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The Bush administration on Thursday rejected a controversial casino agreement that drew high-profile attention, and opposition, from state officials in Louisiana and members of Congress....

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Indian trust duties currently handled by the Department of Interior face being parceled out to third party contractors based on recommendations being made by a consulting firm whose qualifications tribal leaders have questioned....

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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....

Ousted Seminole chief Jim Billie is prepared to ask Secretary of Interior Gale Norton to put him back in power, his attorney says....

Thanks to profits from a financially successful casino, the Mohegan Tribe of Connecticut has opened a housing complex for tribal elders....

The St Francis Band of the Abenaki Nation of Vermont is defending its fight to gain federal recognition amid criticism from state officials....

A National Academy of Sciences panel examining the Klamath Basin faced heavy criticism on Thursday for a report that questioned the science behind a controversial decision to deny non-Indian farmers water....

A 17-year-old member of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Dakota Nation of South Dakota has been removed from her basement cell to a juvenile facility....

The Sand Creek Massacre Historic Site in Colorado, quickly approved by Congress after Sen....

A New Mexico State Judge on Thursday cleared a Bureau of Indian Affairs criminal investigator of wrongdoing for the dragging death of a young, deaf Pueblo woman....

Pueblo, Navajo, Hopi and Tohono O'odham cultures are documented in a new exhibit and book at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture in Santa Fe, New Mexico....

John Galliano of Christian Dior debuted on Thursday what the press calls women's clothing inspired by Choctaw, Chippewa, Eskimo, Iroquois and South American Indian cultures....

Students in northern New Mexico who participated in a riot at Española Valley High School face expulsion and other punishment....

Twenty-three First Nation bands in Alberta are exempt from taxes, a federal court judge in Ottawa ruled on Thursday....

A parade of lawsuits have been filed against the Department of Interior alleging mismanagement of trust assets....

Idaho lawmakers took three actions on Thursday that tribal leaders consider an attack on their sovereignty....

Thursday's rejection of a casino compact between the Jena Band of Choctaws and the state of Louisiana continues to be big news, focusing on what might happen next....

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission on Thursday halted an order that required the Skull Valley Goshute Tribe of Utah to disclose spending related to a proposed nuclear waste dumb....

Navajo Code Talker David Tsosie will finally get his Congressional silver medal tomorrow at a ceremony in Bloomfield, New Mexico.....

The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday delayed by one week a vote on a controversial nominee to a federal appeals court....

A federal judge has sentenced two men for conspiring to bring methamphetamine to the Northern Cheyenne Reservation in Montana....

Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal on Thursday asked the Department of Interior to overturn the federal recognition bids of two Pequot tribes in the state....

The Oneida Nation of Wisconsin has filed additional land claims in the state of New York....

The St Regis Mohawk Tribe is no more....

Residents in Chandler, Arizona, are seeking input into a proposal football stadium on the Gila River Reservation....

Mescalero Apache Nation President Sara Misquez is considering renovating the New Mexico tribe's casino and inn, reports The Albuquerque Journal....

The Mohegan Tribe of Connecticut is looking to expand business opportunities beyond its casino, reports The New London Day....

The Wall Street Journal has lost "serious respect" for a racist editorial it wrote about Gov....

Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are vowing repercussions for the firing of U.S....

Democrats and environmentalists on Thursday criticized Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Christie Whitman for testimony she made regarding pollution litigation....

Governor George Pataki (R) has told state agencies and colleges to limit contact with tribes to those "recognized" by the federal government....

Hundreds of friends, family and others gathered in Massachusetts on Wednesday to say a final goodbye to Wampanoag leader Russell Peters....

States across the country are looking to gambling to increase revenue but ever the independent, Gov....

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The Department of Interior is balking at increasing funding and support for a tribal task force on trust reform even as Secretary Gale Norton says she is committed to working with Indian Country....

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Tooth decay among young American Indian and Alaska Native children is "worsening" and will lead to more problems later on in life, according to recent report by the Indian Health Service....

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The Department of Interior has extended for another 30 days the comment period on the reorganization of Indian trust....

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McCaleb been doing for the past four months when it comes to the recognition of the Chinook Nation of Washington? Absolutely nothing, if you ask Chinook representatives....

Alaskans in Fairbanks gazed with awe at the sky Wednesday morning as "sundogs" surrounded the sun, signaling more cold weather in Alaska Native tradition....

