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Attorneys for Secretary of Interior Gale Norton launched the government's long-awaited contempt defense on Thursday with the unsurprising request that the major charges against her and Assistant Secretary Neal McCaleb be dismissed....

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Leaving out some details about his department's handling of the debacle, Assistant Secretary Neal McCaleb on Thursday tried to assure concerned tribal leaders that making royalty payments to Indian Country was a top priority....

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1Setting off a political storm whose resolution will be decided by Congress, and perhaps the courts, Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham on Thursday informed Nevada Gov....

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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....

A Connecticut man and his family have sued a local planning commission for approving a golf course and resort proposed by the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation, saying parcels of the land belong to them....

"I've stopped being surprised by folks who want to blame harvest for the shape wild salmon stocks are in these days....

Grace Glueck of The New York Times reviews an exhibit of Iroquois beadwork from historic times to the present, noting the fashion sense and function of tribal craft....

A Connecticut group claiming to be a sovereign tribe is being fined an additional $1,800 in fines for three vehicles abandoned on a piece of property in the city of Norwich....

Calling the situation an emergency, the Oglala Lakota Tribe of South Dakota is asking the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Centers for Disease Control for help in dealing with a mold infesting homes on the reservation....

The Office of Civil Rights within the Department of Education has asked school districts in South Dakota to provide data about their use of Indian-themed mascots, symbols, performances and other representations....

A final election in a dispute over the leadership of the Mescalero Apache Nation of New Mexico has returned what the loser is calling an incredulous result....

A bank in Santa Ana Pueblo of New Mexico was robbed on Thursday by a man who took an undisclosed amount of cash....

A White Earth Ojibwe couple who lost their 22-year-old son to a traffic accident told a judge on Wednesday of the lawless nature of their tribe's reservation and said the death could have been preventable....

The fallout over the bankruptcy of Enron Corp increased in breadth on Thursday with a number of revelations that may prove damaging to the Bush administration and increase the liability of the company....

Public schools in Wyoming are being urged by a dentist to stop selling soda pop in vending machines because the drink is high in sugar and unhealthy....

The Washington State Gambling Commission on Thursday voted unanimously to approve compacts with two tribes....

The Washington Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously upheld the dual conviction of a tribal hunter, saying it was not prohibited by the double jeopardy clause of the Constitution....

A funeral was held in Gallup, New Mexico, on Wednesday for three Navajo children who were allegedly murdered by their mother....

January 10 was declared Lower Brule Sioux Tribe Day, in honor of the South Dakota tribe's help in distributing general assistance checks to Indian Country....

In an editorial, The Bismarck Tribune calls on the Department of Interior to fix its long-standing computer problems that led to an Internet shutdown, now in its second month....

Reaction from Nevada regarding the Bush administration's decision to push forward a nuclear dump in the state was swift, harsh and to the point....

Schools belonging to the National Collegiate Athletic Association are being urged by the president of St....

Jim Shore, general counsel to the Seminole Tribe of Florida, was still hospitalized on Thursday after being shot several times in what has been described as a mob-style, planned hit....

The fourth meeting over a proposal to create a new Indian trust agency was held in South Dakota on Thursday and was a repeat of prior sessions in terms of opposition....

A deal to settle the water rights of two Oklahoma tribe and sell the water to Texas is running into obstacles from the state and, reportedly, the prospective buyer....

The former Bureau of Indian Affairs official who decided to recognize the Duwamish Tribe of Washington on the last day of the Clinton administration is charging that staff members altered a document he authored....

Utah's Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case challenging whether non-Indians can use peyote....

The city of Boulder, Colorado, has reached an agreement to consult with area tribes and other representatives on cultural sites....

A coalition of environmental groups has again filed suit against the federal government for approving a whale hunt by the Makah Nation of Washington....

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The British tabloids, always ripe for tales about marital infidelities, are all over the latest divorce scandal to hit the United Kingdom....

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US District Judge Royce Lamberth on Wednesday questioned the state of the Department of Interior's Internet-related shutdown, suggesting the delay in restoring access was a political ploy....

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The FBI was justified in meting out light punishment and in some cases, none at all, to agents who charged the government $3,217 for attending a retirement dinner but reported it as official training, a Congressional investigation released on Wednesday concluded....

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Attorneys representing 300,000 American Indians rested their case in Secretary of Interior Gale Norton's contempt today, calling to the stand their final witness....

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Secretary of Interior Gale Norton's grueling contempt trial appears near an end with attorneys representing 300,000 American Indian trust beneficiaries ready to rest their case....

