Friday, April 11, 2003

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This week, the place to be was definitely not NIGA '03....

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With two major Indian conferences this week, the NIGA Annual Golf Scramble and Trade Show (oh yeah they have a meeting too.) and the FedBar, we have a very special episode of Winners and Losers....

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The Bush administration doesn't plan on finalizing land-into-trust regulations that have been in limbo for more than three years, an official said on Thursday....

A confidential out-of-court settlement has been reached in the wrongful death suit of a Lakota man who died under suspicious circumstances....

The Department of Interior on Thursday released the operational plan for the Klamath Reclamation Project in the Klamath Basin....

Regulations approved by the state of California require companies to restore mining sites....

The state of Connecticut has expanded the water-service authority of the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation, The New London Day reports....

A South Carolina House subcommittee passed a bill to place American Indian affairs under the state Minority Affairs Commission....

Ousted Seminole chief Jim Billie can't run for a seat on the Florida tribe's council, the council has determined....

Phillip Charles Bread, a member of the Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma, was sentenced to a year and a day in federal prison and ordered to pay $2,000 on a bribery charge....

The Sac and Fox Nation of Oklahoma will use a $2.3 million grant from the Department of Housing and Urban Development to help low-income families and elderly and disabled tribal members....

The Honor the Earth Tour, featuring Native activist Winona LaDuke and the Indigo Girls, stops on the Rosebud Sioux Reservation in South Dakota today....

The House voted on Thursday to allow drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge....

A former jail guard for the Puyallup Tribe of Washington pleaded not guilty to sexual assault of a female inmate....

A federal judge delayed the sentencing of Clifford Bird in Ground, ex-chairman of the Crow Tribe of Montana, in order to give his attorney more time to consider withdrawing his guilty plea of accepting bribes....

Senator Joe Lieberman (D-Connecticut) has asked the Department of Interior to look into its ethics policies following reports highlighting questionable behaviors of Deputy Secretary J....

About 125 members of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe of South Dakota are in the military, tribal chairman Charles Murphy said....

The Senate late Thursday approved the nomination of Ross Swimmer as special trustee at the Department of Interior....

Peggy Nelson: "Please, give us a break....

Lori Piestewa, the Hopi woman killed in action in Iraq, was honored at the recent Northern Arizona University pow-wow....

A memorial service will be held for Lori Piestewa, a member of the Hopi Tribe of Arizona, who was killed in action in Iraq....

A police officer in Rapid City, South Dakota, who shot a Lakota man is not racist, Indian acquaintances say....