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June 27, 2005
Lobbying Report: Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians
Thanks to Indian gaming, tribes have emerged as major players in Washington, D.C. In the past two election cycles alone, tribes poured $13.8 million into Republican and Democrat interests, according...

Studies lacking on mental health among Natives
Native Americans suffer from the highest rates of suicide but finding out why is a difficult task due to lack of studies on the mental health of American Indians and...

Tribal labor law rider killed by wide margin in House
A last-minute attempt to shield tribes from the effects of a controversial labor law decision was rejected by a wide margin on Friday. Rep. J.D. Hayworth (R-Arizona), the Republican co-chair...

House Debate on Tribal Labor Law Amendment
The following is the official Congressional record on the debate of the tribal labor law amendment. It was defeated by a 256 to 146 vote on Friday, June 24, 2005...

Native astronaut stresses need for education
John Herrington, the first Native American to go into space, was the keynote speaker for the Oglala Lakota College's graduation on Sunday. Herrington, a member of the Chickasaw Nation,...

Pombo supports settlement of Cobell trust fund case
Rep. Richard Pombo (R-California), the chairman of the House Resources Committee, supports a settlement of the Cobell v. Norton trust fund case, a spokesperson said. Pombo has held hearings to...

Gay Native Americans take top spots in pride parades
Two gay Native Americans served as grand marshals for some of the largest gay pride parades in the country. Richard LaFortune, a Yupik from Alaska, served as grand marshal of...

Schaghticoke tribe wants to submit new evidence
The Schaghticoke Tribal Nation of Connecticut is asking a federal judge to delay a final decision on its federal recognition in order to allow the submission of additional evidence. The...

Harvard denies posthumous diploma to Native
Harvard University is refusing to grant a posthumous diploma to one of its very first Native students. Joel Iacoomes, a Wampanoag, studied at Harvard's Indian College, which was founded in...

Cherokee Nation offers deal to Delaware Tribe
The Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma says it will recognize the sovereignty of the Delaware Tribe if the Delaware Tribe drops its U.S. Supreme Court appeal. The Delawares were kicked off...

Goshute chairman to be sentenced for tax fraud
The chairman of the Skull Valley Goshute Tribe of Utah will be sentenced today for pleading guilty to a single count of tax fraud. Leon Bear, 49, faces up...

Shinnecock claim influenced by Oneida Nation decision
Although in the works for decades, the Shinnecock Nation of New York filed its land claim earlier this month in response to the U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision in the...

Opinion: Congress should put a halt to land claims
"For centuries, our legal system recognized, through statutes of limitation and related concepts, that it is unfair and economically destructive to hold the door open for the revival of long-dormant...

Tullis still has work to do for Poarch Creek Band
Eddie Tullis, the longtime leader of the Poarch Band of Creek Indians, says he still has a lot of work to do even though he is no longer chairman...

Utah 'medicine man' and wife called drug dealers
A self-proclaimed "medicine man" and his wife pleaded guilty on Friday to a host of drug charges after being arrested for possession and distribution of peyote. James "Flaming Eagle"...

Choctaws hire three ex-Abramoff lobbyists
The Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians has rehired not one but three former associates of disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff, whom the tribe has accused of fraud. The tribe hired...

Opinion: Ralph Reed helps launder tribal money
"Ralph Reed has said repeatedly that he had no direct knowledge of who financed his consulting work against gambling in Alabama, Texas and elsewhere, and that he would never...

Bit player takes center stage in Abramoff scandal
After the Senate Indian Affairs Committee concluded its June 22 hearing into the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal, the media rushed to talk to the one person who knew the...

Column: E-mail trail shows how to scam tribes
"Even by the most cynical Washington standards, the tale of the Indian tribes and the fat-cat lobbyists is a doozie. Imagine: Interested in protecting their lucrative casino gambling interests, the...

Investigation links Reed, Norquist to Abramoff
Ralph Reed and Grover Norquist are the latest Republicans to be drawn into the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal, as reveled by documents released by the Senate Indian Affairs Committee. The...

Political Play of the Week: Senate lifeguard
"Diogenes the Cynic is said to have wandered the streets of Athens, searching in vain for an honest man. Well, we found one -- 2,400 years later. In Washington,...

New Coushatta leaders already making changes
Days after taking office, the new leadership of the Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana fired a tribal court judge and five attorneys and is moving to regain control of its law...

Yellow Bird: Driving while talking a new hazard
"The most obvious cell phone offense is "driving while talking" or "inattention blindness." You take your eyes off the road to dial or to look up a number and find...

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