The Montana Highway Patrol and Bureau of Indian Affair authorities are investigating the death of a woman on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation in Montana....

Tribal leaders held a meeting in Rapid City, South Dakota, on Wednesday in preparation to discuss a proposed reorganization of the Bureau of Indian Affairs....

The government of Colombia has ended peace talks with a rebel group that has been accused of terrorizing Indian tribes, President Andrés Pastrana said on Thursday....

Historian Stephen Ambrose is acknowledging he may not have properly attributed information in his books, including one on the Battle of Little Bighorn....

The Department of Justice has launched a criminal probe into the collapse of the energy company Enron, officials confirmed yesterday....

Employees of the casino owned by the Mohegan Tribe of Connecticut are getting a raise of 4 percent despite economic concerns....

Compensation for people who got work after being exposed to nuclear radiation on Amchitka Island in Alaska is arriving to complaints about the process....

The Supreme Court on Wednesday overturned the death sentence of a South Carolina man convicted of murdering a pregnant woman, saying a jury was not informed properly of sentencing options....

President Bush and his brother, Florida Gov....

A plan to allow more oil and gas drilling in the Jack Morrow Hills of Wyoming's Red Desert has been met with enormous opposition, including concerns by tribes....

A two-year study by the National Research Council, a division of the National Academy of Sciences, has recommended the flows of the Missouri River be returned to its natural state in order to protect endangered species....

A Connecticut group claiming to be a sovereign tribe has formed its own motor vehicle division, issuing license plates and registrations....

The Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments on Wednesday passed a resolution calling on the Washington Redskins football team to drop its name because it is "demeaning and dehumanizing" to Native Americans....

A former governor of Acoma Pueblo in New Mexico has been indicted by a federal grand jury for allegedly embezzling $8,000 from the tribe....

Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham could make a decision on the Yucca Mountain project in Nevada as early as today, Congressional aides told the Associated Press....

A fired nuclear employee, being held on charges he threatened fellow workers, says he is being targeted in a terrorist probe because he is Native American....

Runners from the Northern Cheyenne Tribe of Montana have completed the re-enactment of an escape their ancestors attempted after being imprisoned by the U.S....

The New Mexico State Supreme Court has asked both sides of a gaming dispute to submit responses by January 22....

A Montana state lawmaker is being criticized for saying that tribal members who are returning to reservations are "incapable" of working like "normal outside people." "They’re unwilling or incapable of working like normal outside people do," Sen....

The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday heard oral arguments in a case to determine whether a casino owned by the Tigua Tribe of Texas can remain open....

A man accused of shooting another to death on the Mescalero Apache Reservation in southern New Mexico has pleaded guilty to several tribal crimes and has been fined....

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Former Secretary of Interior Bruce Babbitt and his top aide won't be called as witnesses by the Indian trust plaintiffs, an attorney representing 300,000 account holders said today....

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The Internet woes at the Department of Interior aren't just affecting Indian landowners, they've also hit Native American Systems (NAS), one of the largest ($34 million in annual sales, according to corporate figures) Native-owned computer technology firms in the country....

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Despite claiming the disbursement of millions in dollars in payment to American Indians has been a top priority, the Department of Interior waited nearly a month to ask a federal court to sign off on a plan to ensure speedy delivery of the funds....

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The Department of Interior's top trust official testified on Tuesday that he lacked "confidence" in the government's plan to fix more than a century of mismanagement of Indian trust funds....

The Postal Service on Tuesday announced it would raise the price of a first class stamp to 37 cents and lay off as many as 15,000 workers....

It's only temporary but David Gomez of Taos Pueblo is head of the New Mexico Democratic Party....

The Seminole Tribe of Florida has filled its administrator position amid a lawsuit against the past holder of the post and ousted chairman Jim Billie....

Vice President Dick Cheney and his aides met with the failed energy company, Enron Corp., six times last year to discuss energy policy, a letter sent to Congress disclosed....

Two Democrat-led Senate committees and Attorneys General from states in the Northeast said they would fight any attempt by the Bush administration to limit clean air regulations affecting power plants....

Research being published today in The Journal of the American Medical Association indicates that genetics may contribute to low birth weight in infants of mothers who smoke....

The number of people being treated for depression has increased three-fold in the past decade, according to a study by a group of health researchers at educational institutions....

In a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court on Tuesday limited the scope of the Americans with Disabilities Act, ruling that the law doesn't require employees to accommodate ailments or injuries that don't impair a "major life activity." Overturning a lower court decision, the Justices said the meaning of disabled under the 1990 law must fit into certain categories such as walking, doing household chores, bathing or brushing teeth....

