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After years of denying its obligations to American Indians, the Department of Interior has announced the completion of an "historical accounting" for some members of an Arizona tribe....

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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....

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A federal court is investigating whether Secretary of Interior Gale Norton approved a report that contained misleading information about efforts to fix the broken Indian trust fund....

A two-ton, 22-foot statue of an Indian was finally put on top of the Kansas Statehouse on Thursday....

The Republican opponent of Senator Max Baucus (D-Montana) had dropped out of the race over an ad that makes him look a corrupt gay man....

The Ponca Tribe of Nebraska is waiting for the Bureau of Indian Affairs to take land into trust....

The Santee Tribe of Nebraska has installed machines at its tiny casino that may be illegal in the state....

Members of the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma are being asked to sign a petition to oust chief Jerry Haney....

The Department of Housing and Urban Development has awarded a $600,000 grant to the Northern Arapaho Tribe of Wyoming....

"I am responding to the article in the Argus Leader about the National Indian Gaming Organization doing a fund-raising event for Stephanie Herseth in attempts to "retire" Gov....

Mashantucket Pequot chairman Kenneth M....

Arizona's tribes and the racetrack industry have raised $32.1million in an effort to convince voters to keep Indian gaming alive....

A federal judge won't allow the United Band of Keetoowahs to intervene in lawsuit over the Arkansas River bed....

The Blackfeet Tribe of Montana is undertaking a study for a new medical center to serve the region....

Jeff Strickler of The Minneapolis Star Tribune gives "Skins," the new movie from Chris Eyre, three stars out of four, calling it a "real" movie about "real" people who just happen to be Indian....

The Yurok Tribe of California declared a state of emergency in response to the recent deaths of as many as 30,000 salmon on the Klamath River....

A member of the Puyallup Tribe of Washington was arrested on Thursday for what one official called the largest fraud investigated by state auditors....

The Senate Indian Affairs Committee on Thursday held a hearing to address legislation to settle a Michigan tribe's land claim....

We're here! We're Italian! We're marching in Denver, Colorado, tomorrow to remember Christopher Columbus....

The Department of Interior announced on Thursday it has mailed what is purported to be an accounting of funds for 560 members of Arizona's White Mountain Apache Tribe....

Senator and candidate for Alaska governor Frank Murkowski was president of a bank that breached its trust to an Alaska Native village corporation....

Both chambers of Congress voted on a resolution to grant President Bush the authority to use force against Iraq....

The Kickapoo Tribe of Kansas on Thursday criticized federal legislation that would pave the way for another casino in the state....

Three white teens in Canada have been arrested for a paint-ball attack on the Blood First Nation Reserve in Alberta....

Senior Department of Interior managers are resisting reform of their agency's law enforcement duties, according to Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa)....

The Department of Interior on Thursday said it was undertaking a full-scale review of all land exchanges in 12 Western states after a damaging report that called for a criminal investigation into appraisal practices....

San Carlos Apache elders spoke to a University of Minnesota regents committee to express their opposition to a telescope project on sacred land....

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South Dakota Governor Bill Janklow (R) sued the Bush administration on Tuesday to dispute a tribal road tax and an Indian hiring program....

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A Native American "holy man" who is not a member of a federally recognized tribe can keep two bears at his Pennsylvania home for religious reasons, a federal judge recently ruled....

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After 2,800 miles and lots of hard work, the first ever Sovereignty Run ended this week in Washington, D.C....

Navajo Nation presidential candidate Joe Shirley and running mate Frank Dayish are promising a pro-business, industry friendly tribal government....

Columbus Day in Colorado was started because Italians needed a self-esteem boost, recent history shows....

A federal appeals court on Tuesday ordered the Census Bureau to release adjusted data for every jurisdiction in the country....

The Queen of England was greeted with a protest during her visit to Winnipeg, Manitoba....

The Heiltsuk First Nation of British Columbia is suing the provincial government over two fish farms located on traditional tribal land....

After coming into office opposing the expansion of Indian gaming, Wisconsin Governor Scott McCallum (R) is now willing to compromise amid sagging ratings and a booming budget bust....

Two former policemen in Connecticut have made a number of allegations against casino officials who work for the Mashantucket Tribal Nation....

A new ad by the Colorado River Indian Tribes of Arizona attacks a gaming initiative by another group of tribes....

A group of 11 towns in Connecticut voted on Wednesday to support the state's appeal of the federal recognition of the Eastern Pequot Tribe....

A Republican inquiry into the gifts the Clinton family received during President Bill Clinton's term of office shows previously unreported items....

Workers in Kansas hope to have a two-ton statue of an Indian atop the statehouse today....

The Navajo Nation is holding two more hearings to address the use of a 3-percent sales tax....

The Department of Defense on Wednesday released more details about secret biological weapons tests performed during the Cold War....

