Wednesday, June 26, 2002

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Montana cannot tax Indian-owned businesses located on reservations, the state Supreme Court ruled last week....

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A federal judge on Tuesday sided with the state of Texas and ordered the Alabama-Coushatta Tribe to shut down its casino....

A fire which started on the White Mountain Apache Reservation has grown to the size of Los Angeles....

Research published in this week's issue of Psychological Bulletin suggests that spanking children is not good for them....

A Connecticut town doesn't want its old people to go on casino trips....

The Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation of Arizona still wants a chance to host a $350 million football stadium....

A federal jury on Tuesday convicted a Montana man for a death on the Crow Reservation....

A 16-year-old member of the Crow Tribe of Montana has his artwork on display at the U.S....

Two members of the Northern Arapaho Tribe of Wyoming are seeking state office....

The FBI is investigating Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Christie Whitman, The Denver Post reports today....

A federal law designed to prevent the purchase of guns by domestic abusers hasn't always worked, The Washington Post reports today....

A federal grand jury this week indicted the Seminole Tribe of Florida's former top administrator, a disgraced cop described by associates and others as belligerent and ruthless....

Employees fired by the Crow Tribe of Montana are trying to find a court who will hear their claims....

The Crow Tribe of Montana has signed an exploration drilling deal with a Colorado company....

Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.) told a Washington newspaper that he doesn't understand why using Indian names and symbols for fake ceremonies might be offensive....

One Nipmuc tribe in Massachusetts is working to reverse a negative decision on its federal recognition request....

The New London Day in an editorial today says the Bureau of Indian Affairs' decision to recognize the Eastern Pequot Tribe of Connecticut is "strange." The paper cites dissent among factions of the tribe and McCaleb's decision to recognize the two groups as one entity as potentially troublesome....

State and local officials in Connecticut plan to appeal a decision to recognize the Eastern Pequot Tribe....

Although a three-hundred year relationship with the state of Connecticut played an important factor, "significant" evidence uncovered by two Pequot tribes bolstered their bid for federal recognition, according to Bureau of Indian Affairs documents released yesterday....

A man from an Inupiat Eskimo village in Alaska died in police custody on Tuesday....