President Bush on Tuesday signed into law a major reform of the nation's public school systems, one of his key campaign promises....

Police in Wright County, Minnesota, are treating as suspicious the death of a Native man in his mid-20s....

A trial regarding the political maps in New Mexico continued on Tuesday with a demographic expert testifying on behalf of the Navajo Nation....

Two different governmental entities of the To'hajiilee chapter of the Navajo Nation are fighting over who gets to broker a development deal with a gaming company....

A federal judge on Monday suspended the sale of timber from a fire-ravaged national forest, saying a top U.S....

With seemingly no end to the debacle in sight, the computer shutdown at the Department of Interior is making the rounds in the media, a full month after a federal judge ordered an Internet disconnect....

The Energy Department won't address nearly 300 questions raised by Congressional investigators because they relate to the licensing of a national nuclear waste repository and not the site's suitability, an official said....

By a vote of 10-2, with five members abstaining, the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments passed a resolution today calling on the Redskins football team to choose a name not offensive to Native Americans....

In an editorial today, The Los Angeles Times says the Department of Interior's response to a court order requiring the protection of individual Indian trust data "seems like an overreaction." By pulling the plug on all its computer systems, including web sites, the department has brought up "serious issues," the paper says, that go beyond Indian trust....

"The Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments is to decide today whether to call on Washington's football team to put an end to the use of the "Redskins" nickname because of the perceived negatives associated with the name....

The Montana Supreme Court on Tuesday heard arguments in a case over a herd of elk donated to the Crow Tribe....

Rep Jim Hansen (R-Utah), chairman of the House panel with jurisdiction over Indian issues, on Tuesday announced his resignation from Congress at the end of the year....

Mille Lacs Ojibwe chairwoman Melanie Benjamin gave her State of the Band address on Tuesday, focusing largely on a legal challenge by a Minnesota county....

A joint venture of Alaska Native corporations is asking the Federal Communications Corporation to refund $550 million the company paid in a wireless license auction....

Montana state officials on Tuesday said they rounded up and killed six bison males that wandered out of Yellowstone National Park because they tested positive a disease that can harm cattle....

The cleanup of a mine next to the Fort Belknap Reservation in Montana will cost $33.5 million more than the state has to reclaim the operation that gutted sacred peaks....

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Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham toured a proposed national nuclear waste dump in Nevada on Monday and said he was ready to make a decision on the controversial issue....

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The battle over millions of dollars in delayed trust fund payments continued on Monday with attorneys for 300,000 account holders asking a federal judge to punish top Department of Interior officials if money isn't distributed soon....

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The Department of Interior is hosting its fourth consultation over the proposed Bureau of Indian Trust Assets Management (BITAM) in Rapid City, South Dakota, on January 10....

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EDS Corporation, a consulting firm Secretary of Interior Gale Norton hired to assess trust reform, is due to present a final version of its report to officials on Thursday....

The Energy Department and the Environmental Protection Agency have made suggestions to reform clean air regulations, changes the industry has sought but which environmentalists and some states oppose....

The city council of Florence has asked the state of Oregon to challenge a land-into-trust decision the Department of Interior approved for the Confederated Coos Tribes....

The Oneida Nation of New York is undergoing an expansion of its Turning Stone casino to include a clubhouse and larger gaming floor....

Finding out who goes to casinos, how much they spend and where they spend it is a vital part of many gaming operations, as California tribes are learning....

Margaret Coel's latest mystery is set on the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming, featuring a Catholic priest and an Indian lawyer as sidekicks....

Federal and Alaska officials are hosting a public meeting on Wednesday for persons who worked on a nuclear project on Amchitka Island before Jan....

"When your family grows small and you don't have a regular dinner to make each evening, sometimes a bowl of popcorn and a can of diet Pepsi is a pretty good supper to me....

The Supreme Court on Monday heard oral arguments in a case testing the limits of property rights....

Edward T Begay, the Speaker of the Navajo Nation Council, testified in New Mexico state court on Monday about the need for more House districts with a Navajo majority....

Testimony began on Monday in a trial challenging the political districts in Alaska....

A Navajo mother accused of murdering three of her children was a victim of domestic violence, a FBI agent testified in federal court on Monday....

The Gila River Indian Community of Arizona hasn't given up its sovereign immunity and can't be sued, a federal appeals court ruled on Monday....

Terrorism issues will be part of the decision-making process on a proposed national nuclear waste repository, Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham said on Monday....

