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In an odd twist to the president's "leave no child behind" policy, the Bush administration is balking at the notion it should repair a set of crumbling school buildings in Arizona....

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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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What is Lance Morgan, a member of the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska and head of the tribe's economic development corporation, doing alongside stars like Halle Berry, Denzel Washington and Julia Roberts? Being one of People's "crusaders." Featured in a special double issue of the magazine hitting the stands today, the 33-year-old Morgan gets a short but sweet two-page profile of his efforts to bring success to northeastern Nebraska. Past the big spread on the Oscar's, readers will find "Native Son," a description of how Ho-Chunk Inc....

A federal judge in Montana has sentenced a woman to 14 months in prison for a drunk driving accident on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation....

There's mounting tensions among Republicans in Congress and the White House, reports The New York Times, citing dissatisfaction voiced by GOP lawmakers and advisers to President Bush....

Army Secretary and former Enron executive Thomas White is the subject of an internal Department of Defense probe over his use of military aircraft....

President Bush on Thursday said he had a right to nominate conservative judges to the federal bench even if no one likes them....

The Seneca Nation and the state of New York have yet to finalize negotiations on three casinos....

"I wonder whether anyone else has noticed the discrepancies between the case of the Sisseton-Wahpeton teen being held in the Grant County Jail for allegedly assaulting police officers and the incident that occurred Nov....

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The law firm helping three Connecticut towns fight Pequot tribes has been retained by another group of municipalities worried about federal recognition and casinos....

The Bureau of Indian Affairs staff which researchers federal recognition petitions did not formally object to the positive preliminary reviews of the Eastern Pequot Tribe and the Paucatuck Eastern Pequot Tribe....

The Department of Justice has filed an amicus brief in a federal voting rights case in Montana....

It could be a couple more weeks before a white man charged with the murder of a Navajo woman faces a jury, according to lawyers on both sides of the case....

A very special benefit is being held April 20 to draw attention to domestic violence on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota....

Secretary of Interior Gale Norton and the Torres Martinez Desert Cahuilla Tribe of California signed documents to mark a $14.2 million settlement approved by former President Bill Clinton....

Whaling families of the Makah Nation of Washington are preparing to set out on the water for another year of the tribe's controversial gray whale hunt....

There are but a few Alaska Natives who still practice the traditional Athabaskan technique of snowshoe making....

Author Shari Huhndorf was recognized as a woman warrior by the Alaska Native Studies Program at the University of Alaska for her work to reconcile and understand the treatment Alaska Natives have received....

In an editorial today, The New London Day says it's "had enough" and it's time for the state of Connecticut to change the way money from two tribal casinos is distributed....

"Ned Sampson feared for his life....

Spectators expecting a fantastic basketball game were sorely disappointed as The Fighting Whites faced off the Pie Guys in an intramural game at the University of Northern Colorado on Thursday night....

San Ildefonso Pueblo in New Mexico and the Department of Energy signed a memorandum of understanding this week to test the tribe's land for radioactive poisoning....

A new report prepared by the Department of Interior says drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge can hurt the caribou herd and other animals, reports the Associated Press....

The Federal Communications Commission this week announced it will refund $2.8 billion in down payments to several telecommunications companies who bought wireless licenses in a disputed auction that has reached the Supreme Court....

Secretary of Interior Gale Norton is considering reversing a Clinton administration decision which closed off nearly 50,000 acres of land in southern California to off-road vehicle use....

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In another test of recent changes to a law aimed at eliminating fraud and misrepresentation of Indian arts and crafts, a federal judge in Illinois has given permission for a case against a non-Indian company to continue....

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Native Americans are being urged by federal health officials to get tested for a newly named condition in an effort to prevent full development of diabetes, a disease which has reached epidemic proportions in Indian Country....

The Hopi Tribe and a Texas company have signed an agreement to consider building a 1,200-megawatt, coal-fired generating station on the tribe's Arizona reservation....

A Montana county may not be appealing a federal judge's ruling which found its voting system to discriminate against Native Americans....

Army Secretary and former Enron executive Thomas White defended his handling of his financial affairs on Wednesday and said he is not considering resigning....

