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June 15, 2005
Focus on safety for AFN convention in Fairbanks
Officials in Fairbanks are busy setting up a round-the-clock Public Service Safety Center for the upcoming Alaska Federation of Natives convention. The Fairbanks Police Department is using a $65,000 Homeland...

Lawsuit filed over San Pasqual enrollment dispute
A member of the San Pasqual Band of Mission Indians filed a lawsuit against the Bureau of Indian Affairs on May 31, calling on the agency to take a more...

Florida's Bush to negotiate Class III compact
Breaking months of silence on Indian gaming, Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R) on Tuesday announced that he will begin negotiations with the Seminole Tribe for a Class III compact. Although...

BIA ruling on Connecticut tribes expected in September
The Bureau of Indian Affairs is scheduled to issue new rulings on the recognition of two Connecticut tribes by September 12. The BIA was ordered to prepare new final determinations...

Red Lake schools don't have security plan yet
The school district on the Red Lake Ojibwe Reservation in Minnesota is still working on a security plan three months after the deadly March 21 shootings at the high school....

Opinion: Red Lake shootings coverage unfair
"The day a young and disturbed Jeffrey Weise took 10 lives, including his own, Red Lake, Minn., was thrust from media obscurity into the national and international spotlight. For those...

Chippewa Cree judge charged with drunken driving
The chief judge for the Chippewa Cree Tribe of Montana has been charged for drunken driving and refusing to take a breath test. Tribal Court Chief Judge Duane Gopher pleaded...

Citizen Potawatomi Nation election set for June 25
Elections for the Citizen Potawatomi Nation of Oklahoma will be held on June 25. Incumbent John "Rocky" Barrett is facing a challenge from Leon Bruno. Barrett is currently pursuing criminal...

Lakota Republican questions Whiteclay campaign
Bruce Whalen, a member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe who is active in the Republican Party is questioning efforts to eliminate liquor sales in the border town of Whiteclay, Nebraska....

David Pego, Chippewa journalist, dies at 51
David Pego, a member of the Saginaw Chippewa Tribe of Michigan who was active in promoting Native journalism, died last week. He was 51. Pego passed away at his...

Agua Caliente Band reopens canyon to visitors
More than three decades after closing Tahquitz Canyon due to vandalism, misuse and trespassing, the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians has reopened the prized hiking spot to the...

Appeal in Northern Cheyenne Tribe's drilling case
The Bureau of Land Management and an energy company are appealing the Northern Cheyenne Tribe's victory in a coalbed methane drilling case, The Billings Gazette reports. A federal judge ruled...

Shinnecock Nation runs ads in support of land claim
The Shinnecock Nation of New York began running radio and television ads on Tuesday to support its billion-dollar land claim in the Hamptons of Long Island. The campaign will appear...

Court rejects Tuscarora man's fishing rights claim
Members of the Tuscarora Nation don't have off-reservation fishing rights on ancestral lands, the New York Court of Appeals ruled on Tuesday. Neil Patterson Jr. was cited for failing put...

Forgery charge laid in disputed Metis Nation election
An ongoing investigation into the disputed election of the Métis Nation of Saskatchewan has resulted in criminal charges against a poll worker accused of forgery. The province has been looking...

Opinion: School 'lied' on telescope at sacred site
"Just as good science requires more than a litmus test, good policy at the University should be accountable to review by many factors. In the wake of the Board of...

Brief in tobacco case argued for tough penalties
Department of Justice attorneys argued that a federal appeals court decision had no bearing on their request for $130 billion from tobacco companies in a brief submitted only a month...

Senate confirms another judge for D.C. Circuit
The Senate voted 73 to 24 on Tuesday to confirm former Senate legal counsel Thomas B. Griffith to a seat on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. The D.C. Circuit...

DOJ's Public Integrity Section leads Abramoff probe
The Department of Justice's Public Integrity Section is leading the criminal probe into disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff, The Hill newspaper reports. The Public Integrity Section is part of the...

Senate hearing on youth suicide prevention
The Senate Indian Affairs Committee held an oversight hearing this morning youth suicide prevention. It was chaired by Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-North Dakota), the vice chairman of the committee, who...

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