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US District Judge Royce Lamberth is set to decide in the coming weeks whether to hold Secretary of Interior Gale Norton and Assistant Secretary Neal McCaleb in contempt for their handling of the Individual Indian Money (IIM) trust....

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The Bureau of Indian Affairs confirmed on Thursday that National Congress of American Indians President Tex Hall and other members of the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation haven't received their grazing checks even though the computer system that processes the funds has been up and running for nearly a month....

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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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The federal judge presiding over the trust fund class action heard closing arguments in Secretary of Interior Gale Norton's contempt trial on Thursday, expressing frustration that the long-running debacle may never end....

Nebraska state lawmakers on Thursday continued to debate whether to allow expanding gaming....

A building located on a burial ground of the Mohegan Tribe of Connecticut faces an uncertain future more than two years after an agreement was signed to address development....

Gamblers looking for a place to drop their change have already started finding alternatives to the now-closed casino owned by the Tigua Tribe of Texas....

Leech Lake Ojibwe Chairman Eli Hunt gave his annual State of the Band address on Wednesday....

"Due in large part to his well-researched and provocative book ....

In an editorial today, The Sioux Falls Argus Leader says a recent controversy over law enforcement on the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation is "nothing to get worked up about." The paper says the dispute was based on a "misunderstanding." The tribe was trying to clarify how it works with state and not federal entities, the editorial points out....

In an editorial today, The Lincoln Journal Star says tribes in Nebraska have the right to decide whether to allow gaming on their reservations....

The Mississippi Band of Choctaws have become the first tribe in the country to own a new car dealership....

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The Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation of Connecticut will be paying $11,000 a month for the services of a lobbyist who helped negotiate a gaming compact with the state....

Santo Domingo Pueblo in New Mexico is accusing the local school board of moving to create districts that dilute the tribe's voting power....

Attorney General John Ashcroft has named a U.S....

The Minnesota State Colleges and Universities board unanimously voted on Thursday to pass a resolution condemning the use of ethnic or offensive logos, names, mascots and nicknames....

A kitty litter mine the Hungry Valley Indian Colony characterizes as its biggest threat is inching towards final approval in Nevada....

Researchers for the Klamath Tribes of Oregon released this week a response to a recent National Academy of Sciences report which called into measures taken to uphold the tribes' treaty rights....

Although several Native vendors and artisans have complained they are losing money at the Ethnic Village at the Winter 2002 Olympics in Salt Lake City, one community is rather happy....

In an editorial published in today's edition of The Minneapolis Star Tribune, nine tribal leaders say they oppose a plan to create an urban casino and share the proceeds with two impoverished tribes....

Making good on an earlier threat, the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin filed 20 lawsuits on land in the tribe's ancestral home of New York....

The Farmington Daily-Times slams the Navajo Nation today for failing to give Navajo Code Talker David Tsosie his Congressional silver medal....

It took nearly a month but it's finally over....

A resolution making its way through the Navajo Nation tribal council would approve $105,000 to help with homeless tribal members in Farmington, New Mexico....

Navajo Nation President Kelsey Begaye and Navajo Housing Authority director Chester Carl recently met with the White House's liaison to Indian Country to discuss housing issues....

A clinical psychologist who works on the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming testified in a sexual abuse trial of a Montana man....

Haskell Indian Nations University is hosting a conference on Indian gaming in April and has asked President Bush to attend....

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The federal judge overseeing the trust fund said today he was "duped" by the federal government, criticizing officials and attorneys for playing "word games" with the assets of 300,000 American Indians....

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It took 28 days but the testimony in Secretary of Interior Gale Norton's contempt trial has finally concluded....

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Secretary of Interior Gale Norton made a one-hour address to members and guests of the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., yesterday, speaking on a number of hot issues facing her department....

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The federal judge overseeing the trust fund exploded in court on Wednesday, threatening to hold Secretary of Interior Gale Norton in contempt for failing to make millions of dollars in long-delayed payments to Indian landowners....

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The leader of the nation's largest tribal organization testified on Wednesday of the dramatic effect the Department of Interior's computer shutdown has had on Indian Country, drawing the attention of a federal judge who doubted whether he can force the government to live up to its responsibilities....

The Arizona Tourism and Sports Authority has narrowed down candidates to host a new $350 million Arizona Cardinals football stadium, three of which are being offered by tribes....

A preservation group on Tuesday asked a federal judge to issue a preliminary injunction to prevent the coalbed methane leasing and drilling in Montana....

