Thursday, January 23, 2003

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A federal judge this week directed the Bureau of Indian Affairs to take another look at a proposed casino development that has drawn high-stakes opposition in Michigan....

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It shouldn't surprise anyone but in case you didn't know, former Assistant Secretary Neal McCaleb has a new job....

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Four Pacific Northwest tribes have asked a federal appeals court to halt studies of a 9,000-year-old man pending a full review of the controversial case....

The state of Idaho is asking the Idaho Supreme Court to dismiss a challenge to a voter initiative that expanded Indian gaming....

The Senate Judiciary Committee is moving forward the nomination of some of President Bush's appointees to the federal bench....

Attorneys for the state of Wisconsin filed a report in defense of the Indian industry....

A Nebraska lawmaker introduced a bill on Wednesday to allow all 93 counties in the state to license casinos....

A Hard Rock hotel and beach club is coming to the Choctaw Reservation in Mississippi....

Hundreds of tribal leaders, lobbyists and other casino representatives are meeting in California this week for the 8th annual Western Indian Gaming Conference....

The Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin is interested in opening a casino in Illinois but few are willing to talk to the press about it....

Representative David Vitter (R-Louisiana) said he will oppose the Jena Choctaw Tribe's latest casino proposal....

A Wyoming senator has dropped a proposal to block the Northern Arapaho Tribe from opening a casino....

A former Bureau of Indian Affairs employee in Montana pleaded guilty to receiving receiving obscene materials....

A new exhibit at the Philbrook Art Museum in Tulsa combines traditional and contemporary Native art styles....

Research published in today's issue of Nature documents a new species of flying dinosaur with four wings and feathers like a bird....

The Oneida Nation of New York is donating $3 million to the Harvard University Law School in Massachusetts....

Critics of the federal recognition process say they still support reforms even though two tribes they oppose have been denied status....

By moving to deny federal recognition to the Golden Hill Paugussett Tribe of Connecticut, the Bureau of Indian Affairs finally appears to be following its own regulations, The Norwich Bulletin says in an editorial today....

A Yup'ik Eskimo woman was found dead in a trailer home in Anchorage, Alaska, this week....

The Mohegan Tribe of Connecticut has purchased the Orlando Miracles WNBA team, The New London Day reports....

The North Carolina Supreme Court on Wednesday stayed the execution of a member of the Lumbee Tribe....

Supporters and detractors of a proposed tribal casino in Michigan found something to like in a federal judge's decision on Tuesday to require additional study....

Citing increased profits from its casino, the Quapaw Tribe of Oklahoma distributed nearly $50,000 to the local community this past Saturday....

The Senate Indian Affairs Committee has scheduled its first business meeting of the 108th Congress....

The Farmington Museum in Farmington, New Mexico, is exhibiting traditional Navajo sand paintings....
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