Friday, January 25, 2002

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The Department of Interior today plans to turn on a major computer system that has been idle for more than a month, hoping some royalty payments can be sent to Indian Country as soon as possible....

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The White House has ordered a federal review of all contracts with Arthur Andersen and Enron....

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The overall health of racial and ethnic minorities improved over the past decade, according to a federal report released on Thursday, with the exception of American Indians and Alaska Natives, who saw no progress in some areas and declines in others....

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Is it Friday already? That means it's time for the weekly list of the movers and shakers in Indian Country and beyond....

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The Department of Interior is moving to close thousands of Indian trust accounts even though it can't guarantee the balance of any is correct and has yet to start the massive undertaking required to do so....

Predatory lending practices in the home mortgage industry were the subject of a meeting held in Oklahoma on Thursday....

As expected, students at San Diego State University aren't exactly jumping for joy about their new cultural symbol Montezuma....

A 911 operator who took one of the calls from two Aboriginal sisters killed in a domestic violence dispute testified on Thursday that there are no dedicated 911 operators at some of the most busy times of the year....

Felix Edmund has resigned from his job as Alakanuk village police chief after being cited for smoking marijuana with a 15-year-old....

Citing irreparable harm to its economy and well-being, the state of Nevada asked a federal appeals court on Thursday to stop Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham from recommending the nation's nuclear waste be buried there....

Land in western Alaska owned by Alaska Natives holds some of the densest gold deposits, according to a company that wants to mine the metal....

The Olympic torch came to Alaska for the first time on Thursday, aided in its journey by the Juneau Tlingit Warriors....

Leaders of municipalities in southeastern Connecticut are praising Governor John Rowland (R) for moving to increase their share of money taken in from two tribal casinos....

A draft report prepared for the federal government says tribal members exposure to radiation from the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington may have been underestimated....

A settlement over a lawsuit filed by the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation and a developer may be near....

The Cowlitz Tribe of Washington has filed a lawsuit against the state Department of Fish and Wildlife over treaty rights....

The Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohicans of Wisconsin gained approval in two places for its $600 million casino in the Catskills region of New York....

The Northern Cheyenne Tribe of Montana was praised for developing water standards at a public hearing in Billings on Thursday....

Proponents of legislation to reform the way federal political campaigns are financed won a significant victory in the House on Thursday....

The boarding school styles of Navajo comic Vincent "You look somehow" Craig will serve as the entertainment tonight at the 85th anniversary party of the Museum of Fine Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico....

Two Congressional committees on Thursday held hearings into the fall of energy giant Enron Corp., the most exciting being the one into shredding which occurred at accounting firm Arthur Andersen....

A Mi'kmaq First Nations police force has jurisdiction over the entire Nova Scotia province, a provincial court judge ruled on Thursday....

The FCC will be refunding a billion dollar investment to three Alaska Native corporations for a failed wireless deal, InfoWorld Daily News reports....

A protest on Thursday by Native Americans at the Statehouse in Indiana convinced a state lawmaker to amend a bill to create a commission of Indian affairs....

The ABC television network is hosting a Native talent showcase featuring "Smoke Signals" filmmaker Chris Eyre in Los Angeles, California, on Monday....

The US Commission on Civil Rights has subpoenaed Secretary of Interior Gale Norton to appear at a hearing on environmental justice but she won't appear due to a scheduling conflict....

It was much colder in terms of temperature but the reaction of Alaska Natives to Secretary of Interior Gale Norton's proposal to reorganize Indian trust was much the same as elsewhere in the nation....

The Department of Interior said it is ready to start processing grazing checks for individual Indians but the chairman of the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska isn't ready to make the trip to the bank....

Appointing a receiver to take over the Individual Indian Money (IIM) trust is not the way to reform the system, and neither is a reorganization, the Department of Interior's first Special Trustee says....

A New Mexico state judge on Thursday approved majority-Indian voting districts suggested by the Navajo Nation and Jicarilla Apache Nation....
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