Thursday, August 15, 2002

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A federal judge on Tuesday ordered an Oglala Lakota family to stop planting and harvesting hemp on their South Dakota ranch after tests showed traces of marijuana and cocaine....

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Tribes have jurisdiction over roads maintained by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, a divided federal appeals court ruled on Wednesday....

The race for Arizona's 1st Congressional District is attracting attention from the national political parties....

The Nebraska State Legislature approached the end of its special session on Wednesday with some final debate on Indian gaming....

Research being published in Nature ties two genetic mutations to the ability for humans to speak....

A $120 million loan secured by the Tulalip Tribes of Washington is the largest financing package in state history....

A city in New Mexico has approved a contract to lease water from the Jicarilla Apache Nation....

The Special House Commission to Study Gaming is holding 28 public hearings over a nine-month period to study the impact of gaming in Rhode Island....

The Seminole Nation of Oklahoma has been ordered to close its four gaming facilities....

The Navajo Nation is proposing to spend $450,151 in the coming year to control animals on the three-state reservation....

Wisconsin state officials are upset that their talks with several tribes over a burial ground have become public....

The Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation of Connecticut saw a two percent drop in slot machine revenues last month compared to July 2001....

A Utah city declared August 14 "Navajo Code Talker Day" to honor one of its most noted residents, Code Talker Allen Dale June....

The Army Corps of Engineers on Wednesday suspended work on part of the $8 billion Everglades restoration project, a move the Miccosukee Tribe of Florida said was an attempt to put pressure on homeowners....

Members of Pennsylvania's Lena'pe Tribe are on a 330-mile canoe trip down the Delaware River....

"So you think your great-grandmother was a Cherokee Indian princess? Think again....

The Quapaw Tribe of Oklahoma is protesting the removal of a project manager at one of the worst toxic waste sites in the country....

Government prosecutors on Wednesday filed a response to a court apology by a former Bureau of Indian Affairs employee who pleaded guilty to the murders of four people....

A member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe of South Dakota has been missing for more than a month, National Native News reports....

Elouise Cobell, the lead plaintiff in the Individual Indian Money (IIM) lawsuit, is meeting with account holders in Oklahoma next week....

The Menominee Nation of Wisconsin has a new tough seat belt law....
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