The University of Oklahoma School of Dance is honoring five Native ballerinas....

Fleeing from persecution in Mexico in the late 1800s, the Pascua Yaqui Tribe of Arizona has come a long way from its impoverished roots....

"The Turtle Mountain Tribal Court ruled Oct....

A Michigan minister has incorporated a nonprofit organization under the name "Redskins" in an attempt to stop its use by others....

Longtime Mashantucket Pequot chairman Kenneth M....

Federal legislation to settle tribal water rights in Arizona will allow construction of a $125 million pumping station and pipeline to be used by Peabody Coal....

A federal judge on Wednesday heard oral arguments in dispute over land the Narragansett Tribe of Rhode Island wants to use for elder housing....

Representative Dennis Moore (D-Kansas) introduced a bill to settle an Oklahoma tribe's land claim for a casino in Kansas....

Gerald Slater, founder of the Salish-Kootenai Tribal College in Montana, died on Monday after battling cancer....

The FBI misused its police powers in connection with a secret counterterrorism court that was headed by U.S....

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Attorneys for American Indian Movement activist Leonard Peltier were back in federal court on Tuesday to seek a reduction in sentence for the ailing prisoner....

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A federal appeals court on Tuesday ordered the state of Alaska to pay legal fees as part of its war against the subsistence rights of Alaska Natives....

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An overwhelming number of adult Americans are considered overweight and their numbers are increasing every year, according to new studies....

Oglala Lakota President John Yellowbird Steele called for the state of Nebraska to enact a five-mile zone where the sale of liquor is prohibited....

A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld the right of the federal government to hold secret deportation hearings....

Former FBI director Louis Freeh made his first public appearance in months to defend his record on terrorism against charges he was resistant to change and did not share information with other federal entities....

The House Resources Committee on Tuesday approved a bill to curb environmental and judicial review of logging projects on federal forest land....

The Suquamish Tribe of Washington is constructing a larger casino to replace its current one....

A federal employees' group on Tuesday released a report charging a federal forest manager with neglecting to protect Native artifacts and sites in California....

What does it take to get a two-ton Indian statue on top of the statehouse in Kansas? Workers are trying to figure that out....

The 79th Shiprock Northern Navajo Fair drew nearly 30,000 people to Shiprock, New Mexico, last weekend but police say a new parade route failed to alleviate traffic woes....

San Felipe Pueblo in New Mexico has completed a three-way land swap with the state and federal governments....

The Red Earth Native American Cultural Festival is moving from downtown Oklahoma City to a more "rustic environment" at a local park, an organizer said....

Federal agencies and the state of Alaska are investigating reports of fake Alaska Native art, thanks to a recent public relations campaign by the Federal Trade Commission....

An opponent of several Connecticut tribes calls Assistant Secretary Neal McCaleb's recognition reform plan a bit like "rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic." Connecticut attorney general Richard Blumenthal opposes the two Pequot tribes, the Golden Hill Paugussett Tribe and the Schaghticoke Tribal Nation....

A Lumbee woman who won the North Carolina beauty title only to have it stripped from her is in arbitration with state pageant officials....

The Supreme Court on Tuesday heard oral arguments in a dispute involving Alaska Native corporations and their billion-dollar investment in wireless licenses....

Opponents of Columbus Day shouldn't use their upcoming protest to "cross the line between legitimate protest and breaking the law," The Denver Post says in an editorial today....

Supporters of imprisoned American Indian Movement activist Leonard Peltier rallied outside a federal court on Tuesday....

The Department of Defense released chemical warfare and live biological agents in a traditional Athabaskan area in interior Alaska, according to government documents being released to Congress....

Mohegan tribal chairman Mark Brown is upset at a recent episode of the HBO mafia hit "The Sopranos" because he believes a tribal character was modeled after him....

Elouise Cobell, lead plaintiff in the Individual Indian Money (IIM) lawsuit, is described as "an activist of the people" for taking on the federal government's Indian trust debacle....

The Bureau of Indian Affairs is leading an investigation into a dump of methamphetamine chemicals on Quapaw tribal land in northeastern Oklahoma....

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Tribal leaders and their supporters gathered on the steps of the United States Supreme Court on Monday for a rousing rally in support of self-determination....

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The Supreme Court on Monday dealt the final blow to a Texas tribe's attempt to keep its financially successful casino alive....

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The first day of the October 2002 term of the U.S....

New York Governor George Pataki (R) is moving forward on casino compact talks with the St....

President Bush made a speech to a group of citizens on Monday night to lay out the basis for a potential attack on Iraq and Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein....

Former FBI director Louis Freeh will testify before Congress today on terrorism and the September 11 terrorist attacks....

A casino manager for the Tonto Apache Tribe of Arizona is ending a four-month suspension for violating a state-tribal gaming compact....

