Wednesday, February 27, 2002

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The deputy commissioner of Bureau of Indian Affairs leaving her post, Assistant Secretary Neal McCaleb announced this morning....

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Tribal leaders and their advocates have drafted an ambitious and far-reaching legislative proposal aimed at restoring full criminal and civil jurisdiction over Indian lands in response to Supreme Court decisions that have slowly chipped away at treaties and sovereignty....

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In The Hoop has heard that a certain government agency is looking for a new official....

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A senior Department of Interior official on Tuesday acknowledged Secretary Gale Norton's proposal to create a new Indian trust agency lacks the details tribal leaders say are necessary for meaningful consultation....

The Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation of Connecticut is once again the biggest taxpayer in the town of North Stonington....

Three Connecticut towns haven't finished discussing the federal recognition bids of two Pequot tribes and will hold a press conference tomorrow to release more documents and information....

The Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation withdrew its land-into-trust application to try and smooth over relations with three Connecticut towns, a tribal council member said....

"To prove that there's nothing new under the sun, the story of White Clay, Neb., whiskey peddlers selling alcoholic beverages to the Indians from South Dakota's Pine Ridge Reservation is just a continuation of a story that began back in the 1800s....

In an editorial today, The Sioux Falls Argus Leader says it is looking forward to a study addressing racial inequities in the South Dakota justice system....

The Hualapai Tribe of Arizona is opposing plans to build two helicopter pads next to its reservation....

Members of Alaska's Congressional delegation want the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge opened to oil and gas development but they want it all, not just parts....

The Penobscot Nation and the Passamaquoddy Tribe of Maine are discussing opening casino in the state....

Cree leaders in Canada recently signed a $3.4 billion economic development and self-determination agreement in exchange for dropping land claims of similar value....

The General Accounting Office last week filed a lawsuit seeking to force the White House to disclose information about the energy task force Vice President Dick Cheney chaired....

The Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee held a hearing on Tuesday to consider the nomination of a conservative African-American lawyer for a civil rights post....

The Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on Tuesday to consider the nomination of Brooks Smith to the federal bench....

Tribes seem to have trouble getting a meeting with Secretary of Interior Gale Norton but Louisiana Gov....

Republican foes of the campaign finance reform bill on Tuesday said they wouldn't try to block its immediate passage in the Senate....

With 178 stores in Alaska and Canada, including the Inuit province of Nunavut, the North West Company has long held a presence in Native communities....

A large group of Navajo tribal members has issued a set of demands to the Navajo Nation council but wants to get many delegates out of office anyway....

Haskell Indian Nations University and adjacent wetlands where graves of former students have been located could be placed on the National Register of Historic Places....

Private landowners being sued by the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin have hired the law firm of White & Case to defend themselves, an expense being picked up by the state of New York....

The Grammy awards ceremony will air tonight at on your local CBS affiliate....

A county commission in Nevada narrowly voted to refuse a permit to a company that wants to operate a 24-hour, 7-day-a-week kitty litter mine and plant....

Supreme Court Justice Steven Breyer gave a well-received speech at the National Congress of American Indians in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday....

Funding for an Indian museum in Oklahoma is being held up in the Senate....

A member of the Crow Tribe of Montana has been picked to the All-USA College Academic Team by USA Today....

The Quapaw Tribe of Oklahoma has filed a lawsuit against the Bureau of Indian Affairs, seeking an accounting of tribal trust assets....

About 200 people piled into a large Senate hearing room on Tuesday to hear the latest drama in the ongoing trust fund debacle....

Representative Nick Rahall (D-W.Va.) discussed energy legislation and other Indian issues before the National Congress of American Indians in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday....
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