Friday, October 11, 2002

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After years of denying its obligations to American Indians, the Department of Interior has announced the completion of an "historical accounting" for some members of an Arizona tribe....

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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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A federal court is investigating whether Secretary of Interior Gale Norton approved a report that contained misleading information about efforts to fix the broken Indian trust fund....

The Yurok Tribe of California declared a state of emergency in response to the recent deaths of as many as 30,000 salmon on the Klamath River....

The Ponca Tribe of Nebraska is waiting for the Bureau of Indian Affairs to take land into trust....

The Santee Tribe of Nebraska has installed machines at its tiny casino that may be illegal in the state....

Members of the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma are being asked to sign a petition to oust chief Jerry Haney....

Both chambers of Congress voted on a resolution to grant President Bush the authority to use force against Iraq....

The Department of Housing and Urban Development has awarded a $600,000 grant to the Northern Arapaho Tribe of Wyoming....

A two-ton, 22-foot statue of an Indian was finally put on top of the Kansas Statehouse on Thursday....

"I am responding to the article in the Argus Leader about the National Indian Gaming Organization doing a fund-raising event for Stephanie Herseth in attempts to "retire" Gov....

Mashantucket Pequot chairman Kenneth M....

Arizona's tribes and the racetrack industry have raised $32.1million in an effort to convince voters to keep Indian gaming alive....

A federal judge won't allow the United Band of Keetoowahs to intervene in lawsuit over the Arkansas River bed....

The Blackfeet Tribe of Montana is undertaking a study for a new medical center to serve the region....

The Republican opponent of Senator Max Baucus (D-Montana) had dropped out of the race over an ad that makes him look a corrupt gay man....

Jeff Strickler of The Minneapolis Star Tribune gives "Skins," the new movie from Chris Eyre, three stars out of four, calling it a "real" movie about "real" people who just happen to be Indian....

A member of the Puyallup Tribe of Washington was arrested on Thursday for what one official called the largest fraud investigated by state auditors....

The Senate Indian Affairs Committee on Thursday held a hearing to address legislation to settle a Michigan tribe's land claim....

We're here! We're Italian! We're marching in Denver, Colorado, tomorrow to remember Christopher Columbus....

Senator and candidate for Alaska governor Frank Murkowski was president of a bank that breached its trust to an Alaska Native village corporation....

The Kickapoo Tribe of Kansas on Thursday criticized federal legislation that would pave the way for another casino in the state....

Three white teens in Canada have been arrested for a paint-ball attack on the Blood First Nation Reserve in Alberta....

Senior Department of Interior managers are resisting reform of their agency's law enforcement duties, according to Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa)....

The Department of Interior on Thursday said it was undertaking a full-scale review of all land exchanges in 12 Western states after a damaging report that called for a criminal investigation into appraisal practices....

The Department of Interior announced on Thursday it has mailed what is purported to be an accounting of funds for 560 members of Arizona's White Mountain Apache Tribe....

San Carlos Apache elders spoke to a University of Minnesota regents committee to express their opposition to a telescope project on sacred land....