President Bush is coming under quiet fire for his "stealth signing" of the campaign finance reform bill on Wednesday....

The Maine Legislative Council has dedicated money to start a task force to study a tribal casino proposal....

Five Connecticut towns located nearest to the state's tribal casinos could get an extra $175,000 this year....

Arizona Governor Jane Hull said she would sign a bill ensuring tribes can host a $350 million Arizona Cardinals football stadium....

The chief proponent of a gambling study in Rhode Island is rejecting a call by the Narragansett Tribe to complete work in time for the November elections....

The Mohegan Tribe of Connecticut is offering $7 million to help pay for a regional water project....

The Little Shell Chippewa Tribe of Montana is working to close comments on its federal recognition petition by July....

Accusing former Assistant Kevin Gover of running the Bureau of Indian Affairs like a "runaway train," The Norwich Bulletin in an editorial today calls on Congress to reimburse $1.2 million for a lawsuit filed by three Connecticut towns....

Television pioneer Milton Berle died at his home in California yesterday. He was 93....

Texaco will pay $850,000 for 88 oil spills and other environmental violations that allegedly occurred on the Navajo Reservation in Utah....

President Bush last year signed an executive order which was basically written by an oil lobbyist who pushed for federal agencies to consider the impact of their policies on the energy industry....

The second of four conferences promoting Navajo family values and cultural awareness was held in Shiprock, New Mexico, on Wednesday....

Alleging a double standard based on race, an activist group on Wednesday said it is considering suing the Nebraska Liquor Control Commission over the sale of beer in the border town of Whiteclay....

The Northern Cheyenne Tribal School and its board are the target of discrimination lawsuit filed by a former superintendent....

Secretary of Interior Gale Norton will release water to Klamath Basin farmers by personally opening the headgates at a federal facility in Oregon tomorrow....

Flags were flown at half-mast on the Red Lake Reservation in Minnesota on Wednesday to honor Roger Jourdain, the tribe's longtime chairman who passed away last week....

The Montana Districting and Apportionment Commission on Wednesday approved new districts for the state, including three new House districts with a majority Indian population....

Montana State University is hosting "Protecting Mother Earth," a four-day conference focusing on sacred sites....

A British Columbia Supreme Court judge on Wednesday turned down a request by the Hupacasath First Nation to stop the province from mailing a treaty referendum to voters....

Randy Castillo, a New Mexico native and former drummer for Ozzy Osbourne, died Tuesday after a bout with cancer....

An attorney defending a white man accused of murdering a Navajo woman is trying to suppress evidence of bias against Native American....

Elouise Cobell, lead plaintiff in the Individual Indian Money (IIM) class action, will receive an honorary doctorate from Montana State University....

The White Mountain Apache of Arizona and federal officials signed an agreement on Wednesday to allow up to six packs of the endangered Mexican gray wolf to roam on the reservation....

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The Bush administration has asked the Supreme Court to overturn a landmark $600 million trust fund claim won by the Navajo Nation for fear other tribes will file similar challenges....

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The federal government can evict a group of elderly residents from a public housing project because family members or guests were found in possession of drugs, the Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday....

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It appears the United States is finally taking action to correct the dismal removal policy that forced dozens of tribes to move out West in the name of progress....

The Bureau of Indian Affairs needs to review all of its pending federal recognition decisions, Sen....

President Bush did not ask Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo to consider clemency for an imprisoned American convicted of aiding a terrorist group, a White House spokesperson said on Tuesday....

The United States will be resettling 1,000 members of a Vietnamese tribe after talks to return them to their original homeland failed....

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A hotel chain which entered into a consent agreement in a discrimination case has withdrawn its request for early termination....

Some say it is ugly and too complex but a proposal to change Minnesota's flag was rejected by a legislative panel on Tuesday....

A Minnesota tribe on Tuesday questioned the city of Detroit's new casino deals, saying they could be in violation of court orders....

Efforts by the Narragansett Tribe failed to dissuade a legislative panel in Rhode Island from voting Tuesday night to approve a casino study....

The Gila River Tribe is taking a wait and see approach before it resubmits its once-heralded proposal for a $350 million Arizona Cardinals football stadium....

A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld stringent clean air standards finalized during the Clinton administration....

