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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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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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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....

A fire in the Inupiat Eskimo village of Shungnak, Alaska, destroyed two lodges before being contained on Monday....

With Indian casinos generating $12.7 billion in revenues, tribes are being sought out by the greater gaming industry....

Ron Volesky, a member of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and a Democratic candidate for South Dakota attorney general, opposes the death penalty....

The Fort Peck Tribes of Montana and a community group held a forum to address pedestrian train fatalities on the reservation....

Two Oklahoma tribes are worried a land bill pending in Congress will subject them to the whims of the Cherokee Nation....

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....

A lawsuit in New York could delay the construction and opening of the Seneca Nation's first off-reservation casino....

A Wisconsin state appeals court reinstated a lawsuit challenging tribal gaming compacts....

The Sac and Fox Nation of Oklahoma has a waiting list for people to move into a housing development....

Making good on an earlier threat, the residents of an Eskimo village in Alaska sued the operators of the world's largest zinc mine....

The Navajo Nation and the states of Utah and Arizona are building a vendor center for Navajo artisans....

The Yakama Nation of Washington wants a federal judge to throw out a repair project for a federal dam....

"Talk about a never-ending story! A judge has held the U.S....

Assistant Secretary Neal McCaleb says he and Secretary of Interior Gale Norton were held in contempt for actions during the Clinton administration....

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....

"Accounting boondoggles are not limited to the private sector....

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....

The race track industry plans to ask for a rehearing of a case challenging the validity of tribal gaming compacts....

"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....

A new election will be held to choose a new chairman for the Crow Tribe of Montana....

Representative Jim McDermott (D-Wash) plans to introduce a bill to recognize the Duwamish Tribe of Washington....

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....

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....

President Bush issued an executive order on Wednesday to speed on environmental review of major transportation projects....

The Senate may vote today on a measure to suspend all federal recognition decisions pending reform of the system....

The Strawberry Valley Band of Pakan'yani Maidu Indians was terminated in 1961 and is seeking to regain its federal status....

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A federal appeals court on Wednesday rejected an "unprecedented" attempt by a Washington county to assert jurisdiction over land on the Tulalip Reservation....

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If you weren't at the National Summit on Emerging Tribal Economies in Phoenix, Arizona, this week, you missed out on one of the better Indian Country events of the year....

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The federal judge overseeing the Indian trust debacle has expanded probes into the contemptuous conduct of nearly 50 federal officials and government attorneys....

Tribal and Indian gaming leaders are out in force at the Global Gaming Expo taking place this week in Las Vegas....

The Coeur d'Alene Tribe of Idaho is keeping an eye on a legal battle over field burning....

Archaeologists are being forced to reconsider their prior views of Mayan history with the discovery of one of the largest sets of hieroglyphs ever found....

A ballot error has forced a Wyoming tribe to void its primary election....

Pojoaque Pueblo in New Mexico has won an award for creating affordable to local residents....

A Kansas county commission intends to move on a $8.5 million highway expansion plan despite objections affecting Haskell Indian Nations University....

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The FBI on Wednesday arrested three New Mexico teens for the attempted murder on the Navajo Nation....

The Golden Hill Paugussett Tribe of Connecticut is threatening to make claims to thousands of acres of land unless it can get a casino....

Senator Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii), chairman of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee, is opposing an attempt to halt all federal recognition decisions....

Brazil's Indian population makes up the majority in some parts of the country but there are no elected indigenous representatives....

The following is a joint press release of the Quechan Indian Nation and California state senator John Burton....

The Northern Ute Tribe of Utah dedicated a special pond for use by tribal elders....

A federal judge in Arizona issued a preliminary junction against the Colorado River Indian Tribes, forcing the tribal casino to submit to a state-tribal gaming compact....

The family of a Nebraska couple killed during an accident with a Bureau of Indian Affairs employee sued the agency on Wednesday for $37 million....

The Bush administration is "on the run" for failing to fix the Indian trust fund, lead plaintiff Elouise Cobell told The London Independent....

