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In what is likely to be outgoing Assistant Secretary Neal McCaleb's last foray into the controversial subject, the Bush administration on Thursday denied federal status to one of the oldest historically recognized tribes in the United States....

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A trust fund organization whose employees have expressed strong dissatisfaction with their own management will be shuffled yet again under the Bush administration's proposed reorganization....

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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 federal mediator for the Oneida Nation land claim says talks appear to be productive, The Syracuse Post-Standard reports....

The Bush administration late today filed a brief challenging a federal judge's decision to hold Secretary of Interior Gale Norton and Indian affairs aide Neal McCaleb in contempt of court....

The high-stakes battle over high-stakes gaming in the state of Arizona was as high-stakes as people said it would be....

Unlike other towns in the state, Mark Brown, the chairman of the Mohegan Tribe of Connecticut, says the local community has always embraced his people....

A Republican lawmaker in Iowa is asking tribes who operate casinos in the state to share their revenues....

Voters of the Colorado River Indian Tribes of Arizona are angry about the tribe's expensive and unsuccessful campaign to authorize continued gaming, The Arizona Republic reports....

Joy Culbreath, the education director of the Choctaw Nation, was given a special awarded by the Oklahoma state regents on Thursday....

A council member of a California tribe and two others have been indicted in federal court for allegedly embezzling tribal funds....

Jerry Haney has been officially recognized as the principal chief of the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma....

The Daily Oklahoman in an editorial today calls for tribes to share more of their tobacco revenues with the state....

The chairman of the Tohono O'odham Nation of Arizona is under more pressure to resign after being arrested in a prostitution sex sting....

The Muwekma Ohlone Tribe of California plans to sue the federal government to regain its status as a recognized tribe....

The fourth day of a trial into alleged theft of funds from the Seminole Tribe of Florida focused on one of the men accused of embezzling $2.7 million, according to news accounts....

The entire police force serving the Chippewa-Cree Tribe of Montana has been suspended, the Associated Press reports....

At least seven tribes have dropped out of the California Nations Indian Gaming Association, according to press accounts, while 31 others have not paid their dues to the powerful lobbying organization....

A Navajo Nation enterprise has signed a development deal for a 470-mile power line....

The Cabinet chessgame is over....

Assistant Secretary Neal McCaleb is being questioned under oath today about his destruction of e-mails against court orders....

The Bush administration has sided with a company who wants to develop a kitty litter plant next to the Reno Sparks Indian Colony of Nevada....

Fewer than 1 percent of students at Florida State University claim Native descent but the American Indian Student Union keeps busy with a number of community events....

Kevin Gover, former assistant secretary for Indian affairs at the Department of Interior, is leaving his Washington, D.C., law firm to teach at Arizona State University next year, The Arizona Republic reports....

Politicians and resident of Connecticut were extremely pleased about the Bush administration's rejection of federal status for the Schaghticoke Tribal Nation....

Secretary of Interior Gale Norton isn't planning on leaving the Bush administration to pursue a federal judgeship, a department spokesperson said....

The proposed Bureau of Indian Affairs reorganization is unacceptable, says National Congress of American Indians President Tex Hall in a National Native News report....

The Samish Nation of Washington was told it didn't exist....

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The Bush administration on Wednesday announced a "major" restructuring of Indian affairs within the Department of Interior, the second time in two years the federal government has tried to address long-standing mismanagement problems....

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Under the guise of improving trust management services to individual and tribal beneficiaries, the Department of Interior plans to reorganize the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) and the Office of Special Trustee (OST), two agencies whose bitter rivalries have hindered real reform to the tune of $700 million....

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We know it's still early, but has anyone noticed that the "new" Bureau of Indian Affairs looks like the "old" Bureau of Indian Affairs circa 1980s? Yes, Virginia, Neal McCaleb has gone retro! Beneficiaries can expect to hear Culture Club's "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me" every time they ring the Trust Beneficiary Call Center to get accurate information about their trust fund accounts....

The Shoshone-Bannock Nation of Idaho and the FBI are investigating the death of a newborn baby found on the Fort Hall Reservation....

