Friday, April 19, 2002

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Some of Indian Country's strongest advocates voted on Thursday to support efforts to open up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas development....

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Is it Friday already? That means it's time for the weekly list of the movers and shakers in Indian Country and beyond....

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A federal judge on Thursday halted the pending transfer of 32,000 boxes of Indian trust records, expressing concern about their safety in the wake of a highly critical court investigation....

Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal has filed documents with the Bureau of Indian Affairs challenging the Schaghticoke Tribal Nation....

The Department of Justice on Thursday withdrew its offer to settle federal obstruction of justice charges against accounting firm Arthur Andersen....

A tribe recognized by the state of New York has proposed to build a high-stakes bingo hall in the Catskills....

The General Accounting Office has confirmed $14,000 worth of damages to the White House by former Clinton administration staffers, The Washington Times reports....

Under a 1944 treaty, the United States and Mexico are to exchange water to meet each other's needs....

The Mescalero Apache Nation of New Mexico has finalized an agreement over the management of the Mexican spotted owl....

A provision in the farm bill under debate in the Senate could lead to the slaughter of more bison in Yellowstone National Park, according to critics....

Protesters have been barred from entering an Indian health clinic in Minnesota....

The family of a 70-year-old man who died at a nursing home owned by the Blackfeet Nation of Montana is planning legal action in the case....

A Wisconsin high school has dropped its 100-year-old "Indians" mascot....

Rick West, the director of the National Museum of the American Indian, spoke at a historic preservation conference on Thursday....

President Bush on Thursday made his first public remarks on the temporary ouster of Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez....

Members of an activist group protesting the sale of liquor to American Indians were cited for drinking beer at a public hearing in Nebraska on Thursday....

Three Oklahoma tribes are asking Congress to finalize a $50 million settlement for land and trust assets along the Arkansas River bed....

Sandia Pueblo in New Mexico is seeking the support of a local county for its unresolved land claim....

The Department of Interior is moving to open up drilling in the Rocky Mountains....

By rejecting an attempt to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas drilling, the Senate has handed President Bush a stunning defeat, the analysts are saying....

Senator Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) is planning on introducing a measure to allow Inupiat Eskimos to drill on land they own in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge....

A jury in New Mexico on Thursday convicted a man of first-degree murder charges for stabbing a Navajo woman to death....

A federal judge on Thursday issued a temporary restraining order against the Department of Interior to protect records belonging to American Indians....

The White House is looking into allegations that a former business partner of Wayne Smith, the deputy to Assistant Secretary Neal McCaleb, is exploiting his ties to get lobbying work, Al Kamen of The Washington Post reports today....

A federal judge in Utah has upheld a National Park Service policy aimed at protecting the Rainbow Bridge, considered sacred by a number of tribes....

Fannie Mae has altered its mortgaging policies for homes on trust land....