A legislative proposal to create an urban casino in the Twin Cities of Minnesota has drawn divergent views from tribal leaders....

A Connecticut state lawmaker who offered a bill to terminate Indian ownership rights based on the work of a discredited researcher has come up with another tribally related proposal....

A Democrat seeking his party's nomination for a Congressional seat in Connecticut wants the federal government to pay for research undertaken by groups seeking federal recognition....

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2002 "Hooray for state Rep....

"In your front-page story last week about Skip Hayward, you quoted him calling my grandson an “idiot” and a liar....

In an editorial today, The Sioux Falls Argus Leader praises the Pipestone National Monument in Minnesota for starting a consultation process with tribes to improve its visitors center....

Betty Crocker got a makeover and now it's time for the Indian "maiden," the long-time symbol of the Land O'Lakes dairy cooperative, to be revamped....

Tribes in Arizona have agreed to new gaming compacts that would legalize new casinos, expand the size of casinos and require them to share about $83 million a year....

The Department of Interior can't make oil and gas royalty payments to tribes and thousands of individual Indians without approval from Congress, reports National Native News....

The Army Corps of Engineers on Wednesday announced it was modifying four dams in the Pacific Northwest to try and help endangered and threatened runs of salmon....

Just how many Mohegan tribes are there? Officially, only one, as a federal judge's recent ruling shows....

The new lawmaking body of the Crow Tribe of Montana has been meeting for the past six weeks, discussing a wide array of topics as representatives get used to their new jobs....

Police in Shiprock, New Mexico, would finally have the power to issue citations to Indian motorists on the Navajo Nation under a new proposal being offered....

Back in the old days, or the late 1800s to be exact, a frequent tactic of the government in seeking to make deals with Indian nations was to negotiate with a friendly or less "hostile" leader....

The Colombian army has begun bombing territory held by a rebel group today after talks with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) were called off by President Andres Pastrana on Wednesday night....

Secretary of Interior Gale Norton never talked with executives from the failed energy company Enron last year and isn't aware if her staff ever did the same, The Denver Post reports today....

Secretary of Interior Gale Norton spoke to the National Press Club on Wednesday about something she called "new environmentalism." The idea apparently involves trying to make corporations and citizens do good things for the environment without making them do anything....

The Mohegan Tribe of Connecticut held a job fair on Wednesday for 500 positions at its casino....

Nebraska lawmakers on Wednesday again debated expanding gaming in the state with amendments offered to proposals on the table....

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In another reversal of the Clinton administration's policies on the trust fund, Secretary of Interior Gale Norton is dropping her department's attempts to limit an historical accounting for 300,000 American Indian beneficiaries....

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After a long and difficult career of not being used to provide an historical accounting for 300,000 American Indian beneficiaries, the Department of Interior has decided to "retire" thousands of trust fund records....

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For the second year in a row, President Bush has proposed to cut or limit environmental grants to tribes and states, stakeholders the administration has highlighted as key to keeping the nation's air and water safe....

Nebraska lawmakers on Tuesday began debating several proposals that could open up Class III gaming to tribes....

In an unsurprising move, a federal appeals court on Tuesday ordered the Shakopee Mdewakanton Dakota Community in Minnesota to pay federal excise and wagering taxes on pull-tabs....

The Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation of Connecticut can lay claim to having the slot machines which pay out the most in the state....

An unidentified Santo Domingo Pueblo woman was carjacked at gunpoint in Santa Fe, New Mexico, on Tuesday....

Navajo Nation Attorney General Levon Henry is the subject of sexual harassment by a former employee, the Associated Press reports....

The state of Montana and the Bureau of Land Management, an agency of the Department of Interior, have released a draft environmental analysis affecting coalbed methane development in the state....

A federal judge has ordered the Bureau of Indian Affairs to issue a proposed finding on the federal recognition of the Schaghticoke Tribal Nation of Connecticut by December of this year....

The Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation is hosting a conference on Algonquian languages starting this Friday....

Assistant Secretary Neal McCaleb told an Oklahoma newspaper on Tuesday that he still doesn't know when oil and gas royalty checks will be mailed to Indian beneficiaries....

The first Native scheduled to go into space visited the Crow Reservation on Tuesday to meet with students....

Six tribes from the Pacific Northwest and Canada met on the Lummi Reservation in Washington on Tuesday to discuss the future of one of their most important resources....