A spokesperson for the Department of Interior told The Washington Post that payments to individual Indians will be made as soon as the special master in the class action lawsuit agrees to allow computer systems to be reconnected....

The scandal-ridden former spy chief of Peru was considered a "valued ally" by the United States in its war on drugs, according to documents the State Department has provided to Peruvian investigators....

A woman on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation in Montana pleaded guilty in federal court on Monday to two counts of possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute....

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The contempt trial against Secretary of Interior Gale Norton resumed today in federal court with government attorneys finally getting a chance to question a senior trust official....

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The new year is upon us so that means it's time for a fresh start here at In The Hoop....

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If the Department of Interior cannot make payments to as many as 300,000 beneficiaries to the Individual Indian Money (IIM) trust as soon as possible, top officials should be thrown in jail, attorneys for the account holders said today....

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Secretary of Interior Gale Norton's contempt trial resumed on Friday as a federal judge accused top government officials of game-playing by not disbursing millions of dollars in critical payments to thousands of American Indians throughout the country....

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Who will win this year's Native American music GRAMMY? Unless you're a voting member of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, you won't have any ability to voice your opinion directly....

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The GRAMMY music awards heralded the new year with a second round of nominees in the Native music category on Friday, choosing six recordings to compete for Best "Best Native American Music Album." Heavy on pow-wow music and two record labels, the Native hopefuls were among the scores announced at a star-studded press conference in Beverly Hills, California....

The Southern Ute Tribe of Colorado is one of a number of investors in Enron Corp trying to move the failed company's bankruptcy case to Texas....

To experts in the gaming industry and those who live with it, the question of casinos is not whether they will impact a community but by how much....

"Dream catchers, coincidentally, were the subject of an article in the Dec....

A new book documents the life of Esther Ross, a leader of the Stillaquamish Tribe of Washington....

"Once a slim, winding water snake ate a community and became a fat and bloated boa they named Lake Sakakawea....

The Peabody Essex Museum in Peabody, Massachusetts, is hosting an exhibit of 71 Edward S....

The Bureau of Indian Affairs has found that the current leadership of the Miwuk Tribe of the Buena Vista Rancheria of California is not legitimate....

The Peabody Museum at Harvard University in Massachusetts recently repatriated nearly 200 sets of human remains to Iroquois Confederacy tribes in New York....

Traditional feasts were held at 15 New Mexico Pueblos on Sunday to bring in a new year of leaders for the tribes....

A Republican lawmaker testified on Friday that a map he proposed for the New Mexico House would create six majority Indian districts....

President Bush on Saturday said he would help white farmers in the Klamath Basin of Oregon get the water they have been denied over the past year....

The price of a first-class stamp would raise from 34 cents to 37 cents as part of an agreement made between the Postal Service and the mailing industry....

Native Women for Justice is hosting a public meeting on January 19 to discuss a proposed water compact between the state of Oklahoma and two tribes....

A notice was published in the Federal Register on Friday regarding the affirmed recognition of the Cowlitz Tribe of Washington....

Several development projects on the Shoalwater Reservation in Washington are near completion this year, bringing hope to a tribe long neglected by the federal government....

Henrietta Mann, a Montana State University professor, and her daughter, Montoya Whiteman, were recently invited to the site of the World Trade Center disaster in New York City by the Red Cross Spiritual Care Center....

Tribes in New Mexico and the energy industry are welcoming a national energy legislation bill proposed by Sen....

The Quechan Nation is preparing to fight a gold mine on sacred land in California although the Bush administration claims its reversal of a legal opinion that prevented the development doesn't necessarily mean the project will be approved....

The Supreme Court without comment today declined to review an appeal by the Wyandotte Nation of Oklahoma over a proposed casino in Kansas....

The Department of Interior is denying it hasn't taken all steps possible to send out millions of dollars in payments to beneficiaries to the Individual Indian Money (IIM) trust....

If the Nebraska Legislature doesn't act to allow casino gaming on the state's reservation, the Santee Sioux Tribe will try to get the issue on the 2002 ballot, vice-chair Thelma Thomas says....

The Department of Interior has agreed to take into trust 49 acres of land for the United Auburn Indian Community of California....

"The guy plays pro football for the Washington Redskins in the 1950s, scores a rookie touchdown on a 99-yard kickoff return, and rides through the twilight 40 years later in a little Toyota pickup with a plate that says "1 REDSKN." There he is in Manhattan Beach now, 71 years old, and it's been seven years since wife Wanda sprung the vanity plate on him as a Christmas present....
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