribe's old style of government Shirley believes the three-branch government has hampered economic development....

"To own a casino is to be backed up to the loading dock of the federal mint....

The Senate on Wednesday approved a bill to distribute a $138 million trust fund to members of the Western Shoshone Nation....

The Bureau of Indian Affairs on Wednesday honored the last surviving Oklahoma tribal members who received original land allotments....

Secretary of Interior Gale Norton on Monday sent out her decision letter on the Seneca Nation gaming compact with the state of New York....

Trust reform, sacred sites, veterans and health care are a few of the issues on the agenda for the 59th annual session of the National Congress of American Indians....

A majority of members of the Fort Belknap Tribes of Montana voted against a takeover of trust services from the Bureau of Indian Affairs....

The federal judge overseeing the Indian trust fund debacle has awarded more than $120,000 in fees to the Cobell plaintiffs for frivolous motions filed by the federal government....

The fate of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and Indian Country development will be in Republican hands next year with the breakdown of talks over an energy policy bill....

The Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma is developing a new Class II casino on 33 acres of trust land....
Stay Connected
Search
Trending in News
1 White House Council on Native American Affairs meets quick demise under Donald Trump
2 'A process of reconnecting': Young Lakota actor finds ways to stay tied to tribal culture
3 Jenni Monet: Bureau of Indian Affairs officer on leave after fatal shooting of Brandon Laducer
4 'A disgraceful insult': Joe Biden campaign calls out Navajo leader for Republican speech
5 Kaiser Health News: Sisters from Navajo Nation died after helping coronavirus patients
News Archive
2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000