Friday, September 27, 2002

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Indian Country, are you ready for round two? The son of BITAM, that disastrous proposal to fix the broken Indian trust, is coming your way around January 6, 2003....

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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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Department of Interior officials on Thursday announced their intent to more forward with critical changes in the management of Indian trust assets without the consent of tribal leaders....

Navajo Nation vice-presidential candidate Frank Dayish helped arrange for a Navajo woman's home, destroyed by fire, to be rebuilt....

A House subcommittee held a hearing on Wednesday to address unresolved discrimination problems at the Department of Agriculture....

Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee bashed President Bush's nominee for a federal court appeals position....

The Golden Hill Paugussett Tribe of Connecticut is challenging a study which claims a casino will create traffic problems....

A Kansas county commission endorsed plans for a highway expansion that runs through land considered sacred to Haskell Indian Nations University....

The House Resources Committee on Wednesday held a hearing on a bill to extend federal recognition to six Virginia tribes....

Republican members on the joint House-Senate energy policy conference committee proposed what is termed a "compromise" to allow drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge....

Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell (R-Colorado) has introduced legislation to grant permanent United States residency to a Mexican national who entered the country illegally....

"[A] new dawn is breaking on Amerindia's horizon....

Opponents of tribes in Connecticut are accusing Senator Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii) and the Senate Indian Affairs Committee of a conflict of interest....

The state of Connecticut and three towns on Thursday appealed Assistant Secretary Neal McCaleb's decision to recognize the historic Eastern Pequot Tribe....

The Seneca Nation of New York is waiting on two casino-related approvals from the Bureau of Indian Affairs....

Department of Justice prosecutors "mistakenly" gave 48 classified documents to the only person charged in connection with the September 11 terrorist attacks, The New York Times reports today....

Haskell Indian Nations University held the first of monthly meetings with students on Thursday....

Biologists with the Yurok and Hoopa tribes in northern California estimate that 30,000 salmon have died in the Klamath River....

Members of the Quechan Nation of California and Arizona are wrapping up a 700-mile run in support of their most sacred site....

Stephen Hunter of The Washington Post reviews "Skins," director Chris Eyre's latest film, and calls it an accurate picture of the ills "that haunt any defeated culture." "Skins" tells the story of two brothers whose lives seem rather different. Rudy (Eric Schweig) is a police officer while Mogie (Graham Greene) is an alcoholic veteran....

Senator Jim Inhofe (R-Oklahome) has placed a hold on a bill to change how allotments belonging to members of the Five Civilized Nations are handled....

Four Pacific Northwest tribes who count the 9,000-year-old remains of a Native man as their ancestor are seeking to appeal a court decision that allows him to be studied....

Senator John McCain (R-Arizona) was critical of the Department of Interior at a Senate hearing on Indian trust this week....

The nation's largest inter-tribal organization criticized the Bush administration's draft legislation to take "unclaimed" Indian land....

The Bush administration, backed by Republicans in Congress, is challenging about $2 million in legal fees collected and owed to court investigators in the Individual Indian Money (IIM) class action....

"Why rely on a fly-by-night company for your deception and fraud needs? We have a proven track record of lying and concealment! Our record of robbing the poor and working class of billions speaks for itself! We're the U.S....

A California state commission sued the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians on Thursday to force compliance with a state campaign finance law....
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