Friday, August 16, 2002

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A federal judge late last month ruled that the Department of Interior breached its fiduciary responsibilities to Indian beneficiaries for delaying payment of a trust fund....

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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....

The 17 tribes of the Arizona Indian Gaming Association have launched a television ad campaign to convince voters to approve their casino ballot initiative....

The younger brother of guitar great Jimi Hendrix plans to file suit against the Hendrix family estate today, claiming he was denied a rightful share after their father died....

Indian lawmakers make up a quarter of the seats in Bolivia's new Congress, a first in history....

The Mohegan Tribe of Connecticut saw a 28 percent increase in slot machine earnings last month but the amount was smaller than projected, The New London Day reports....

The Department of Justice has awarded Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) grants to tribes....

The Confederated Umatilla Tribes of Washington want a co-management role at the Hanford Reach National Monument....

Surplus homes from an Air Force base are being sent to several tribes to alleviate housing concerns....

The president of an Alaska Native non-profit corporation resigned this week....

The US Bureau of Justice has awarded the Navajo Nation Boys and Girls Clubs $500,000....

The Siksika First Nation of Alberta has taken a Canadian hotel chain to court to prevent damage to a glacier lake....

"I am writing in regard to the two Aug....

The Ely Shoshone Tribe is using $1.3 million in federal grants to build a 6,200-square-foot business and travel center....

The Seminole Nation of Oklahoma is appealing an $8 million fine levied by federal Indian gaming regulators....

The Coeur d'Alene Tribe of i Idaho has reclaimed a key part of its history....

Supreme Court precedent dictates that tribes are the first in line when it comes allocation of scarce water resources....

The 81st annual Indian Market officially began in Santa Fe, New Mexico, on Thursday....

Police in Alaska took 48 minutes to arrive at the home of an Alaska Native corporate executive who was killed earlier this month....

Members of the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation of North Dakota still feel the effects of a decades-old decision to build the Garrison Dam on the Missouri River....

"American schoolchildren are taught the American myth that ours is "a nation of laws, not men." When I was a law student, my teachers attempted valiantly to have me regard the law as something larger than life, something reflecting ancient wisdom and administered by men (and the occasional woman) of great moral and intellectual integrity....

The historic failures of the Indian trust fund system are rooted in racism, according to Elouise Cobell, the lead plaintiff in the landmark Cobell v. Norton lawsuit....

The Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation voted this week to change the spelling of the name of one of its most famous citizens....
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