Friday, September 13, 2002

Featured Story


Is it Friday already? That means it's time for the weekly list of the movers and shakers in Indian Country and beyond....

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Outspoken critics of the federal recognition process on Thursday announced their expected challenge to one of the Bush administration's most controversial decisions on the subject....

In a move immediately criticized as political pandering, Connecticut Governor John Rowland (R) for the first time said he was opposed to additional tribal casinos in the state....

The Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma says its claim to ancestral land in Kansas is being distorted....

The Department of Housing and Urban Development has awarded more than $3 million to Montana tribes to promote economic development and affordable housing....

Navajo Nation President Kelsey Begaye toured reservation communities hit hard by heavy rain and floods....

The Sioux Falls Argus Leader in an editorial today says the Oglala Lakota Tribe of South Dakota "deserves praise" for trying to improve its reservation economy....

Senators Pete Domenici (R-N.M.) and Ben Nighthorse Campbell (R-Colo.) successfully negotiated changes in energy policy to benefit Indian Country....

The new museum at the Haskell Indian Nations University is ready for visitors....

The White House is finalizing a report on the Tar Creek Superfund site in Oklahoma....

The National Museum of the American Indian's first pow-wow at its new site in Washington, D.C., is historic, organizers and participants say....

A new center at the University of Colorado reaches out to Native veterans in rural areas....

Recent sightings of rare birds in the Yup'ik village of Gambell in Alaska have the bird community excited....

California's Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indian signed an agreement with MGM Mirage for a casino....

Republican National Committee Chairman Marc Racicot disputed claims that the federal recognition process is influenced by political contributions....

The leaders of the Eastern Pequot tribes said they were confident their historic federal status would be upheld despite a challenge from the state of Connecticut....

The Blackfeet Nation tribal council voted to allow non-Indians to graze cattle on tribal land....

A federal judge on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit filed members of the Skull Valley Goshute Tribe of Utah....

Two controversial bills that benefit Alaska Natives passed the House Resources Committee on Thursday....

The state of New Mexico filed a motion in federal court on Thursday to limit Pojoaque Pueblo's water use....

Tesuque Pueblo in New Mexico plans to build a new church after its old one was destroyed by fire....

An Oklahoma lawmaker who said he would write a bill requiring Oklahoma tribal members to have 50 percent Indian blood has drawn significant discussion....

The attorney for ex-Crow Nation chairman Clifford Bird In Ground intends to produce expert testimony "relating to the mental condition of the defendant bearing upon the issue of guilt," The Billings Gazette reports today....

"General Bush was the supreme cavalry commander of all the cavalry in the United States of America....

A federal appeals court on Thursday handed another victory to a small Michigan tribe seeking to bring fairness to a casino-bidding process it was excluded from....

A federal judge on Thursday refused to order the Miss America pageant to allow a member of North Carolina's Lumbee Tribe to compete....