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March 13, 2006
Trust fund debacle consumed Norton at Interior
Gale Norton's bitter confirmation fight and close Senate vote gave her a hint of the controversy she would encounter as Secretary of the Department of the Interior but they were...

Norton's resignation exposes Indian leadership void
Interior Secretary Gale Norton announced her resignation on Friday, a move that highlights the leadership void at the department with primary responsibility for Indian affairs. Although Norton was a constant...

Pine Ridge Student: Native American equal rights
"For me, equal rights has been a vague principle for my living situation. I am a 17-year-old Native American girl, and I live in one of the country's most poverty-stricken...

District adopts plan to improve Indian education
The school district in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, has adopted a five-year plan to keep Indian students in school. The drop out rate among Indian students is extremely high. Of...

Fans, family travel far to support Navajo team
More than 1,000 fans, family and friends from the Navajo community Navajo, New Mexico, traveled to support their boys basketball team in the state championships. The Navajo Pine High...

UN panel criticizes US over Western Shoshones
The United Nation Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination issued an "early warning and urgent action" last week to the United States for its handling of Western Shoshone land...

Litefoot organizes boycott of GUN video game
Cherokee rap artist/producer Litefoot is leading a boycott of a video game that depicts Indians as savages Gun, produced by Activision, is a first-player action game that takes place in...

Blind veteran lends helping hand to fellow veterans
Ernie Flynn, an Assiniboine/Sioux from the Fort Peck Reservation in Montana, has spent 10 years helping fellow veterans get the care and services they need. Flynn served in the...

First Peoples Fund awards cultural fellowships
The First Peoples Fund has awarded the 2006 Cultural Capital fellowship to four Native artists. Arthur Short Bull, Oglala Lakota, is from the Pine Ridge Reservation. He will use the...

Column: A happy 75th birthday to Billy Frank Jr.
"I was among the 300 or so people invited to Billy Frank Jr.’s 75th birthday bash Friday night at Little Creek Casino near Shelton. The standing-room only crowd clearly...

Seneca Nation criticizes tobacco shipment bill
The Seneca Nation says a new bill that bars the shipment of cigarettes and other tobacco products through the U.S. Postal Service violates treaty rights. Seneca President Barry Snyder Sr....

Bush to look West to fill Interior Department position
President Bush plans to pick a Westerner to head the Interior Department, the White House chief of staff said. The job of Interior Secretary has often gone to someone from...

Oklahoma tribal leaders sad to see Norton leave
Leaders of two Oklahoma tribes praised Interior Secretary Gale Norton for her five years at the Interior Department. Choctaw Nation Chief Greg Pyle said Norton was "extremely hard-working" and "very...

St. Regis Mohawk Tribe gets drug smuggling grant
The St. Regis Mohawk Tribe in New York has been awarded a $263,000 grant by the Bureau of Indian Affairs to combat drug trafficking on the Akwesasne Reservation. The tribe's...

Lance Morgan: Indian Country now has the 'Meth Diet'
Ed. Note: Lance Morgan is the CEO of Ho-Chunk Inc., the economic development corporation of the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska. Morgan is Winnebago. On Indianz.com the drug meth has been...

Norton denies Abramoff played a role in resignation
Interior Secretary Gale Norton said her resignation has nothing to do with the Jack Abramoff scandal that touched the Interior Department. Norton defended former deputy secretary J. Steven Griles, who...

Former White House official arrested for thefts
Claude Allen, a former White House and former Health and Human Services official, was arrested last week on charges that he stole more than $5,000 in merchandise from Washington,...

Editorial: Norton leaves behind an unhappy legacy
"Like her mentor, James Watt, the maniacally anti-environmental interior secretary under Ronald Reagan, Gale Norton came to Washington convinced that the pendulum of public policy had swung too far in...

Editorial: Norton missed chance to settle Cobell lawsuit
"Gale Norton's resignation as U.S. Interior secretary likely won't affect the government's pro-development policies, but it raises uncertainty about other important issues. Norton's support for oil drilling in the Arctic...

Mark Trahant: Bush and human rights in Pakistan
"President Bush should have stayed in Pakistan another week. In a joint statement with Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf, they talked about their visit and important issues ranging from improving a...

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