Friday, October 25, 2002

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The Bush administration on Thursday refused to endorse a controversial casino agreement that paves the way for the largest expansion of gaming in New York state history....

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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 largest gathering of Alaska Natives opened on Thursday with leaders vowing to thwart attacks on their right to self-determination....

"Raising Ourselves -- A Gwich'in Coming-of-Age Story From the Yukon River" is a new book by Alaska Native author Velma Wallis....

A new anti-casino group in Connecticut said its focus will include changing state laws to prevent tribes from economic development....

The backers of three gaming initiatives in Arizona raised more than $37 million, The Arizona Republic reported....

The Southern Ute Tribe of Colorado plans to continue discussions about a proposed hospital move....

The St.Croix Ojibwe Tribe of Wisconsin has reached an agreement with the state and two counties on emergency response planning....

The Democratic staff on the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee has released a report criticizing President Bush's rollback of environmental and health regulations finalized during the Clinton administration....

An American Indian activist who is serving a life sentence for murder can't get his journals back from his old attorney, a North Carolina judge ruled....

A Navajo Nation man facing federal charges for the deaths of two people has a history of drunk driving, The Farmington Daily-Times reported....

The Democrat candidate for Arizona's fifth Congressional District criticizes his opponent for accepting an enormous amount of campaign contributions....

The candidates for a county commission seat in New Mexico say cooperation with the Navajo Nation can improve road development....

The Shoshone-Bannock Nation of Idaho is requesting a state and federal probe into the treatment of Native students at a local high school....

Frederick Diaz, a nine-year-old member of the Apache Tribe, is featured in the November-December issue of Scholastic News....

The Bush administration confirmed a $159 billion deficit, the first since 1997....

A judge in Canada has dismissed the Anglican Church from abuse suits of Aboriginals who attended government boarding schools....

Representative Mike Thompson (D-California) has introduced a bill to provide $20 million in emergency financial assistance to tribes hit by the Klamath fish kill....

Governor Bill Graves (R) of Kansas has written President Bush to seek support in opposition a bill to settle a tribal land claim....

Results of a primary election on the Pine Ridge Reservation are in limbo because an election board said it can't guarantee the accuracy of a recount....

Washington tribes are opposing a state Supreme Court candidate whose views they say are anti-Indian and anti-sovereignty....

Evidence of voter fraud among Native Americans in South Dakota is being linked to a former Democratic party worker....

A dispute over a proposed casino in California has shelved an omnibus parks bill, The Washington Post reports....

The Alyeska Pipeline Service Company has increased Alaska Native employment from 5 percent ten years ago to 18 percent, the company president said at the Alaska Federation of Natives on Thursday....

Secretary of Interior Gale Norton's decision not to approve or deny the Seneca Nation gaming compact will make legal challenges easier, anti-gaming forces said....

Senator Frank Murkowski (R-Alaska) turned his scheduled Congressional update at the Alaska Federation of Natives into a campaign speech....

Paul Wellstone, one of the Senate's leading liberals and a member of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee, was killed in a plane crash in Minnesota on Friday along with his wife, daughter, three staff members and two pilots....

A drug and alcohol abuse center on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota will stay open thanks to a $63,000 grant....
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