Thursday, April 11, 2002
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Norton treads uncharted waters over remains
Secretary of Interior Gale Norton might be forced into deciding who owns
a set of 10,000-year-old human remains an independent review panel
said should go to a Nevada tribe....
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Responses filed to court monitor request
The Department of Interior and the Cobell plaintiffs today filed their
responses to a proposed extension of court monitor Joseph S....
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ANWR estimates go up thanks to Hussein
The White House on Wednesday made an urgent pitch to open up the
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling, saying Saddam Hussein of Iraq
was moving to cut off his supply of oil to the U.S....
Wyo. gaming goes to mediator
A federal judge on Wednesday ordered mediation between the state of
Wyoming and the Northern Arapaho Tribe....
Flap over addition of Indian day
A proposal to replace Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday and Columbus Day
with holidays for Veterans Day and Indian Cultural Day is raising flak in
New Mexico....
Mont. gets hold of coal tracts
Representatives of the Northern Cheyenne Tribe were on hand
Wednesday for the official transfer of coal tracts to the state of Montana.
A member of the tribal council and a tribal elder expressed hope that
that development of the highly lucrative Otter Coal Tracts would benefit
the local community and be done in a culturally sensitive way....
DOE limited its consultation
The Department of Energy on Wednesday released 950 pages of
documents related to President Bush's national energy task force....
Superfund cuts and costs blasted
A Senate Environment and Public Works subcommittee on Wednesday
held an oversight hearing on the Superfund program....
Pequot drug court ready for use
The Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation of Connecticut has established its
own drug court....
R.I. study could have wide impact
As part of a casino study approved in Rhode Island, local laws will be
examined....
Kitty litter liked by some at DOI
The Chicago company hoping to start a kitty litter plant on land next to a
Nevada reservation might get a chuckle knowing that some people at the
Department of Interior support the product....
Bush pushes for cloning ban
President Bush on Wednesday called on the Senate to ban all types of
human cloning....
Campaign finance survives House test
The House on Wednesday rejected a Republican-led attempt to scuttle
reforms brought about the campaign finance reform bill....
Ridge makes first briefing
Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge on Wednesday held his first
Congressional briefing....
Bill to send Ariz. stadium back
The Arizona House on Wednesday approved a bill affecting a proposed
$350 million Arizona Cardinals football stadium....
Man fights Pequot tribal court
A non-Indian man is asking a federal court to award him $158,000 for
what he claims was a lost jackpot at the casino owned by the
Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation of Connecticut....
Andersen reported close to guilty plea
Arthur Andersen is near entering a guilty plea for destroying documents
related to the fall of Enron, The New York Times reports today....
Commentary: Cuts hurt Native community
"The recent P-I article about the imminent loss of two Native American
outreach workers at DSHS was right on target, except where it
perpetuated the invisibility of Native people who live in the margins of
our urban areas....
Navajo takeover of IHS tabled
The Navajo Nation Council on Tuesday tabled a proposal to take over
health contracting from the Indian Health Service....
Witnesses testify in Navajo murder trial
Testimony in the trial of a New Mexico man charged with murdering a
Navajo mother continued on Wednesday....
Yucca Mountain water shut off
The state of Nevada on Wednesday shut
off water to the Yucca Mountain nuclear
waste project....
Bill to compensate for loss of land
The House Resources Committee next week will hold a hearing on a bill
to compensate three Oklahoma for the loss of land on the Arkansas
River....
Crash threat cited to Goshute facility
The Atomic Safety and Licensing Board is considering whether jet
crashes might be a threat to a nuclear waste facility on the Skull Valley
Goshute Reservation in Utah....
ANWR debate about procedures
Senate Republicans on Wednesday tried to force debate on drilling in the
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge....
Tribute to Mohawk ironworkers set
The National Museum of the American Indian in New York City this month
will hold a special tribute to honor the Mohawk men who helped build the
now fallen World Trade Center complex....
Cop demoted for dishonorable conduct
A non-Native police offer in Ontario, Canada, was demoted on
Wednesday for distributing a picture of an injured Aboriginal man on the
Internet....
Fight expected over gas taxes
The courts may end up deciding whether the Winnebago Tribe of
Nebraska owes gas taxes for distributing oil to fellow tribes....
Film to document Sand Creek Massacre
Colorado filmmaker Don Vasicek is planning a documentary of the Sand
Creek Massacre....
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