Thursday, February 27, 2003

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A Senate panel on Wednesday failed to advance the nomination of Ross Swimmer as Special Trustee at the Department of Interior, the first time in recent history that an Indian affairs position has been delayed....

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The Bush administration doesn't anticipate returning to settlement talks with the plaintiffs in the long-running trust fund lawsuit, Secretary of Interior Gale Norton said on Wednesday....

Connecticut's two senators introduced a bill to reform the Bureau of Indian Affairs' federal recognition process....

The Forest County Potawatomi Tribe of Wisconsin began running a 60-second radio commercial on Wednesday to promote a new gaming agreement with the state....

The Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin is finalizing a new casino compact with Governor Jim Doyle (D), the Associated Press reports....

The Nebraska Legislature on Wednesday began floor debate on two constitutional amendments to expand gaming in the state....

The state of Hawaii has opened an Office of Hawaiian Affairs in Washington, D.C., Judy Sarasohn of The Washington Post reports....

The Alaska Legislature is moving to spend $1.1 million on efforts to open up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil development....

FBI continues to search for a Navajo man whom tribal police say reported the deaths of two brothers on the Navajo Nation in New Mexico....

The trial of a man accused of raping and murder of an Alaska Native woman continued on Wednesday....

The Bureau of Reclamation is moving to reduce water for farmers on the Navajo Nation in New Mexico....

With negotiations over new gaming compacts set to begin next month, a group of city and county governments want their issues to be addressed....

Tribes in Connecticut are "overheated" in their fight to protect Indian rights, The Norwich Bulletin says in an editorial today....

"Senator Elizabeth Dole proposed a bill last Friday that would give the Lumbee Indian tribe full recognition -- including benefits such as money for economic development, housing, education and health care....

Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell (R-Colorado) paid his wife $10,000 and his daughter-in-law at least $4,200 a year for working on his election campaign, The Farmington Daily Times reports....

Idaho tribes scored another victory on Wednesday with the defeat of a bill to tax cigarette sales on reservations....

A bill to restore full criminal and civil jurisdiction to tribal governments could take years to pass, Jodi Rave Lee of The Lincoln Journal Star reports....

A report the FBI released in hopes of squashing rumors about dozens of deaths on or near the Pine Ridge Reservation of South Dakota still has some skeptical....

Fred Rogers of the PBS children's show "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood" died of cancer early today....

The Department of Interior says Ross Swimmer is ready to resolve lingering concerns about his nomination as Special Trustee....

American Indian lawmakers in Montana helped defeat a proposed change to the state's hate crimes law....
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