Three Connecticut towns whose only claim to victory in a land-into-trust case was the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation's withdrawal of its request want $1.2 million in legal funds reimbursed....

The Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation and the Mohegan Tribe are helping plan a United Nations event set to take place in Connecticut in July 2003....

The Bureau of Indian Affairs has taken the lead in investigating the cause of fires on the Mescalero Apache Reservation and surrounding areas....

Tribal leaders aren't the only group snubbed by the Bush administration as shown by the development of the president's national energy policy....

Thirteen Alaska tribes have joined with 22 First Nations in Canada to work together on a proposed natural gas pipeline....

Alaska Native corporations are bankrolling a voter initiative drive on subsistence but state legislators are questioning whether it will have an effect....

A county in Montana plans to challenge a federal judge's ruling that its voting system discriminates against Native Americans, saying the government is to blame....

A federal civil rights lawsuit has been filed on behalf of three members of the Yankton Sioux Tribe over the way a school district chooses its board members....

Athabaskan elder Doris Charles died in Fairbanks on Monday after a long battle with cancer....

Native Americans make up 6 percent of HIV/AIDS cases in the state of New Mexico, a figure health experts fear will rise....

The federal government has completed negotiations to settle the water rights of several Arizona tribes, the Associated Press reports....

Elouise Cobell, lead plaintiff in the Individual Indian Money (IIM) class action, was the keynote speaker at a symposium that took place on Tuesday at Gonzaga Law School in Washington....

A federal judge has ordered the Bureau of Indian Affairs to pay $3.1 million for the death of a man who died on the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana....

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A conservation group on Monday released its annual list of the nation's most endangered national parks, citing a pending land transfer to the Eastern Band of Cherokees in North Carolina as a threat to one....

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A Republican environmental organization recently sent us an editorial criticizing Secretary of Interior Gale Norton for moving to allow a gold mine operation in Imperial County, California, the one opposed by the Quechan Nation....

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The Bush administration is proposing to reduce unemployment in Indian Country, increase tribal timber revenue, improve the quality of life for American Indians and Alaska Natives and make reservation roads as safe as possible....

A 16,400-acre fire on the Mescalero Apache Reservation in New Mexico is 75 percent contained as of Monday night....

The Arizona Legislature is moving to act on a bill to ensure the Gila River Tribe can host a $350 million Arizona Cardinals stadium....

Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge is offering to hold informal briefing sessions with lawmakers as a means of avoiding testifying before Congress....

The Food and Drug Administration has issued a warning on the popular herbal remedy kava, saying it may be linked to liver failure....

Penobscot Nation Governor Barry Dana is supporting a study of a proposed tribal casino in Maine....

Lawmakers in northwestern Connecticut have banded together to oppose an expansion of tribal gaming in the state....

Senator Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) is proposing a bill affecting a former Army munitions plant that the Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma wants restored as a reservation....

A series of meetings addressing Navajo spirituality will begin tomorrow in Shiprock, New Mexico....

A one-woman presentation about the life of Sacagawea, the Indian woman who aided explorers Lewis and Clark, is drawing praise....

A federal judge on Monday order the city of Detroit to show cause why three casinos should not be shut down....

The New York Appellate Court on Monday heard arguments in a case challenging Gov....

The case of an American imprisoned in Peru for assisting a terrorist group is closed, according to the country's president....

The ranking Democrat on the House Interior Appropriations subcommittee this month said he would consider supplementing Department of Interior officials and employees with liability insurance....

"For people following the controversy over the use of the "Fighting Sioux" nickname for university sports teams, the recent poll commissioned and reported by Sports Illustrated was something of a shocker....

In an editorial today, The Sioux Falls Argus Leader praises the Nebraska Legislature for agreeing to study liquor sales near the Pine Ridge Reservation....

An Alaska state judge on Friday struck down the state's English only law as unconstitutional....

Apache musician Robby Romero is touring six Alaskan communities to show support for the Gwich'in Nation and its fight to oppose drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge....

The Department of Energy never met with conservation of energy groups during the formulation of President Bush's national energy policy, according to a review of agency documents by The Washington Post....

The mayor of Duluth, Minnesota, has established an American Indian Commission....

