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Over the objections of government lawyers, a federal judge on Thursday ordered Secretary of Interior Gale Norton to testify in her own contempt trial....

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A full reconciliation of the billions of dollars in assets held by tribes is "impossible," a General Accounting Office official told a Senate panel yesterday....

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The House Resources Committee hearing on trust fund management and reform was certainly an affair to remember....

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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 following is a list of upcoming events related to Indian trust....

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A Congressional audit has found serious information technology weaknesses at another government agency in charge of Indian trust funds, raising new doubts about the same types of security problems that have crippled the Department of Interior....

Secretary of Treasury Paul O'Neill got choked up and was moved to tears as he and Sen....

A ceremony was held Wednesday on the Prairie Island Dakota Reservation in Minnesota to celebrate 100 years of life for Hazel Wells....

The Grand Council of the Cree First Nation in Quebec finalized a $3.4 billion deal with the the province on Thursday....

A bill to allow video gaming machines at non-tribal casinos were killed by a legislative committee in Washington state on Thursday....

A Montana skinhead convicted of harassing Native Americans and other minorities has again landed into trouble....

The Department of Interior has increased the speed and pressure at which oil and gas drilling on public lands is approved....

After a court ordered mediation process, the Agriculture Department and environmental groups on Thursday reached an agreement about the sale of timber in the Bitterroot National Forest....

Atanarjuat, the Fast Runner, a film by Inuit director, Zacharias Kunuk, took home several honors Thursday night at the 22nd annual Genie Awards in Canada....

The Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation of Connecticut will be allowed to continue using a temporary parking lot for its museum....

A federal judge on Thursday ruled that the city of Detroit improperly prevented a Michigan tribe from bidding for an off-reservation casino....

The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday held a second hearing in the nomination of Charles W....

The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals today denied the Tigua Tribe of Texas the ability to keep its casino open while it pursues appeals....

Kake Tribal Corporation, an Alaska Native corporation, is emerging from bankruptcy....

Why did Howard Bad Hand write his first book? Because someone asked him to....

Under fire from tribal and government officials, a spokesperson for Arthur Andersen is defending the work it did for the Department of Interior to reconcile billions of dollars in tribal funds during the mid-1990s....

The Winter 2002 Olympics in Salt Lake City will kick off tonight, with representatives from a number of tribes sharing the stage for 10 minutes during the opening ceremony....

n an editorial, The Minneapolis Star Tribune says an urban casino would help two Minnesota tribes who haven't seen the same benefits from gaming as other tribes in the state....

The US Army Corps of Engineers on Thursday to every federally recognized tribe, seeking input on a proposed bypass highway that could run through sacred wetlands near Haskell Indian Nations University in Kansas....

President Bush on Thursday signed into a law a measure returning 67,710 acres of mineral rights to Acoma Pueblo of New Mexico....

The Bureau of Indian Affairs helped an employee with eight drunk driving citations or arrests get a special drivers license, The Albuquerque Journal reports....

A House panel held a hearing on Thursday to focus on the federal recognition process at the Bureau of Indian Affairs....

Secretary of Interior Gale Norton has named an oil and gas expert to direct the Minerals Management Service....

A California state lawmaker is denying claims made in a report that he helped organize tribal opposition to a Los Angeles mayoral candidate last year....

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Secretary of Interior Gale Norton went before skeptical members of Congressional on Wednesday to defend her controversial plan to strip the Bureau of Indian Affairs of its core responsibilities, once again angering tribal leaders in the process....

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Secretary of Interior Gale Norton had little progress to report to lawmakers on Wednesday, saying her department still remained crippled two months into a court-ordered Internet shutdown....

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In case you weren't there, or didn't listen to the five-hour ordeal on the Internet, Secretary of Interior Gale Norton gave Indian Country the big middle finger yesterday at her testimony before the House Resources Committee....

The Jena Band of Choctaw Indians of Louisiana are planning to build a large casino and 500-room hotel complex, according to a tribal spokesperson....

The Bush administration on Wednesday asked a federal appeals court to reinstate a state law which prohibits partial birth abortions....

