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President Bush is committed to maintaining a government-to-government relationship with tribal nations although his administration still hasn't developed an Indian policy, a senior White House official said this week....

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The Department of Justice is being asked to bring criminal charges against former and current Bureau of Indian Affairs officials in response to an internal report which documents problems with their handling of federal recognition petitions....

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Tribes, individual Indians and other interested parties can continue to submit comments on the proposed reorganization of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, a spokesperson said on Thursday....

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The Department of Interior has signed another trust reform contract with a computer consulting company, drawing criticism from tribal leaders who feel they are being shut out....

The Environmental Protection Agency's senior regulator has quit his post in protest of the Bush administration's effort to "streamline" policies affecting aging power plants....

Vice President Dick Cheney on Wednesday "officially" launched the government's new version of its Internet portal, FirstGov....

A Connecticut state legislative committee on Monday will hold a bill that aims to ban future tribal casinos....

"The Lenape believed that gambling among their ancestors played a significant role in their everyday lives, in the success and failure of their crops, in their ultimate survival....

A hearing was held on Thursday to discuss whether publicly traded corporations should own card clubs in California....

Federal judge overseeing lawsuits that seek to force the White House into releasing information about Vice President Dick Cheney's energy task force are getting impatient....

A water commission in northwestern New Mexico has signed a contract with the Department of Interior that has some people wondering where the beef is....

Federal and Montana state officials are using a new test to detect brucellosis in bison that live in, and often wander out of, Yellowstone National Park....

A company owned by the Northern Arapaho Tribe of Wyoming has qualified as a contractor for the federal government....

The Department of the Interior has decided to take 8.78 acres of land into trust for the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation of Connecticut, reports The Norwich Bulletin....

In case the message wasn't clear the first 500 times, three Connecticut towns on Thursday held a press conference to say they oppose the federal recognition of two Pequot tribes....

A federal judge in Montana on Thursday sentenced six members of a skinhead group for their roles in attacks on minorities....

A drug and alcohol treatment center owned and operated by several Pacific Northwest tribes has been chosen as a finalist for a prestigious government award....

The state of Alaska has closed the McQueen School in the village of Kivalina, citing the safety of staff members....

Classes have been canceled today at Española Valley High school due to riots that broke about among students on Thursday....

The Alaska Native Science and Engineering Society's state science fair was held recently, bringing together students and Alaska Native elders....

Is it Friday already? That means it's time for the weekly list of the movers and shakers in Indian Country and beyond....

Second-tier wrestling is coming to Haskell Indian Nations University! The World League Wrestling will hold a wrestling about at the school on Saturday....

The Omaha Tribe of Nebraska is planning to build a dirt racetrack on trust land it owns in Iowa....

Three environmental groups are asking the Department of Interior to turn over documents on drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge....

In an editorial opinion, Paul Krugman of The New York Times accuses Secretary of Interior Gale Norton of being deceptive over the impact of drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge....

Retiring Bureau of Indian Affairs official Sharon Blackwell was afraid someone would get hurt in the final weeks of the Clinton administration, according to an internal investigation made public this week....

The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports today of spirited discussion at the National Indian Gaming Association (NIGA) conference in Washington, D.C., on Thursday....

Built on the edge of the Grand Canyon, Hopi House was opened in 1905 to give tourists a glimpse into tribal culture....

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A proposed reorganization of the Indian Health Service has drawn growing concern from tribal leaders, who asked this week to be included in reforming a system they agree has numerous problems....

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Assistant Secretary Neal McCaleb sometimes gets into trouble with the words he uses....

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A senior Bureau of Indian Affairs official who has played a central role in the dispute over fixing the Indian trust fund is leaving her post, Assistant Secretary Neal McCaleb announced on Wednesday. McCaleb told tribal leaders in Washington, D.C., that Deputy Commissioner for Indian Affairs Sharon Blackwell will retire this summer....

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In what could be a repeat of the Oneida land settlement that has fallen apart, the state of New York has approached one of the parties in the St. Regis Mohawk land claim....

A large crowd turned out to a meeting on Wednesday to discuss a proposed landfill opponents fear would damage Indian burial grounds....

Congressional candidate Jeff Benedict on Wednesday denied criticism that he is a one issue candidate despite all his media coverage focusing on his push to terminate the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation of Connecticut....

The state of Connecticut has again asked its Congressional delegation for help in locating the map used to settle the land claims of the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation....

Three Arizona tribes competing for the right to host a new Arizona Cardinals football stadium might have to waive their sovereign immunity as part of the deal....

Following a nationwide trend, two Maine tribes are pushing a casino as a way of meeting the state's budget woes....

Like the state's governor, Louisiana Attorney General Richard Ieyoub seemed to have found an easy entry into Secretary of Interior Gale Norton's date book....

A federal judge has ordered the Department of Energy to release over 7,500 pages of documents used in the formation of the President's national energy policy....

The treasurer of the Red Lake Ojibwe Tribe of Minnesota has resigned from his post but tribal members have decided to try and recall him anyway....

"Have you read the governor's newly proposed subsistence amendment for our Alaska Constitution (House Joint Resolution 41)? If not, did you know that most Alaskans are subsistence "have-nots"? We "have-not" any subsistence tradition....