Revenue at Arizona's tribal casinos would have to increase 50 percent within a year to meet state projections, an independent analyst has told an Arizona paper....

Assistant Secretary Neal McCaleb has rejected a proposed gaming compact between the Jena Band of Choctaws and the state of Louisiana....

"Jon Whirlwind Horse's Feb....

The Individual Indian Money (IIM) trust should be stripped from the Department of Interior and handed to a court-appointed receiver, The St. Petersburg Times writes in an editorial today....

Poor Gale Norton....

In an editorial today, The Grand Forks Herald says mascot opponents can no longer claim a majority of Native Americans oppose the use of Indians as team names, nicknames or other symbols....

In an editorial today, The Spokesman Review says state Sen....

The McQueen School in Kivalina, Alaska, could reopen for classes as early as next week, a school official said....

The state of Nevada will be installing a statue of Sarah Winnemucca, a Paiute woman who sought peace among Indians and non-Indians, at the Statuary Hall in Washington, D.C....

In a case expected to take years to resolve, the Haida First Nation has laid claim to the Queen Charlotte Islands in British Columbia....

A final decision on the recognition of the Chinook Nation of Washington has again been delayed by the Bush administration....

The Oklahoma House on Wednesday approved a measure that requires state voters to approve the sale of water to another state....

The Department of Energy on Wednesday said it would ask for an additional $433 million to clean up the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington....

Citing high unemployment and a need for revenue, the Northern Arapaho Tribe of Wyoming wants to operate Class III games, said a spokesperson....

The Senate Agriculture Committee on Wednesday held a hearing into the nomination of Department of Agriculture nominee Thomas Dorr....

Republicans in the Senate are hoping to open up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas drilling but Democrats say they would filibuster such a proposal....

Senate sparring continued on Wednesday as the chamber debated an energy policy bill and approved an amendment to route a natural gas pipeline through the state of Alaska....

The head of the Army Corps of Engineers was forced to resign from his post on Wednesday for questioning budget cuts proposed by President Bush....

Federal officials have placed into custody a man for trying to prevent the capture of bison in Yellowstone National Park....

The FBI, the Bureau of Indian Affairs and tribal police are investigating the recent death of an elderly man at Laguna Pueblo in New Mexico....

The Senate Judiciary Committee today will probably delay a vote on controversial appeals court nominee Charles Pickering....

Representative Chris John has written Secretary of Interior Gale Norton to ask for a delay on a gaming compact with the Jena Band of Choctaws in Louisiana. John says more local input is needed before Assistant Secretary Neal McCaleb acts....

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Angry that the Department of Interior won't release costs associated with controversial appointee Ross Swimmer, National Congress of American Indians President Tex Hall said he would demand the information at a meeting with government officials later this week....

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Siding with two states and representatives of the fishing industry, a federal appeals court on Tuesday rejected an agreement governing the treaty rights of the Makah Nation of Washington....

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Production versus conservation dominated debate on the Senate floor on Tuesday as the chamber finally took up a long-delayed energy policy bill the White House said was troubling....

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Holding Secretary of Interior Gale Norton in contempt of court will only allow "opponents" to derail trust reform and prevent the broken system from ever being fixed, her attorneys are arguing....

The Senate Indian Affairs Committee on Tuesday held a hearing on President Bush's new budget with the top leaders criticizing the proposal....

If you raised at least $100,000 for President Bush's political campaigns, you just might be a member of his administration....

The Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation and the Mohegan Tribe are among the largest taxpayers in neighboring Connecticut towns....

A Hopi tribal court judge has dismissed trespassing charges brought against five Navajo women....

Secretary of Interior Gale Norton on Tuesday agreed to delay the recognition of the Chinook Nation of Washington by four months....

A sex offender who pleaded guilty to raping a 14-year-old girl on the Spirit Lake Sioux Reservation in North Dakota could receive a modified sentence for his crime under a federal appeals court decision issued on Tuesday....

A special division of federal appeals court today has ordered the release of the final investigative report into former President Bill Clinton's involvement with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky and Paula Jones, the woman who accused him of sexual harassment....

The Haida First Nation in British Columbia, Canada, is filing a lawsuit claiming Queen Charlotte Islands....

