Friday, September 20, 2002
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Tired of Norton's Indian trust lies
It's bad enough that Gale Norton and Neal McCaleb have been held in
contempt for misleading a federal court about efforts to reform the broken
Indian trust....
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In The Hoop: Winners, Losers
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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Court orders dismissal of Indian gaming suit
Arizona's Indian tribes won a vote of confidence on Thursday with a
federal appeals court decision affirming their right to negotiate casino
agreements free from outside interference....
Challenge could delay Seneca casino
A lawsuit in New York could delay the construction and opening of the
Seneca Nation's first off-reservation casino....
Navajo vendor center underway in Utah
The Navajo Nation and the states of Utah and Arizona are building a
vendor center for Navajo artisans....
Alaska mine target of $60 million suit
Making good on an earlier threat, the residents of an Eskimo village in
Alaska sued the operators of the world's largest zinc mine....
Native village fire quickly contained
A fire in the Inupiat Eskimo village of Shungnak, Alaska, destroyed two
lodges before being contained on Monday....
Okla. tribe provides new housing
The Sac and Fox Nation of Oklahoma has a waiting list for people to move
into a housing development....
Wash. tribe moves ahead with dam lawsuit
The Yakama Nation of Washington wants a federal judge to throw out a
repair project for a federal dam....
Wis. judge allows casino compact suit
A Wisconsin state appeals court reinstated a lawsuit challenging tribal
gaming compacts....
Senate to consider recognition rider
The Senate may vote today on a measure to suspend all federal
recognition decisions pending reform of the system....
Minn. tribal member wins business award
A member of the Red Lake Nation of Minnesota has been awarded the
Minnesota Minority Small Business Person of 2002 by the Small Business
Administration....
Five Civilized land bill criticized
Two Oklahoma tribes are worried a land bill pending in Congress will
subject them to the whims of the Cherokee Nation....
Mont. tribe worried about train deaths
The Fort Peck Tribes of Montana and a community group held a forum to
address pedestrian train fatalities on the reservation....
Tribal member opposes death penalty
Ron Volesky, a member of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and a Democratic
candidate for South Dakota attorney general, opposes the death penalty....
Man found dead at N.M. Indian schoo
The FBI and the Bureau of Indian Affairs are investigating the death of a
man whose body was found at the Santa Fe Indian School in New Mexico....
Tribes tapped for gaming conference
With Indian casinos generating $12.7 billion in revenues, tribes are being
sought out by the greater gaming industry....
Bill to recognize Duwamish Tribe
Representative Jim McDermott (D-Wash) plans to introduce a bill to recognize the
Duwamish Tribe of Washington....
Bush panel will look at tribal laws
President Bush issued an executive order on Wednesday to speed on
environmental review of major transportation projects....
Research focuses on Indian radio
A German anthropologist spent two years researching Indian media,
focusing on the KLND, the radio station serving the Standing Rock Sioux
and Cheyenne River Sioux reservations in North and South Dakota....
Tribal member elected to county seat
A resident of the Fort Belknap Reservation and a member of the Flathead
Nation is the unofficial winner of a county commission seat in Montana....
Terminated tribe seeks status again
The Strawberry Valley Band of Pakan'yani Maidu Indians was terminated
in 1961 and is seeking to regain its federal status....
Crow to consider chairman election
A new election will be held to choose a new chairman for the Crow Tribe of
Montana....
Harjo: WSJ 'chickenhawks' want Indian war
"The Wall Street Journal, once again, has used its editorial pages to
decree who the Indians are and are not, and what Congress should do
about that.
In the year since 9/11, the newspaper has made a practice of attacking
Indians....
Ariz. race tracks want rehearing
The race track industry plans to ask for a rehearing of a case challenging
the validity of tribal gaming compacts....
Editorial: Norton's trust boondoggle
"Accounting boondoggles are not limited to the private sector....
McCaleb blames trust fund on Babbitt
Assistant Secretary Neal McCaleb says he and Secretary of Interior Gale
Norton were held in contempt for actions during the Clinton
administration....
Norton: Veto bill if no ANWR drilling
Secretary of Interior Gale Norton wants the White House to veto an
energy bill if it doesn't allow oil and gas drilling in the Arctic National
Wildlife Refuge....
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