Wednesday, May 29, 2002

Featured Story


An Idaho court on Tuesday refused to overturn the criminal convictions of three men who claimed protection under a 19th century treaty....

Featured Story


Tribal leaders (and your lobbyists), you have exactly one extra day to submit your views to the National Indian Gaming Commission on some proposed regulations....

Featured Story


Besieged with criticism, the court official watching over the Indian trust on Tuesday said he would refer the Bush administration's attempts to hamper his investigation to a federal judge....

Biodiesel fuels smell like french fries and can make you hungry, according to Deyo Paddyaker, a member of the Comanche Tribe and chief executive of Prime Oil, an Oklahoma firm promoting alternative energy sources....

The Georgia Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld a state law ban on video poker machines....

Authorities in Washington have yet to assign a motive for two men and one teenager who were found stabbed to death outside the Muckleshoot Casino....

The Rhode Island Senate on Tuesday passed a referendum that puts the Narragansett Tribe's casino on the November ballot....

The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to decide whether cross-burning is considered free speech....

The Supreme Court on Tuesday cleared the way for the state of Tennessee to execute a man who claimed he was the victim of bad lawyering....

The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that states cannot be forced to answer to federal agency judicial proceedings unless they wave sovereign immunity....

Authorities in Minnesota have charged a man in the death of a girl found on the White Earth Indian Reservation....

Divers in Montana were searching for the body of a Rocky Boy's tribal police officer who drowned while on a rescue attempt....

Flush with gaming profits, the Oneida Nation of New York has set its sights on the media and entertainment world....

The California Assembly on Tuesday killed a measure that would have banned all Indian mascots in the state....

Almost every participant in a candidates forum held in Maine on Tuesday night said they opposed gaming in their state....

Dreams inspired Gerry Quotskuyva, a member of the Hopi Tribe of Arizona, to take up the carving of katsina dolls....

A former school official can be sued for actions regarding the Chief Illiniwek mascot of the University of Illinois, a federal judge ruled on Tuesday....

The Bureau of Land Management plans to auction 157 cattle seized from a Nevada tribe....

"So, it's come to this: Trailer-court gambling is on the horizon in downtown Kansas City, Kan. If you've been by Seventh Street and Ann Avenue lately, you know it's a hotbed of activity, with work proceeding at a feverish clip on a "Class II" casino, fashioned from what the Wyandotte Tribe of Oklahoma calls "mobile building units." Nice try on the euphemism....

A bill to allow Alaska Native veterans of the Vietnam War to receive allotments is being pushed again by Alaska's Congressional delegation....

The state of California is holding high-level talks over the potential listing of coho salmon as an endangered species but tribes haven't been invited, The Los Angeles Times reports....

Representative Jim Hansen (R-Utah), chairman of the House Resources Committee, added a provision to the $383 billion defense spending bill that would scuttle plans by Skull Valley Goshute Tribe to store nuclear waste on its reservation....

The Bureau of Indian Affairs has delayed its decisions on two Connecticut tribes, The Hartford Courant reports today....

The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to review the state of Nevada's attempt to draw water away from a lake on the Pyramid Lake Paiute Reservation....