A bipartisan but mostly Democratic group of House members told President Bush in a letter on Wednesday that his executive order banning forced unionism deprived government employees of their rights. In one of his first actions in office, Bush banned forced unionism for federal contractors....

The Washington Redskins debuted new uniforms on Wednesday that replace the Indian head logo with a spear and feathers....

The leaders of three Connecticut towns are again asking Congress to help find the original copy of a map outlining the boundaries of the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation....

In an editorial today, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer criticizes the Bush administration for moving forward a plan to store highly radioactive waste in Nevada without completing critical studies....

The Bush administration should live up to the government's promises to clean up the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington, The Seattle Times writes in an editorial today....

An internal government report concludes that state and federal scientists did not intend to undermine a lynx study when they submitted fake samples to a testing lab....

Nevada Governor Kelly Guinn (R) will get his chance today to tell President Bush in person that that putting a national nuclear waste dump in his state "stinks." Guinn plans to tell Bush he will vote the Yucca Mountain project. Congress would have to then resolve the dispute....

The Narragansett Tribe of Rhode Island and Boyd Gaming are again partnering up to open a casino in West Warwick, The Pawtucket Times reports....

The fiscal year 2003 budget for the state of Connecticut doubles the money five communities get from a casino impact fund....

A New Mexico state lawmaker has introduced a bill to give 33 percent of slot machine revenue from Santa Clara Pueblo's casino to the city of Española....

An investigation into the campaign of Los Angeles Mayor James K....

An inter-tribal and environmental dispute over a well-known California landmark has cost one Native man his life-long prayer ceremony....

After being uninvited by his own tribe for a ceremony honoring the men who helped win World War II, David W....

A Bureau of Indian Affairs criminal investigator whose vehicle dragged to death a deaf, 21-year-old Pueblo woman has pleaded innocent to a traffic citation....

The National Academy of Sciences' interim report on the Klamath Basin is available online....

Secretary of Interior Gale Norton testified today for nearly two hours before a packed hearing of the House Resources Committee....

The Department of Interior has "no credibility" in Indian Country or anywhere else, The Sioux Falls Argus Leader writes in an editorial today....

A federal judge on Wednesday ordered the state of Wyoming to negotiate a gaming compact with the Northern Arapaho Tribe within 60 days....

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Tribal leaders upset with Secretary of Interior Gale Norton's proposed reorganization of Indian trust are launching the second prong of their assault on the controversial overhaul today, testifying before what is expected to be a contentious oversight hearing....

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A federal judge on Tuesday scolded Secretary of Interior Gale Norton for violating her trust obligations to Indian beneficiaries by seeking to release confidential financial data to Congress and the American public....

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When pressed by Narragansett council member Randy Noka (a serious up-and-comer in case you don't know) last week about the Bush administration's reversal of so many pro-tribal policies, Assistant Secretary Neal McCaleb said that hasn't always been the case....

The Washington Redskins will be sporting new outfits this year but team officials were quick to point out the removal of the Indian head has no bearing on the controversy over the name....

The Bush administration is proposing to spend $98 million on aid to Colombia, part of which will be used to train soldiers to guard an oil pipeline operated by an American company whose efforts have been opposed by indigenous activists....

The Senate Judiciary Committee is holding a second confirmation hearing on Charles W....

The Bush administration is preparing a new global warming proposal nearly a year after President Bush scrapped the Kyoto protocol and said an alternative plan needed to be developed....

The Tribal Alliance of Sovereign Indian Nations of California has elected Patrick Murphy Jr....

A senior Environmental Protection Agency official told President Bush's energy task force last year that the report it was preparing was based on faulty information, according to a document made public on Tuesday....

A former Department of Energy official who was in charge of the Yucca Mountain project has questioned whether the site is suitable for storing the nation's nuclear waste....

The Alaska Forum on the Environment held a panel focusing on Bering Sea issues in Anchorage on Tuesday....

The Jena Band of Choctaw Indians of Louisiana have asked the Bureau of Indian Affairs to take land into trust for gaming purposes....

A federal judge has sentenced a bootlegger from the Navajo Nation to one year in prison for violating his parole, the U.S....

