Tuesday, February 19, 2002

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As tribes head to Congress to seek ways to counteract a wave of recent rulings deemed destructive to tribal sovereignty, the Supreme Court is considering a new set of cases affecting key areas of Indian law....

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The Department of Interior can only "guess" whether the account balances of 300,000 American Indians are correct, Assistant Secretary Neal McCaleb said in an interview published on Friday....

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Secretary of Interior Gale Norton testifies in contempt trial, government promises landowners royalty checks, tribes take stage in Olympics, and Census 2000 looks at Indian Country....

Parents of students at Navajo Preparatory in Farmington, New Mexico, are worried the school could lose construction funds from the Bureau of Indian Affairs....

"For years I've supported my family by conducting seminars on intercultural and interracial communication....

"I don't know why women can't fly with the Titans, but if I could soar at speeds near 60 mph some 20 feet above the ground for the length of a football field, I would do it....

"I come to you today fresh from my own gold medal (flour) performance in the Men’s Freestyle Fry Bread Toss, in which I tossed down a record-breaking FIVE Indian tacos in less than FOUR minutes! Thank you, thank you – it’s my personal best – I’m so happy....

Two residents of the Omaha Reservation in Nebraska have pleaded guilty for their involvement in the death of a 21-year-old tribal member....

An attorney representing a New Mexico arts dealer who sold eagle feathers and sacred artifacts to an undercover FBI agent has asked a federal judge to dismiss his case....

Six Acoma Pueblo men are working full-time to restore the New Mexico tribe's nearly 400-year-old church....

A group of Alaska Natives protested President Bush's visit to Anchorage on Saturday because it forced the delay of an event honoring a Tlingit activist....

Voters of the Seneca Nation will not get a chance to approve a gaming compact with the state of New York because negotiations are still underway....

The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Reservation in Montana are working with a power company to come up with a drought plan to control flows of water over Kerr Dam....

The Pipestone National Monument in Minnesota is working with at least 27 tribes to update its visitors center, which contains exhibits and placements some feel are outdated and offensive....

The Oneida Nation of Wisconsin is protesting an agreement to settle a long standing claim over 250,000 acres of land in New York, and plans on filing new lawsuits against individual landowners....

Over the objections of Nevada politicians and officials who called him a liar, President Bush on Friday approved storing up to 77,000 tons of highly radioactive nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain in Nevada....

The Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe of South Dakota is looking to assume authority over all crimes on the reservation but doesn't have enough money to do so, according to a tribal official....

With the help of a computer program, the Nooksack Tribe of Washington is bringing back one of its nearly disappeared languages....

Don Loudner, a member of the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe of South Dakota and veteran of the Korean War, is one of 19 members on the national Advisory Committee on Minority Veterans....

The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of Montana are using a $5,000 donation from home financing company Fannie Mae to start up an inter-tribal mortgage-backing program....

New York Governor George Pataki (R) won't agree to finalize any one of three casinos in the Catskills if there are pending land claims by a tribe....

Utah's tribes are criticizing an economic development study commissioned by the State Legislature, saying it was developed without input from tribal leaders....

Confirmed as Navajo Code Talker by the U.S....

The National Park Service web sites are back online but it may time time for your email to dom.nessi@nps.gov to get through....

Former National Park Service Chief Information Officer: "From my past federal budget battles, I know that in a period of tight national budgets, it's unlikely that the Interior political leadership will talk about or address this massive core structural IT funding problem that has persisted over several decades....

Indianz.Com was taken over yesterday by a rogue group of hackers who once again wreaked havoc in Indian Country with another issue of Tomorrow....

The Supreme Court today declined to consider whether the Miami Nation of Indiana is a tribe for federal purposes....

Debate begins today on legislative proposals to expand gaming in Nebraska....