Friday, July 26, 2002

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Nearly 20 Native American students in South Dakota who claim they were "terrorized" by drug-sniffing dogs filed suit on Thursday against a school board located near the Yankton Sioux Reservation....

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Special Trustee Tom Slonaker yesterday broke with the Department of Interior's silence on a controversial spending bill recently approved by the House....

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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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The Department of Interior's top Indian trust official won't endorse the Bush administration's controversial historical accounting proposal....

A training program in Oklahoma helps juvenile workers better serve and understand Native Americans youths in the justice system....

The Narragansett Tribe of Rhode Island is praising the delay of a vote to expand video slot machines at non-Indian gaming facilities....

Two Connecticut police detectives challenging the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation were accused in a 1995 break-in on the tribe's reservation....

The Senate Indian Affairs Committee will hold a hearing to codify existing federal recognition regulations into law....

Brian Burns is the new chief information officer for the Bureau of Indian Affairs....

Attempts to expand the amount of nuclear waste stored next to the Prairie Island Reservation in Minnesota are meeting resistance from the tribe....

The To'hajiilee Chapter of the Navajo Nation plans to continue fighting for a casino on its land in New Mexico....

Gerald "Butch" Brun suffered a stroke last Friday, two days after he was elected chairman of the Red Lake Nation of Minnesota....

The Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas closed its casino at midnight on Thursday, putting more than 200 people out of work....

A member of the Confederated Colville Tribes of Washington was sentenced to 6 and one-half months for the rapes of two young griles on the reservation....

Leland Thomas comes to the Casa Grande Ruins National Monument in Arizona to work in the bookstore....

The Senate on Thursday confirmed 15 presidential nominees after the White House brokered a deal with Sen....

The New Mexico Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that federal land located near a Navajo Nation chapter house is not Indian Country....

The Apache Tribe of Oklahoma was in court on Thursday to try and reopen its disputed bingo hall....

"Many Americans have recently been introduced to the American Indian code talkers of World War II by the MGM epic, "Windtalkers." However, like the blind man who touched an elephant's trunk and described that animal as being long and tubular, the current vision of the code talkers is incomplete....

Alaska Native students are scoring higher on state reading, writing and math tests but large disparities remain....

The Shamattawa First Nation is still feeling the effects of three recent suicides....

Secretary of Interior Gale Norton was in Nevada on Thursday to visit a geothermal plant....

The Washington Supreme Court on Thursday said two Alaska Native children can continue living with their paternal Jewish grandmother....

The American Civil Liberties Union has filed two lawsuits on behalf of members of the Yankton Sioux Tribe that allege discrimination at a school near the South Dakota reservation....

Some Mexicans are upset over the Catholic Church's new depiction of the first Indian saint....
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