The Department of Interior has agreed to a limited recognition of the government of the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma....

Pojoaque Pueblo in New Mexico plans to ask a federal appeals court to reconsider its ruling that allows the tribe to sued for not sharing casino revenues with the state....

The off-again, on-again search for an elusive map of the Mashantucket Pequot Reservation in Connecticut is on again....

The general council of the Yakama Nation of Washington has voted to stop trying to compete for federal licenses to operate two dams....

An anti-sovereignty and anti-treaty rights group has filed a lawsuit seeking to lift protections for fish considered sacred to tribes in the Klamath Basin....

Who knew that just filing a motion could violate one's trust responsibility to Indian Country? Secretary of Interior Gale Norton found out yesterday when a federal judge chastised her for asking permission to release confidential trust data to Congress....

The Navajo Nation has begun distributing $537,000 in grants to tribal members who haven't received their royalty checks from the Department of Interior since November....

The latest issue of Federal Computer Week includes a major spread on the Department of Interior's computer shutdown....

The James Bay Cree First Nation is moving towards finalizing an historic resource management and economic development agreement with the government of Quebec....

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The Department of Interior plans to spend roughly $65 million over the next three years to improve its information technology systems, Secretary Gale Norton said on Monday....

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A federal judge today criticized Secretary of Interior Gale Norton for making an "improper" request to circumvent a court order and disclose private trust data to Congress and the American public....

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The court investigator in the Individual Indian Money (IIM) class action today released his second status report on the information technology shutdown at the Department of Interior....

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The Bureau of Indian Affairs could be stripped of its historic role in the education of Native American children under a major initiative of President Bush's new budget....

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Reflecting what officials called an historic commitment to trust management and reform, Secretary of Interior Gale Norton released her department's fiscal year 2003 budget on Monday....

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The ranking member of the panel about to hold a hearing over the Department of Interior's trust management criticized Secretary Gale Norton on Monday for seeking to make public a report containing confidential Indian trust data....

President Bush unveiled his $2.13 trillion budget on Monday, admitting he will run a deficit but pushing tax cuts and major increases in defense and military spending anyway....

Secretary of Interior Gale Norton said on Monday that decisions affecting the use of water in the Klamath Basin will take into account a critical scientific review being released this week....

Legendary boxer Smokin' Joe Frazier filed a lawsuit last week against the casino owned by the Oneida Nation of New York....

Arizona State Senate President Randall Gnant on Monday introduced a bill that would put the fate of expanded gaming in the hands of voters....

The accounting firm whose report on the assets of four American Indian beneficiaries is the subject of a legal and political dispute announced on Monday it was making changes to its business practices....

Five young adults have been charged with kidnapping and second- and third-degree assault of a 16-year-old teen in Anchorage, Alaska....

A federal judge refused to seat President Bush's pick to the U.S....

Angered at his refusal to appear before their panel, lawmakers on the Senate Commerce Committee are planning to vote to subpoena former Enron chairman Ken Lay....

President Bush's $2.13 trillion fiscal year 2003 budget includes a "management" initiative designed to rate the performance of federal departments and agencies....

The Olympic torch entered Utah on Monday and received a traditional welcome from a Ute tribal member Frank Arrowchis....

The Miccosukee Tribe of Florida is pleased with last week's federal appeals court ruling on the Everglades, a tribal spokesperson told The South Florida Sun-Sentinel....

The New Mexico Commission on Indian Affairs has fired executive director Terry Aguilar....

The state of Louisiana has approved a gaming compact with the Jena Band of Choctaw Indians, the Associated Press reports today....

"In our region, some in the media say getting into reservation communities is difficult, and the problem is exacerbated by an invisible perimeter called the reservation border....

The Department of Agriculture has approved a national expansion of an Indian loan and credit program that got its start at a tribal college in Montana....

President Bush's fiscal year 2003 budget requests $527 million to develop the Yucca Mountain national nuclear waste dump in Nevada....

The Department of Energy's is proposing to cut funds to cleanup the the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington, one of the biggest projects facing the department....

