Thursday, February 28, 2002

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A proposed reorganization of the Indian Health Service has drawn growing concern from tribal leaders, who asked this week to be included in reforming a system they agree has numerous problems....

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Assistant Secretary Neal McCaleb sometimes gets into trouble with the words he uses....

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A senior Bureau of Indian Affairs official who has played a central role in the dispute over fixing the Indian trust fund is leaving her post, Assistant Secretary Neal McCaleb announced on Wednesday. McCaleb told tribal leaders in Washington, D.C., that Deputy Commissioner for Indian Affairs Sharon Blackwell will retire this summer....

Like the state's governor, Louisiana Attorney General Richard Ieyoub seemed to have found an easy entry into Secretary of Interior Gale Norton's date book....

The newly promoted captain of the Shiprock Department of Criminal Investigation said he wants to have New Mexico police officers to have police powers on his part of the Navajo Nation....

Bruce Meyers resigned last week as coordinator for Montana's Office of Indian Affairs, citing his diabetes and health and family issues....

Two Oregon school districts are holding a pow-wow on Saturday to brings students and their families together....

"Have you read the governor's newly proposed subsistence amendment for our Alaska Constitution (House Joint Resolution 41)? If not, did you know that most Alaskans are subsistence "have-nots"? We "have-not" any subsistence tradition....

In what could be a repeat of the Oneida land settlement that has fallen apart, the state of New York has approached one of the parties in the St. Regis Mohawk land claim....

A federal judge has ordered the Department of Energy to release over 7,500 pages of documents used in the formation of the President's national energy policy....

The Oneida Nation of New York hasn't made a decision on a grant program that has given $3.1 million to local schools....

Following a nationwide trend, two Maine tribes are pushing a casino as a way of meeting the state's budget woes....

Three Arizona tribes competing for the right to host a new Arizona Cardinals football stadium might have to waive their sovereign immunity as part of the deal....

The state of Connecticut has again asked its Congressional delegation for help in locating the map used to settle the land claims of the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation....

The treasurer of the Red Lake Ojibwe Tribe of Minnesota has resigned from his post but tribal members have decided to try and recall him anyway....

Kaktovik Inupiat Corp., a village corporation representing the Inupiat Eskimo community that supports drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, wants funding to an anti-development group stopped....

Congressional candidate Jeff Benedict on Wednesday denied criticism that he is a one issue candidate despite all his media coverage focusing on his push to terminate the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation of Connecticut....

They say cats have nine lives and if so, a proposed kitty litter mine in Nevada has eight more chances to go before it is out for the count....

"The brouhaha at West Seattle High School can be summed up with a phrase educators love: a teaching moment. The lesson centers on issues of race, cultural sensitivity and our painful history with Native Americans....

Citizen Potawatomi Nation of Oklahoma Chairman John A....

An Associated Press analysis of the Indian Health Service has found numerous shortcomings that have long been known in Indian Country....

Citing unresolved issues, the director of the Institute of American Indian Arts Museum in Santa Fe, New Mexico, left her post on Wednesday....

A large crowd turned out to a meeting on Wednesday to discuss a proposed landfill opponents fear would damage Indian burial grounds....

"Bless The People — Harmonized Peyote Songs" by Verdell Primeaux and Johnny Mike won the Grammy on Wednesday night for the Best Native American Recording....

President Bush on Wednesday expressed concern tribes would be able to exploit a "loophole" in the campaign finance reform bill currently stalled in the Senate, the Associated Press reports....

Always controversial, Citizen Potawatomi Nation Chairman John A. "Rocky" Barrett Jr....

Tribal leaders in Oklahoma are holding a public forum next week to update Indian beneficiaries about the Cobell litigation and efforts to reorganize the Bureau of Indian Affairs....

The Department of Interior said on Wednesday it anticipates non-Indian farmers in the Klamath Basin will receive the water they were denied last year....
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