"Call it a modern-day Trail of Tears, another chapter in the endless saga of the raping of the American Indian....

"Accounting failures in the private sector have been big news lately....

The Seneca Nation of New York began work on Wednesday for a temporary casino....

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Deputy Interior Secretary Steven Griles, who swore under oath that he is in charge of Indian trust, came "perilously close" to perjuring himself by trying to smear a court investigator, a federal judge ruled on Tuesday....

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Members of Congress reacted in a partisan fashion on Tuesday to a federal judge's ruling that found Secretary of Interior Gale Norton in contempt of court for ignoring the rights of 500,000 American Indians....

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Secretary of Interior Gale Norton on Tuesday said the Bush administration plans to challenge a federal judge's stinging ruling which declared her and Indian affairs aide Neal McCaleb "unfit" to manage money belonging to 500,000 Native Americans....

For more than 300 years, the Narragansett Tribe has met every August to give thanks to corn....

Critics of federal recognition got a chance to air their complaints at a Senate hearing on Tuesday....

The Native American Studies Program at the University of Oklahoma was named "outstanding educational program of the year" by the Oklahoma Native American Business Development Center....

"Once again the United States of America is reminded of its disgrace, via its Department of Interior, for how it has historically bungled trust assets belonging to American Indian people....

The three major candidates for governor of New Mexico debated Indian issues in recent interviews....

Blackfeet tribal elders helped teachers and students at schools in Great Falls, Montana, learn more about traditional culture....

A man already convicted of murdering a Navajo woman must be prosecuted for other crimes, The Farmington Daily-Times writes in an editorial today....

Navajo Nation presidential hopeful Joe Shirley chose Frank Dayish as his running mate....

The Blackfeet Nation of Montana participated in a raid on a drug house near a school on the Blackfeet Reservation....

Five Indian candidates are seeking a seat on a Montana county commission, thanks to a federal judge's ruling that found Native voting rights had been violated....

A New York state judge on Tuesday dismissed a challenge to the Seneca Nation's casino compact....

"Interior Secretary Gale Norton and an assistant secretary were enshrined yesterday in the Hall of Shame over the epic debacle of the Indian trust case....

Problems at an Inupiat village school in Alaska have not been corrected, critics charged....

Two new federal indictments were issued on Tuesday for a bribery scandal involving the ex-chairman of the Crow Nation of Montana....

The federal judge overseeing the Indian trust class action issued a number of decisions on Tuesday....

"Gale Norton, US Interior Secretary, is a decent, hardworking person - who deserves to get taken to the woodshed for mishandling the Indian trust funds....

Tom Slonaker, ousted from his trust reform oversight role at the Department of Interior, feels vindicated with yesterday's decision holding the Bush administration in contempt of court....

A multinational company seeking to start a mine near a Wisconsin reservation is withdrawing from the controversial project....

Haskell Indian Nations University in Kansas is not about to close, school president Karen Swisher told students on Tuesday....

A federal judge in Florida won't appoint a court monitor to oversee the federal government's $7.8 billion Everglades cleanup....

The Hualapai Tribe of Arizona, like many throughout the nation, is trying to protect its past and sacred sites from being destroyed....

About 1,500 tribal leaders, Indian entrepreneurs and business representatives are attending the Bureau of Indian Affairs National Summit on Emerging Tribal Economies this week in Phoenix, Arizona....

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Looking like proud parents, Secretary of Interior Gale Norton and Indian affairs aide Neal McCaleb on Monday took a sneak peak at the economic development summit they are hosting this week in Arizona....

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A federal judge found Secretary of Interior Gale Norton and Assistant Secretary Neal McCaleb in contempt of court....

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A federal judge today held Secretary of Interior Gale Norton in contempt of court for her handling of the Indian trust fund....

The Golden Hill Paugussett Tribe of Connecticut lacks federal recognition but is moving forward with plans for a casino....

An organization of Haskell Indian Nations University students, alumni and supporters wants more time to review complex environmental studies on a proposed highway expansion in Kansas....