An Indian reporter for The New York Times has Los Angelenos in a tizzy for his upfront stories about some of the city's oddities....

Wisconsin Governor-elect Jim Doyle on Wednesday said tribes should share more of their gaming profits with the state....

The Mohegan Tribe of Connecticut reported that its casino made $1 billion in net revenues in the fiscal year that ended in September 2002....

Outgoing Arizona Governor Jane Hull (R) on Wednesday signed gaming compacts with 10 of the state's 17 tribes....

The San Manuel Band of Mission Indians of California is getting into the Internet service industry....

The Ho-Chunk Nation and the state of Wisconsin have agreed to land swap that will establish a state recreation area....

A group of Connecticut lawmakers made a last-ditch attempt to thwart a decision on the federal recognition of the Schaghticoke Tribal Nation....

Navajo Nation council delegates are expected to vote on a budget for the inauguration of president-elect Joe Shirley and other council members....

A wildlife officer for the Shoshone-Bannock Nation of Idaho is challenging the tribe's decision to fire him for helping federal officials go after a tribal member....

Outgoing Oklahoma Governor Frank Keating (R) wants to terminate existing tobacco compacts with the state's tribes in order to come up with a new deal that will "level the playing field," the Associated Press reports....

Native American students at a high school in New York shared their culture with their classmates at a Native American Heritage Month celebration....

It was Christmas on Tuesday for the youth of Arctic Village, a Gwich'in community right outside the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska....

The Sioux Falls Argus Leader in an editorial today says more study is needed to find out why American Indians are worse off than immigrants and refugees in a South Dakota city....

Three people are up for the president's job at Fond du Lac Tribal & Community College on the Fond du Lac Reservation in Minnesota....

The pending move of the Innu First Nation at Davis Inlet in Labrador, Canada, has been delayed for at least two months....

Some Tohono O'odham Nation officials have asked Chairman Edward Manuel to resign because of his recent arrest for allegedly soliciting an undercover police officer for prostitution, The Arizona Daily Star reports....

With a Supreme Court decision pending, three Alaska Native corporations are formally withdrawing their billion dollar investment in a series of wireless licenses....

A South Dakota man is circulating a petition calling on the United States, through Congress, to apologize for the massacres of American Indians....

The Schaghticoke Tribal Nation of Connecticut was denied federal recognition today by the Bush administration....

The third day of a trial into alleged theft of funds from the Seminole Tribe of Florida was even more colorful and exciting than the first two, according to news accounts....

A federal appeals court, for the second time, rejected a voter discrimination suit brought by American Indians in Montana....

The Department of Interior is undergoing an organizational change as part of a greater strategy to address more than a century of mismanagement of Indian trust funds and assets....

Bureau of Indian Affairs head Neal McCaleb says his credibility has been "undermined" by a federal judge's decision holding him in contempt of court....

A funeral was held on Wednesday for an Indian man from the Leech Lake Reservation of Minnesota who was beaten to death by two teens....

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A group of Indian law experts expressed surprise on Tuesday at the reception the Supreme Court gave to two tribal trust mismanagement cases....

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Keeping cases out of the Supreme Court has been a primary goal of tribal leaders and Indian advocates....

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The Supreme Court was packed on Monday for two hours of oral arguments for what will be the most anticipated Indian law decisions in years....

Testimony on the second day of a fraud and theft trial involving the Seminole Tribe of Florida weakened the government's case against three associates of former chief Jim Billie, according to news accounts....

Outgoing Arizona Governor Jane Hull (R) is expected to sign gaming agreements with 17 tribes after another attempt by the racetrack industry to stop her failed....

"A non-white woman who murdered two beautiful non-white children was sentenced to only eight years in prison....

The Sioux Falls Argus Leader in an editorial today welcomes the correction of a plaque at the Colorado State Capitol that properly refers to the November 29, 1864, massacre at Sand Creek....

The Norwich Bulletin in an editorial today says it is "just" to recognize the Schaghticoke Tribal Nation of Connecticut but that "another casino is simply a bad idea." The paper says two tribal casinos are enough....

The Schaghticoke Tribal Nation of Connecticut has waited at least 30 years to hear from the federal government about its federal status....