In an opinion piece published in The Washington Post today, Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham says Americans are "dreaming" if they think leaving highly radioactive nuclear waste in their current locations is safe. "So far as terrorists are concerned, why wouldn't they first attack stationary, above-ground facilities that lie in known locations near heavily populated cities, rather than wait 10 years until the material is being moved -- in secret -- in secure containers surrounded by heavily armed guards?" he writes....

"Men such as Roger Jourdain, who passed away March 21, are markers in our history....

Tribes in the Pacific Northwest have taken greater roles in dam-related issues, seeking ways to protect their interests after years of being ignored....

Two Indian Health Service officials at the Crow agency on the Crow Reservation in Montana have been suspended....

The Haida First Nation has made a landmark claim to on- and off-shore natural resources on Queen Charlotte Islands, asking the province's Supreme Court to recognize its right to exercise control over the assets. Get the Story: In Canadian Court, a Native Nation Claims Offshore Rights (The Washington Post 3/26) Related Stories: Haida claim considered landmark (3/7) First Nations Briefs: Haida claim (3/6) BRITISH COLUMBIA: The Hupacaseth First Nation is going to court today to file a challenge to a provincial-wide treaty referendum, whose questions have only been recently finalized....

A federal judge in Montana has ruled that the way a county elects its commissioners discriminates against Native voters....

Author Jeff Benedict, whose has called for the termination of the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation of Connecticut, only became a Democrat to run for Congress, reports The New London Day....

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After a more than three-month delay, the last of the information technology systems key to the administration of the Indian trust is finally coming back online....

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Trust fund accounting still unresolved, sacred sites debate draws emotion, Indian issues face Bush administration, and Rhode Island casino controversy brews....

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Binge drinking among Native American college students is dropping but their alcohol use remains among the highest in the nation, according to a health study released on Friday....

Some Navajo Code Talkers may dislike Navajo Nation President Kelsey Begaye but they are making it clear they aren't endorsing his run for re-election....

In an editorial, The Sioux Falls Argus Leader criticizes a South Dakota judge for ignoring "fairness and justice" in a case involving the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe's girls basketball team....

"I was the one who'd never be here....

The Arizona Daily Sun today features a photo of Apache comedian Drew Lacapa....

In an editorial today, The Norwich Bulletin criticizes the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation for not supporting a plan to increase casino aid to five southeastern Connecticut communities....

American researchers have come under fire for claiming genetically modified corn has been found in Mexico, the birthplace of the species....

The senators from Alaska and their allies have frequently invoked Saddam Hussein and Iraq as a reason to open up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling....

A man and woman are hospitalized after their car was hit by a Burlington Northern Santa Fe train on the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana....

A Massachusetts man who claims he lost out on a $158,000 casino jackpot has taken his case to federal court....

Author and Congressional candidate Jeff Benedict is going to Maine to oppose a proposed tribal casino....

The Arizona Legislature will meet today to consider ways to allow tribes to host a new $350 Arizona Cardinals football stadium....

Seven Native American women were honored for their contributions to their tribes at a ceremony in Montana this past Saturday....

Ever since his marriage to an Alaska Native woman, some say Alaska Senate President Rob Halford has changed his stance on rural and Native issues....

At a debate on Sunday night, the three Democrats running for governor of South Dakota said they support tribal sovereignty....

Gwich'in activist Faith Gimmell has fought against opening up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska to drilling for years and has been blessed with incredible luck....

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Leanne Moll is spending her school year teaching reading and writing on the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana....

Susette Blackbird, a 17-year-old Cheyenne River Sioux / Omaha girl, entered drug and alcohol abuse treatment in November....

Thirty to 40 percent of the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation has diabetes, according to a Connecticut health official who cites federal data....

British publication The Economist writes up the Indian trust fund in its March 23 print edition, saying Elouise Cobell and the plaintiffs may be near a victory in the five-year-old case....

Roger Jourdain, the outspoken former chairman of the Red Lake Band of Ojibwe, died at a Minnesota hospital on Thursday....

Army Secretary Thomas White made 73 calls to his former colleagues at Enron Corp....

The New Mexico Department of Health last week released a report compiling various health statistics of Pueblo, Navajo and Apache tribes in the state....
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