Opening up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas development is one of the most debated topics in the nation these days, with both sides offering up their own "spin," as The Washington Post puts it, to promote their arguments....

Senator Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.) is introducing a bill to settle Sandia Pueblo's claim to the western face of the Sandia Mountains in New Mexico....

A Florida man has filed suit to stop a pageant that depicts children dressed up as Indians stabbing children dressed up as Spaniards....

"The racially motivated incident of Nov....

Members of Washington's Congressional delegation are urging Assistant Secretary Neal McCaleb to stop delaying and recognize the Chinook Nation....

Two members of Connecticut's Congressional delegation say an investigation into the Clinton administration's handling of federal recognition makes the case for reform....

The Arizona state Tourism and Sports Authority on Tuesday picked two finalists to host a $350 million Arizona Cardinals football stadium....

US Fish and Wildlife Service employees in Alaska are not being allowed to express their own views on drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge....

Four candidates seeking the Democratic gubernatorial nomination are supporting extended compacts with tribes in the state....

President Bush today is bringing embattled judicial nominee Charles Pickering to the White House for a last-minute rally but it probably won't do any good....

A group of Hawaii residents is seeking to have a $337 million Native Hawaiian trust fund be turned over to the state....

An audit of a new tax computer system being developed at the Internal Revenue Service has raised serious questions about its feasibility....

A federal judge on Tuesday ordered several government agencies to release thousands of documents used in the formation of President Bush's national energy policy....

There's a flurry of activity at the Statehouse in Maine, where lobbyists and their allies are trying to get gaming approved....

It's not scheduled to open for another month, but the new hotel and convention center at the Mohegan Sun casino in Connecticut is bracing for a whole lot of business....

Two officials of the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation have received awards from a national law enforcement institute....

The Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation's top gaming regulator is leaving his job, The New London Day reports....

The Citizen Potawatomi Nation of Oklahoma credits a software program with improving its bottom line....

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The State Department on Monday released its annual report on human rights conditions worldwide, citing the same group of nations for their mistreatment of indigenous peoples....

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Secretary of Interior Gale Norton should not be given a chance to fix a system she is incapable of correcting, attorneys for 300,000 American Indians have told a federal judge....

Maine Governor Angus King on Monday made good on his promise to veto a bill that would pave the way for Indian gaming in the state....

In an editorial, The Farmington Daily-Times praises Navajo Nation tribal members for seeking to make changes to a government that doesn't work to their advantage....

The Department of Interior's top inspector has recommended a new official be put in charge of law enforcement, reports The Palm Springs Desert Sun....

A committee of the Connecticut Legislature on Monday held a hearing to consider repealing a law some feel paved the way for Indian gaming....

"Paul Krugman column, March 1) doesn't recognize the enormous technological progress that will make environmentally sensitive energy development possible in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge....

Wampanoag leader and author Russell Peters passed away after a long illness at a Massachusetts hospital on Sunday....

The Gila River Tribe and the city of Mesa are being considered the top two choices for an Arizona Cardinals football stadium....

Three Alaska Native corporations whose billion dollar investment in the wireless technology market has been in limbo for several months claimed victory on Monday when the Supreme Court agreed to review their stalled case....

The Indian Health Service has knowingly hired doctors who have been disciplined or who are sex offenders, according to an Associated Press review....

The St Regis Mohawk Tribe and a New York newspaper are criticizing The Wall Street Journal for a biased editorial....

Assistant Secretary Neal McCaleb has asked to delay a decision on the Chinook Nation recognition for another four months....

An inquest into the death of an elderly Native is bringing up charges of racism against the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in British Columbia....

US District Judge Royce Lamberth on Monday struck down an Army promotion process because he ruled it discriminated against white men....

The Duwamish Tribe of Washington is prepared to sue if its federal recognition petition is denied, an attorney said....

Office of Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge is refusing a bipartisan request to testify before a Senate committee because the White House says he is not a Cabinet official....

Teachers and aides at a shutdown school in the village of Kivalina, Alaska, say they felt threatened by students and got reports from village residents that they were not wanted....

Parents of nearly 30 students involved in riots at a New Mexico high school may face fines and other penalties, the local school board has said....

Claimed by many, a headdress reported to have been worn by Apache leader Geronimo has been the subject of a long debate over ownership....