The Shoshone-Bannock Nation of Idaho is considering changes to its enrollment policy....

The state of Minnesota and eight Ojibwe bands have reached a deal affecting tribal fishing rights....

John Herrington isn't the first American Indian to go into space....

An Oklahoma city wants to determine whether the Absentee Shawnee Tribe can legally operate a casino on trust land within city limits....

An Oneida Nation official is disputing a local city's attempt to prosecute him in city court....

An Indian Health Service study being published in a medical journal today confirms an extremely high infant mortality rate among tribes in the northern Plains, with most of the deaths attributed to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)....

After more than 30 years on the job, Leonard C....

The Heart of America Indian Center was founded in Kansas City, Kansas, by a Choctaw man and his wife who wanted to keep Indian culture alive....

Bureau of Indian Affairs jails are notoriously overcrowded, underfunded and understaffed....

The Massachusetts gambling commission gambling commission held another public hearing on Tuesday to discuss the legalization of casino gaming in the state....

The Miami Nation of Oklahoma is suing the Department of Interior over a legal opinion that said the tribe has no right to a parcel of land in Kansas....

A grocery store in Winnipeg, Manitoba, has apologized to a Native woman after refusing to sell her hairspray....

A man born in India sees nothing wrong with using American Indians as mascots....

The Navajo Nation Council will hold a special session Friday to consider a proposed pipeline to alleviate Peabody Coal's use of water in northeastern Arizona....

Frank LaMere, a member of the Winnebago Tribe who is active in Democrat politics, is organizing a protest of the sale of liquor to Native Americans in Nebraska....

Is Secretary of Interior Gale Norton looking for a new job? The former Colorado attorney general is eyeing a federal judgeship, Al Kamen of The Washington Post reports today....

Tribal sources reported today that Assistant Secretary Neal McCaleb plans to announce a reorganization of Indian affairs at the Department of Interior....

The Crow Tribe of Montana is undergoing major changes in law enforcement....

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The Supreme Court on Monday confronted one of the largest tribal trust mismanagement cases in history but seemed hard pressed to find any wrongdoing on behalf of government officials who suppressed and concealed vital information from the Navajo Nation....

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Members of the Supreme Court on Monday pressed the federal government to detail its trust responsibilities to the White Mountain Apache Tribe of Arizona, whose economy was recently devastated by the worst fire in state history....

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The Supreme Court on Monday took its first Indian law case of the term, agreeing to consider whether state jurisdiction extends to tribal lands for crimes that allegedly occur off-reservation....

Natives in the Inuit territory of Nunavut are seeking an exemption from a Canadian gun control law....

The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to review a law school's affirmative action policy....

A Connecticut city council voted Monday to negotiate a casino deal with a state-recognized tribe awaiting a final decision on its federal status....

The state of Wisconsin and 11 tribes are planning to negotiate new gaming compact with incoming Governor Jim Doyle....

An Oklahoma city council voted 3-2 to deny basic utility services to a casino proposed by the Absentee Shawnee Tribe....

The Narragansett Tribe of Rhode Island has formed a gaming partnership with Harrah's Entertainment, a former rival....

The Bureau of Indian Affairs has been asked to independently investigate the circumstances of a fatal car crash on the Blackfeet Reservation of Montana....

A nuclear power company in Minnesota whose plant is located next to the Prairie Island Mdewakanton Dakota Tribe is questioning limits on on-site waste storage....

A federal appeals court on Monday blocked the Bush administration's attempt to renew drilling off the coast of California....

A museum in Alaska is heading up an effort to keep the Alutiiq language from falling out of use....

The Canadian government has proposed legislation to allow First Nations to collect property taxes....

The Seneca-Cayuga Tribe of Oklahoma is seeking intevenor status in the Seneca land claim....

A federal appeals court on Monday said a power line to a sacred mountain in Arizona cannot be stopped....

Navajo community members and leaders held a march and rally in Shiprock, New Mexico, to observe World AIDS Day....

Two teens from the Cass Lake Ojibwe Reservation in Minnesota are being charged with brutally beating a blind man to death....