The Bonneville Power Administration has delayed plans to start a commercial wind farm on Blackfeet Reservation in Montana, saying it needs more time to study the project....

The Montana State Land Board on Tuesday voted to approve an agreement with the Northern Cheyenne Tribe over the transfer of coal tracts where tribal ancestors are buried....

Joining a chorus of critics, the Oneida First Nation of Ontario, Canada, said a proposal to settle the tribe's land claim is "insulting," reports to The Syracuse Post-Standard....

In two separate actions, the Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to hear two Indian-related cases....

The Mohegan Tribe of Connecticut is adding more than 4,500 parking spaces to its casino....

The Navajo Nation's cultural pavilion at the Winter 2002 Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah, is getting favorable reviews from tribal members and visitors....

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As tribes head to Congress to seek ways to counteract a wave of recent rulings deemed destructive to tribal sovereignty, the Supreme Court is considering a new set of cases affecting key areas of Indian law....

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Secretary of Interior Gale Norton testifies in contempt trial, government promises landowners royalty checks, tribes take stage in Olympics, and Census 2000 looks at Indian Country....

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The Department of Interior can only "guess" whether the account balances of 300,000 American Indians are correct, Assistant Secretary Neal McCaleb said in an interview published on Friday....

The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Reservation in Montana are working with a power company to come up with a drought plan to control flows of water over Kerr Dam....

Voters of the Seneca Nation will not get a chance to approve a gaming compact with the state of New York because negotiations are still underway....

A group of Alaska Natives protested President Bush's visit to Anchorage on Saturday because it forced the delay of an event honoring a Tlingit activist....

The Pipestone National Monument in Minnesota is working with at least 27 tribes to update its visitors center, which contains exhibits and placements some feel are outdated and offensive....

Six Acoma Pueblo men are working full-time to restore the New Mexico tribe's nearly 400-year-old church....

An attorney representing a New Mexico arts dealer who sold eagle feathers and sacred artifacts to an undercover FBI agent has asked a federal judge to dismiss his case....

Two residents of the Omaha Reservation in Nebraska have pleaded guilty for their involvement in the death of a 21-year-old tribal member....

The Oneida Nation of Wisconsin is protesting an agreement to settle a long standing claim over 250,000 acres of land in New York, and plans on filing new lawsuits against individual landowners....

"I don't know why women can't fly with the Titans, but if I could soar at speeds near 60 mph some 20 feet above the ground for the length of a football field, I would do it....

Utah's tribes are criticizing an economic development study commissioned by the State Legislature, saying it was developed without input from tribal leaders....

"For years I've supported my family by conducting seminars on intercultural and interracial communication....

"I come to you today fresh from my own gold medal (flour) performance in the Men’s Freestyle Fry Bread Toss, in which I tossed down a record-breaking FIVE Indian tacos in less than FOUR minutes! Thank you, thank you – it’s my personal best – I’m so happy....

Debate begins today on legislative proposals to expand gaming in Nebraska....

The Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe of South Dakota is looking to assume authority over all crimes on the reservation but doesn't have enough money to do so, according to a tribal official....

Parents of students at Navajo Preparatory in Farmington, New Mexico, are worried the school could lose construction funds from the Bureau of Indian Affairs....

With the help of a computer program, the Nooksack Tribe of Washington is bringing back one of its nearly disappeared languages....

Don Loudner, a member of the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe of South Dakota and veteran of the Korean War, is one of 19 members on the national Advisory Committee on Minority Veterans....

New York Governor George Pataki (R) won't agree to finalize any one of three casinos in the Catskills if there are pending land claims by a tribe....

Confirmed as Navajo Code Talker by the U.S....

The National Park Service web sites are back online but it may time time for your email to dom.nessi@nps.gov to get through....

Former National Park Service Chief Information Officer: "From my past federal budget battles, I know that in a period of tight national budgets, it's unlikely that the Interior political leadership will talk about or address this massive core structural IT funding problem that has persisted over several decades....

Indianz.Com was taken over yesterday by a rogue group of hackers who once again wreaked havoc in Indian Country with another issue of Tomorrow....

The Supreme Court today declined to consider whether the Miami Nation of Indiana is a tribe for federal purposes....

Over the objections of Nevada politicians and officials who called him a liar, President Bush on Friday approved storing up to 77,000 tons of highly radioactive nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain in Nevada....

The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of Montana are using a $5,000 donation from home financing company Fannie Mae to start up an inter-tribal mortgage-backing program....
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