The Department of Interior's fiscal year 2003 budget again includes a line item anticipating receipt of $1.2 billion in lease funds from drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge....

The National Museum of American Indian survived President Bush's budget ax on Monday, seeing preservation of $10 million in construction funds....

The Department of Interior's proposed fiscal year 2003 budget includes $1.5 million to acquire land for the Tent Rocks National Monument near Cochiti Pueblo in New Mexico, a request Sen....

President Bush's proposal to outsource tribal schools to private entities sets them up for failure, a National Congress of American Indians official told Jodi Rave of The Lincoln Journal Star....

Pope John Paul II is ready to make Juan Diego, an Aztec Indian man renowned for his vision of the Virgin Mary, a saint but some aren't ready to accept someone whose story they call a fantasy....

The US Attorney's office in Nebraska has appealed a federal judge's decision that favored the Santee Sioux Tribe's tiny casino operation....

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The court official appointed to watch over the Department of Interior unleashed some of his boldest and far-reaching criticism on Friday, questioning whether true trust reform can occur under existing conditions....

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Consultation continues on Indian trust plan tribes oppose, contempt trial over individual trust resumes, White House gets notice of lawsuit, and President Bush delivers State of the Union....

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Long before his infamous "imploding" memo became the subject of media coverage, Congressional testimony and a court monitor, the first project manager of a $40 million trust accounting system warned that the government was spreading "misinformation" about the now-failing effort....

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An electronic copy of the final EDS report on trust reform is available for downloading....

The Navajo Nation's drug court is not shutting down, the tribe says....

The 154th anniversary of the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was marked this past Saturday in Santa Fe, New Mexico....

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The Department of Interior's computer shutdown enters its third month this week....

The treaty rights of Minnesota's Ojibwe tribes have always been a source of contention in the state....

Still reeling from its past involvement with bankrupt company Enron, auditing firm Arthur Andersen on Sunday announced changes in the way it does business....

A federal appeals court has cleared the way for New Mexico Attorney General Patricia Madrid to continue suing two tribes who refuse to share casino revenues with the state....

"If something more rollicking than the "Alaska's Flag" hymn is desired, consider John Pingayak's "Kaaka-gguq Cauyalriitqaa" ("Listen to the Drumming")....

"My non-Indian friend stared at me in wide-eyed disbelief....

Tribal leaders and lawmakers in Montana are expressing disappointment over the results of an economic study of the state's seven reservations and the Little Shell Chippewa Tribe....

The Northwest Reno in Reno, Nevada, held its first Native American Storytelling event on Saturday, drawing a crowd to listen to Native storytellers....

In response to a federal judge's ruling, the Bush administration will be reviewing the endangered and threatened status of two dozen species of salmon and steelhead....

An interim report by the National Academy of Sciences has found that federal wildlife officials based their decision to shut off water to non-Indian farmers in the Klamath Basin on faulty science....

Frank Arrowchis, a member of the White River band of the Northern Ute Indian Tribe, is welcoming the Olympic torch into the state of Utah with an Indian ceremony....

Bureau of Indian Affairs officials never knew one of their employees had eight drunk driving citations or arrests, let alone his four convictions, according to The Albuquerque Journal....

President Bush rolls out his $2.13 trillion fiscal year 2003 budget today, delivering it to Congress wrapped in the American flag....

A federal appeals court on Friday sided with the Miccosukee Tribe of Florida, ruling that state officials have to comply with federal law before pumping polluted water into the Everglades....

"The owner of the Washington football club is working his legal team and press flacks overtime, scouting Indian country for anyone who is Indian or "part-Indian" and likes the team's name....

The media was out in force this past Friday at a Washington, D.C.-area hotel for the seventh Indian trust meeting....

The latest Indian Country Today poll finds an overwhelming majority of Native Americans have little confidence in Secretary of Interior Gale Norton's handling of the trust fund....

Citing an adverse environment, the ex-chairman of failed energy company Enron has canceled his appearance before a Senate committee today....

Jim Shore, the general counsel for the Seminole Tribe of Florida, has been in hiding since he was released from the hospital after being shot in what authorities have called a mob-style hit....
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