The Navajo Nation and the Jicarilla Apache Nation are among several litigants who could get their attorneys' fees reimbursed by a New Mexico state judge....

The Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection has completed an analysis of the Mohegan Tribe's proposed fishery....

Senator Mary Landrieu (D-La.) is urging Secretary of Interior Gale Norton to reject a casino proposed by the Jena Band of Choctaws....

Four women are facing charges of trespassing, resisting arrest, disorderly conduct and obstructing police for protesting the killing of bison near Yellowstone National Park....

The Senate today is expected to take up a long-delayed energy bill that doesn't include opening up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas drilling....

Even though the investigation into the Clinton administration's handling of federal recognition turned up no ties to political contributions or the gaming industry, Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal says the report shows why the system needs to be reformed....

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If Secretary of Interior Gale Norton had her way, her vision of trust reform would be a reality by now....

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Although Secretary of Interior Gale Norton has backed off plans to create an Indian trust agency and says no funds are being used to implement it, her department won't detail how much money is being spent in transition costs, officials said....

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The Supreme Court today has accepted a case that could prevent three Alaska Native corporations from losing their investment in a wireless telecommunications venture....

In an editorial today, The Sioux Falls Argus Leader praises the arrival of the United Sioux Tribe Development Corp....

March 9 has been declared "David Tsosie Day" in honor of the Navajo Code Talker who will finally get his Congressional silver medal after a long wait....

Saying he still has unfinished work, Navajo Nation President Kelsey Begaye is seeking to run the largest tribe in the country for another four-year term....

Although former Army Colonel Kit Carson and his men forced 9,000 Navajos to walk 300 miles to an interment camp where more than 1,000 died, it turns out he could have killed many more had he just put his mind to it....

A scholarship fund has been set up at the University of Oklahoma School of Dance to honor Native ballerinas....

Students, parents and elders packed into the gym of a now-closed school in Kivalina, Alaska, to discuss the problems that led to its shutdown....

Students can now get up close and personal with the caribou herd at the center of the debate over drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge....

"In 1992 The Post endorsed a movement to change the team's name. WTOP radio refused to say "Redskin" on the air for two years....

"Columnist, old friend and snappy dresser Roger Clawson once referred to me in one of HIS columns as "artist, columnist, and friend of the gray wolf." One out of three ain't bad....

The fired director of New Mexico's Commission on Indian Affairs is accusing a co-worker of filing a sexual harassment claim to get back at him....

In an editorial today, The Christian Science Monitor says Congress should limit political contributions by tribes....

The Navajo Nation's Office of Navajo Government Development will be holding a convention in May to discuss reforming the tribal government....

Maria Pearson has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for her work on repatriation issues in Iowa....

In what is being hailed as a sign of the times, the Arizona Sports and Tourism Authority will likely select a tribe as a finalist for an Arizona Cardinals stadium....

The Department of Interior hasn't yet decided whether it will review the federal status of more than 200 Alaska Native governments, a request that has drawn the ire of tribal leaders....

A New Mexico county is appealing the Bureau of Indian Affairs' decision to take 55 acres of land into trust for the Jicarilla Apache Nation....

If gaming on Nebraska's reservations is allowed, look for the state to seek a cut of the money, reports The Omaha World-Herald....

The Supreme Court last month declined to review the state of Idaho's attempt to force tribes to pay state gasoline tax....

A plastics factory owned by two Alaska Native corporations will be shutting down in June, resulting in layoffs for 157 employees....

Santa Ana Pueblo is hoping to resolve a lawsuit it filed against a former state lawmaker for a business deal gone bad....

New York tribes with pending land claims have been discouraging Gov. George Pataki from negotiation settlements with out-of-state tribes....

The Yakama Nation of Washington has joined a high-profile fight over the disposal of nuclear waste....

In an opinion piece published in The Denver Post, Sen....

In an editorial, The Denver Post blasts the Department of Interior for not withholding millions of dollars in payments to American Indians....

How many editorials and columns must Secretary of Interior Gale Norton write before she gets the trust fund debacle right? No one can say for sure, but she's taken yet another shot at it....

For her work in covering Native issues, Jodi Rave Lee of The Lincoln Journal Star is receiving an excellence in journalism award by Columbia University....

"The problem with trust reform is not that Secretary Norton and the Interior Department do not care about it....
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