"With his "Healthy Forests Initiative," President Bush has taken decisive action to address the catastrophic fires that have been rampaging across the West....

Income of Native Americans in Minnesota grew over the past decade but still trails that of whites, according to The Minneapolis Star Tribune....

Navajo Nation President Kelsey Begaye officially kicked off his re-election bid on Monday....

The Senate Indian Affairs Committee will hold a hearing today on the federal recognition process....

Secretary of Interior Gale Norton needs to so some serious "soul-searching" on the presence of snowmobiles in national parks and monuments, The New York Times writes in an editorial today....

The federal government shouldn't "waste" more time and money to appeal the Kennewick Man decision, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer says in an editorial today....

It took District of Columbia emergency medical technicians 13 minutes to reach a Blackfeet elder who suffered a heart attack at the National Museum of the American Indian's pow-wow....

While the Bush administration seeks to limit liability for management of Indian trust assets, First Nations in British Columbia, Canada, are seeing a revolution in terms of their land and other rights....

University of North Dakota officials failed to respond to claims of a racially hostile environment over the school's use of the "Fighting Sioux" nickname, federal investigators concluded....

The Sioux Falls Argus Leader wraps up its series on Native American athletes by focusing on what makes them succeed....

The National Summit on Emerging Tribal Economies is profiling successful Indian businesses, including a roofing business in Arizona owned by two women....

The following is a statement by United States Representative Nick Rahall (D-W.Va.), the ranking member of the House Resources Committee, on Judge Lamberth's ruling today....

In an editorial, The New London Day chastises Connecticut Governor John Rowland for his current anti-gaming stance....

"Elections on reservations can be as heated and dicey as some national elections....

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Tribes end talks over Indian trust standards, critics challenge federal recognition decisions, court dismisses lawsuit over casino game, and Miss America hopeful loses chance to compete....

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A high-priced bidding and legal war erupted last week over a commercially viable Indian allotment in Oklahoma....

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The state of Wisconsin has ended talks over a tribally-driven proposal to buy a controversial mine site, officials announced on Friday....

A poll conducted by The Bangor Daily News reveals a split among residents of Maine over support of a tribal casino....

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Two critics of the Bureau of Indian Affairs deny that money influences their decisions despite accusing the troubled agency of the same....

The Sioux Falls Argus Leader of South Dakota is running a feature series on Native American athletes....

Haskell Indian Nations University has a new $1.1 million cultural center and museum that opened on Saturday....

Members of the Kickapoo Tribe of Texas filed suit in state court to force a recall election of their chairman Raul Garza, also known as Makateonenodua....

An Alaska Native regional corporation plans to build a huge coal power plant to supply rural villages with low-cost power....

The first ever National Museum of the American Indian pow-wow was held over the weekend in Washington, D.C....

Sharon Clahchischilliage is running for New Mexico secretary of state and if elected, she'll be the only Native American woman in the nation to hold a statewide office....

The Institute for Tribal Environmental Professionals is holding its 10th anniversary celebration this week in Arizona....

The Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center in Great Falls, Montana, is holding Native American Week to raise awareness of the historic journey....

Members of a California tribe are of three camps when it comes to an historic burial site....

Members of the Nez Perce Tribe participated in a ceremony to commemorate the location of a battle between tribal ancestors and the U.S....

The American Museum of Natural History in New York returned 48 Haida ancestors to the Haida First Nation of British Columbia, Canada....

"For several seasons now, I have rooted against the so-called Redskins, having found it difficult to "love the team but hate the name," as some of my more tolerant Native American friends do....

The Oneida Nation of New York delayed demolition of a tribal member's home on Sunday....

Secretary of Interior Gale Norton last week "bragged" about the progress the Bush administration has made on trust reform, Bill McAllister of The Denver Post writes in his "Beltway Notebook" column....

The chairman of the Leech Lake Ojibwe Tribe of Minnesota is up for a recall vote....

The Bureau of Indian Affairs is hosting its first economic development summit this week in Phoenix, Arizona....
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