Key lawmakers in Washington don't think an attempt to expand slot machines beyond Indian casinos will be successful....

Two former Connecticut state police officers who were transferred after an alleged break-in on the Mashantucket Pequot Reservation are appealing a tribal court ruling....

Problems forced workers in Kansas to take down a 5,000-pound Indian sculpture that just been placed atop the Statehouse on Monday....

The Supreme Court on Monday announced it will not review a Republican attempt to keep retiring Senator Robert Torricelli (D) on the ballot in New Jersey....

The Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear a challenge to a law that prevents the sale of eagle feathers and parts....

The Yurok Tribe and the Hoopa Valley Tribe of California are meeting next week to consider a suit against the federal government for the deaths of 20,000 salmon in the Klamath River....

Author and filmmaker Sherman Alexie doesn't feel he has a "special mission toward Indians" except to portray them as human beings, he says in an interview for Sojourners....

A University of North Dakota student group has set up an exhibit to draw attention to the use of Indian as mascots, logos and symbols....

"On Thursday, the regents will consider whether to enter into a contract allowing University astronomers to be given access to the Large Binocular Telescope being constructed at the Mount Graham International Observatory in Arizona....

San Carlos Apache elders from Arizona are taking part in a protest this week against a telescope observatory built on a sacred mountain....

The Karuk Tribe of California has started a project to remove deteriorating logging roads....

After being voted out of office Saturday, Anita "Grace" Bunner returned to work on Monday as head of the Thloptlocco Tribal Town....

Three Alaska Native corporations will argue today to preserve their billion-dollar investment in wireless technology....

Jerry Haney's new reign over the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma was short-lived....

The Senate last week renewed an Indian housing act that gives tribes greater control over funding and resources....

The Supreme Court has accepted just two Indian law cases since its last term but they could be among the most important ever....

"The young woman who died was a rancher....

The Canadian government is threatening to walk away from land claim negotiations with First Nations because they are taking to long to resolve....

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With just a few days left in the Congressional session, New Mexico's senators and the Pueblo of Sandia announced a final agreement on a bill to settle the tribe's outstanding land claim....

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Indian trust fund problems continue, Assistant Secretary Neal McCaleb releases recognition reform plan, tribes lament loss of 20,000 fish in Klamath River and runners prepare for Supreme Court rally....

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American Indians and Alaska Natives in New Mexico are more likely to die in car accidents than any other racial or ethnic group in the state, according to a new study....

A hogan manufacturer on the Navajo Reservation is one business that will benefit from the tragic Rodeo-Chediski Fire in Arizona....

The 79th Shiprock Northern Navajo Fair ended on Saturday, drawing thousands of visitors to experience Navajo culture, arts and dances....

Tribes in Oklahoma and Washington are beating the competition when it comes to gaming....

Individual Indian and tribal beneficiaries deserve an "honest accounting" of their trust funds, The Lincoln Journal Star says in an editorial....

The Bureau of Land Management on Friday auctioned 232 head of cattle seized from two Western Shoshone sisters who claim aboriginal title to land in Nevada....

Clifford Bird in Ground, former chairman of the Crow Tribe of Montana, pleaded guilty on Friday to one count of bribery for using tribal money to buy cars for family and friends....

An Alaska Native corporation plans is redeveloping its old logging camp into a tourist attraction....

The New London Day is going after Senator Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii), chairman of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee, for remarks he made against a moratorium on federal recognition....

"Ev'ry year 'round this time I has to wax poetic, although my writing skills they be somewhat pathetic....

Two competing groups will march on Columbus Day, this Saturday, in Denver, Colorado....

Ten groups in Michigan are petitioning for federal recognition, according to The Lansing State Journal....

Senator Barbara Boxer (D-California) wants the Department of Interior's inspector general to investigate Secretary Gale Norton's reversal on a mine development in California....

After years of never having a quorum, the Utah Native American Remains Review Committee is finally meeting to decide how to handle and repatriate remains to the state's tribes....

With his run for governor of New Mexico in the skids, Russell Means says he was called back home to the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota for one reason: to change the Oglala Lakota Tribe....

After their attempt to flee to Canada was cut short, five Nez Perce bands who refused to be confined to a reservation in Idaho were nearly wiped out by disease and mistreatment....

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is "off base" by suing a non-Indian diner of discriminating against Navajo employees, The Farmington Daily-Times writes in an editorial today....

The first ever Sovereignty Run ends today in Washington, D.C., with a tribal leader's rally at the steps of the Supreme Court....

Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell (R-Colorado) took in $20,500 at a fundraiser arranged by the Mohegan Tribe of Connecticut, Bill McAllister of The Denver Post reports....

There's just not enough water to satisfy tribes, farmers, environmentalists and fishermen in the Klamath River Basin on the California-Oregon border, a federal official says....
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