Beset with alcoholism, drug problems, sexual abuse, low-achieving youth and lack of basic infrastructure, the Innu First Nation at Davis Inlet, Labrador, is preparing to move to an entirely new location....

Research being published next year in the journal Human Evolution documents 13,000-year-old bones found in Mexico....

The trial of three former workers for the Seminole Tribe of Florida opened in federal court on Monday....

The Navajo Nation was "bilked of millions of dollars by a crafty politician who was doing favors for his friends in the coal industry," The Arizona Daily Star says in an editorial today....

The Supreme Court on Monday heard oral arguments in two breach of trust cases....

An attorney for the Native American Rights Fund said the Supreme Court's decisions on tribal trust cases probably won't affect the Cobell Indian trust fund lawsuit....

The Supreme Court on Monday rejected an attempt by state of Montana to tax an Indian-owned business....

In May, the Puyallup Tribe of Washington began distributing $2,000 in casino profits to its 2,800 members....

A federal appeals court is considering two appeals for the Cayuga Nation of New York land claim....

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Two tribes go to the Supreme Court today to try and make the federal government honor its trust obligations....

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Department of Interior casualties mount as trust fund battle continues, tribes lose challenge to funding for self-determination contracts, and FBI reports rise in hate crimes against Indians....

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In carrying out its treaty obligations with the Indian tribes, the Government is something more than a mere contracting party....

The Snoqualmie Tribe of Washington is opening a new family health clinic today....

Phillip Jackson was "a no-good Indian" who was convicted and imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit....

A plaque at the Colorado State Capital now properly refers to the November 29, 1864, slaughter of 150 Indians at Sand Creek as a "massacre." The plaque previously said the atrocity in which Army soldiers killed Cheyenne and Arapaho elders and children was a "battle." Former state Sen....

The Department of Interior has recognized the governing body of the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma, tribal officials said....

"The thing that makes gambling dicey is the twin populations of the tribes and nontribal owners and operators....

Two Connecticut newspapers are urging action on different fronts to prevent the spread of Indian gaming in the state....

Republican lawmakers in Connecticut are holding a series of hearings as part of their plan to halt the development of new tribal casinos....

The Northern Cheyenne Tribe of Montana is hosting a legal forum at the tribe's college this week....

Assistant Secretary Neal McCaleb is expected to issue a preliminary decision this week on the federal recognition of the Schaghticoke Tribal Nation of Connecticut....

An intramural team whose name draws attention to the use of Indian as mascots has raised $100,000 in scholarship funds for Native students....

The Navajo Nation will be the only tribe with an official government representative at an upcoming United Nations human rights conference, The Farmington Daily-Times reports....

Graduation rates among American Indian high school students in Minneapolis, Minnesota, have doubled, The Minneapolis Star Tribune reports....

New funding from Congress will keep the diabetes program at the Reno-Sparks Indian Colony in Nevada alive....

Alaska wildlife officials are considering a ban on hunting moose on the lower Kuskokwim River but a decision is being delayed to consider the impact on Yup'ik subsistence rights....

"The little games we play -- toning down words, replacing images of Indian heads on helmets with arrowheads, pretending that the team's name means 'courage' and has nothing to do with American Indians, as owner Dan Snyder does -- suggests a gradual, if still reluctant, realization that there is something wrong with using "Redskins" as a moniker....

Members of the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe of South Dakota are considering a class action suit to stop their tribe from using a trust fund to pay off $31 million in debt....

The Bureau of Indian Affairs has instituted a new driving policy in response to a fatal accident involving a former employee....

The Supreme Court today hears oral arguments in two cases testing the limits of the federal government's trustee relationship with tribes....

"Usually at this time of year I like to seize the opportunity to remind folks of life's abundant blessings that we should all be giving thanks for - 401(k) losses notwithstanding. Of all the things I'm thankful for, I'm especially thankful, of late, that my plane didn't fall out of the sky in a flaming, downward-spiraling ball of smoke and terror whilst on my way to Nashville....

Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell (R-Colorado) gets mentioned in a new book by Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Bill McAllister of The Denver Post reports in his Beltway Notebook column....
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