Wednesday, February 13, 2002

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After telling tribes and a federal judge it couldn't process millions of dollars in royalty checks without the use of the Internet and a critical computer system, the Department of Interior on Tuesday said it had changed its mind....

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Secretary of Interior Gale Norton today becomes the first Cabinet member of the Bush administration to be forced to testify in court....

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Secretary of Interior Gale Norton took the stand today in her own contempt trial, answering questions posed by attorneys representing 300,000 American Indian beneficiaries and a federal judge....

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Deputy Interior Secretary Steven Griles said yesterday he hoped his recent court testimony will help convince a federal judge not to sanction his boss for her handling of the assets of 300,000 American Indians....

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Setting up a pattern of showdowns between Congress and the Bush administration, yet another Department of Interior official on Tuesday faced the fire over the trust fund debacle....

Facing several class action lawsuits, a group of companies on Tuesday agreed to a two-year phaseout of arsenic in wood products....

Analysts are attributing a 7.3 percent drop in gambling in Reno, Nevada, to competition from tribal casinos in California....

The Minnesota State Legislature's leading lawmaker has put his support behind an urban casino that would benefit the state and two impoverished tribes....

A survey commission by the Aquinnah Wampanoag Tribe of Massachusetts shows that 60 percent of registered voters would support one Indian casino in the state....

The Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohicans used to call New York their home before they were removed to Wisconsin....

The chips are down but the show must go on at the casino owned by the Tigua Tribe of Texas....

A federal judge on Tuesday questioned whether the Bush administration took serious a lawsuit seeking to make public records of the president's energy task force....

Three Connecticut towns trying to prevent the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation from seeking trust lands have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on their lawsuit....

"I have a suggestion for the leadership of the Crow Creek and Miller communities help to heal wounds and build friendships....

It's do or die on the House floor today, when a much anticipated vote over the Shays - Meehan campaign finance reform bill will occur....

The Department of Interior has appealed a federal judge's recent ruling giving the state of California more power over off-shore drilling....

Sharon Clahchischilliage is seeking the Republican nomination to run for New Mexico's secretary of state....

Kenneth Lay, the former chairman of failed energy company Enron, went before Congress on Tuesday but didn't respond to questions posed by the Senate Commerce Committee....

There are 729,533 people in America who claim some form of Cherokee heritage, according to a Census Bureau report being released today....

The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians of North Carolina and the National Park Service began the first of three scoping meetings on Tuesday to discuss a land swap....

Many Alaska Natives support federal management of subsistence resources but the Alaska Federation of natives is putting its weight behind Gov....

Tom Dostou, a Wabanaki elder from Massachusetts, is on a cross-country journey for peace....

Students at an elementary school in Anchorage, Alaska, were treated this week to a one-woman play portraying the life of Alaska Native rights activist Elizabeth Peratrovich....

A dispute over whether a parcel of land in New Mexico is considered Indian Country is being appealed....

Web sites for the National Park Service appear to be fully functional this week....

When the Department of Interior failed to find a workaround to thousands of stalled royalty checks, a number of tribes took action to use their own funds to pay tribal members....

A packed courtroom greeted Secretary of Interior Gale Norton today as she took the stand to defend herself in her contempt trial....

Anchorage, Alaska, has the highest proportion of American Indians and Alaska Natives living in cities with a population greater than 100,000, according to a Census Bureau report being released today....
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