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February 23, 2006
Montana urban Indian clinics oppose Bush cut
Montana's urban Indian health clinic say they will be forced to cut back services or even shut down if President Bush succeeds in eliminating the $33 million urban Indian health...

Mohegan Tribe acquires 75 acres for reservation
The Mohegan Tribe of Connecticut acquired 75 more acres in trust for its reservation. Under its land claim settlement, the tribe can acquire up to 720 acres for its reservation....

Judge advances Chippewa trust mismanagement case
Four Chippewa tribes who were awarded $52 million for the loss of their lands can challenge the United States for allegedly mismanaging those funds, a federal judge ruled last month....

Appeals court to rehear Native Hawaiian school case
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals announced on Wednesday that it will rehear the Native Hawaiian admissions school policy case. A three-judge panel of the court ruled last August that...

San Manuel Band to pay for new stadium at school
The San Manuel Band of Mission Indians is donating $3 million to San Gorgonio High School to build a new athletic stadium. Tribal members attend the school, located in San...

Fake tribe allegedly behind arbitration scam
A group calling itself the Wampanoag Nation, Tribe of Grayhead, Wolf Band, is being accused in Utah of filing false claims against government officials, large corporations and other entities in...

Non-Indians reject authority of Tulalip Tribes police
Non-Indian residents of the Tulalip Reservation in Washington are planning to protest the authority of the tribal police to stop them for traffic violations. Non-Indians have consistently challenged the authority...

Editorial: Homeland Security for Yellowstone bison
"Here's another [Department of Homeland Security] news item closer to home: Homeland Security agents helping with Yellowstone National Park bison management. Estimated cost: $42,000. It's a bureaucratic story. Two Montana...

Editorial: Oglala Sioux Tribe loses police grant
"The Oglala Sioux Tribe is about to lose two-thirds of its police force when its federal grant for community policing runs out next month. The tribe's Department of Public Safety...

Tribal member leaves South Dakota governor's race
Ron Volesky, a member of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, has dropped out of the South Dakota governor's race, citing a lack of money. Volesky, 51, was seeking the...

Oneida Nation seeks waiver from local smoking law
The Oneida Nation is seeking a "smoking compact" with Oneida County so the tribe can allow smoking on tribal property, The Utica Observer-Dispatch reports. The tribe agrees it must comply...

Classes resume after threat at Leech Lake school
A girl accused of making a threat to carry out a shooting at the Bug-O-Nay-Ge-Shig School on the Leech Lake Ojibwe Reservation in Minnesota faces charges as early as today....

Blackfeet council member suspended indefinitely
The Blackfeet Nation council voted 7-1 to suspend Pat "Sam" Schildt indefinitely after a vote to oust him failed. The council spent four hours debating Schildt's fate on Tuesday. He...

Editorial: Canada to blame for reservation drugs
"Canada’s relaxed attitude toward street drugs might be no one’s concern but its own – if the consequences weren’t always spilling over the country’s border. As it happens, Canada’s relatively...

Utah to lobby BIA on Goshute nuclear waste facility
Politicians in Utah are planning to lobby the Bureau of Indian Affairs to oppose the nuclear waste facility on the Skull Valley Goshute Reservation. The BIA has to approve...

Wisconsin opposed to tribe's treatment as state
On behalf of Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle (D), the state Department of Natural Resources is opposing the Lac du Flambeau Chippewa Band's request to regulate water quality standards on the...

U.S. Attorney drops peyote charges against couple
In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in a religious freedom case, the U.S. Attorney's Office in Utah has dropped federal charges filed against a couple accused...

Opinion: Abramoff, Native Americans and Jewish people
"Like many Jewish kids, I always identified with the Indian. When I was in the fourth grade I proudly ran around the backyard wearing a Cherokee headdress that my parents...

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