Two Oregon school districts are holding a pow-wow on Saturday to brings students and their families together....

Bruce Meyers resigned last week as coordinator for Montana's Office of Indian Affairs, citing his diabetes and health and family issues....

The newly promoted captain of the Shiprock Department of Criminal Investigation said he wants to have New Mexico police officers to have police powers on his part of the Navajo Nation....

The Department of Interior said on Wednesday it anticipates non-Indian farmers in the Klamath Basin will receive the water they were denied last year....

They say cats have nine lives and if so, a proposed kitty litter mine in Nevada has eight more chances to go before it is out for the count....

The Oneida Nation of New York hasn't made a decision on a grant program that has given $3.1 million to local schools....

"The brouhaha at West Seattle High School can be summed up with a phrase educators love: a teaching moment. The lesson centers on issues of race, cultural sensitivity and our painful history with Native Americans....

Citizen Potawatomi Nation of Oklahoma Chairman John A....

Tribal leaders in Oklahoma are holding a public forum next week to update Indian beneficiaries about the Cobell litigation and efforts to reorganize the Bureau of Indian Affairs....

Citing unresolved issues, the director of the Institute of American Indian Arts Museum in Santa Fe, New Mexico, left her post on Wednesday....

An Associated Press analysis of the Indian Health Service has found numerous shortcomings that have long been known in Indian Country....

"Bless The People — Harmonized Peyote Songs" by Verdell Primeaux and Johnny Mike won the Grammy on Wednesday night for the Best Native American Recording....

President Bush on Wednesday expressed concern tribes would be able to exploit a "loophole" in the campaign finance reform bill currently stalled in the Senate, the Associated Press reports....

Always controversial, Citizen Potawatomi Nation Chairman John A. "Rocky" Barrett Jr....

Kaktovik Inupiat Corp., a village corporation representing the Inupiat Eskimo community that supports drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, wants funding to an anti-development group stopped....

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The deputy commissioner of Bureau of Indian Affairs leaving her post, Assistant Secretary Neal McCaleb announced this morning....

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Tribal leaders and their advocates have drafted an ambitious and far-reaching legislative proposal aimed at restoring full criminal and civil jurisdiction over Indian lands in response to Supreme Court decisions that have slowly chipped away at treaties and sovereignty....

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A senior Department of Interior official on Tuesday acknowledged Secretary Gale Norton's proposal to create a new Indian trust agency lacks the details tribal leaders say are necessary for meaningful consultation....

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In The Hoop has heard that a certain government agency is looking for a new official....

Haskell Indian Nations University and adjacent wetlands where graves of former students have been located could be placed on the National Register of Historic Places....

Republican foes of the campaign finance reform bill on Tuesday said they wouldn't try to block its immediate passage in the Senate....

The Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on Tuesday to consider the nomination of Brooks Smith to the federal bench....

The Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee held a hearing on Tuesday to consider the nomination of a conservative African-American lawyer for a civil rights post....

The General Accounting Office last week filed a lawsuit seeking to force the White House to disclose information about the energy task force Vice President Dick Cheney chaired....

The Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation of Connecticut is once again the biggest taxpayer in the town of North Stonington....

The Penobscot Nation and the Passamaquoddy Tribe of Maine are discussing opening casino in the state....

Tribes seem to have trouble getting a meeting with Secretary of Interior Gale Norton but Louisiana Gov....

The Hualapai Tribe of Arizona is opposing plans to build two helicopter pads next to its reservation....

Three Connecticut towns haven't finished discussing the federal recognition bids of two Pequot tribes and will hold a press conference tomorrow to release more documents and information....

In an editorial today, The Sioux Falls Argus Leader says it is looking forward to a study addressing racial inequities in the South Dakota justice system....

"To prove that there's nothing new under the sun, the story of White Clay, Neb., whiskey peddlers selling alcoholic beverages to the Indians from South Dakota's Pine Ridge Reservation is just a continuation of a story that began back in the 1800s....

The Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation withdrew its land-into-trust application to try and smooth over relations with three Connecticut towns, a tribal council member said....

About 200 people piled into a large Senate hearing room on Tuesday to hear the latest drama in the ongoing trust fund debacle....

Representative Nick Rahall (D-W.Va.) discussed energy legislation and other Indian issues before the National Congress of American Indians in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday....

With 178 stores in Alaska and Canada, including the Inuit province of Nunavut, the North West Company has long held a presence in Native communities....

Members of Alaska's Congressional delegation want the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge opened to oil and gas development but they want it all, not just parts....

A large group of Navajo tribal members has issued a set of demands to the Navajo Nation council but wants to get many delegates out of office anyway....

Private landowners being sued by the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin have hired the law firm of White & Case to defend themselves, an expense being picked up by the state of New York....

The Grammy awards ceremony will air tonight at on your local CBS affiliate....

A county commission in Nevada narrowly voted to refuse a permit to a company that wants to operate a 24-hour, 7-day-a-week kitty litter mine and plant....

Supreme Court Justice Steven Breyer gave a well-received speech at the National Congress of American Indians in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday....

Funding for an Indian museum in Oklahoma is being held up in the Senate....

A member of the Crow Tribe of Montana has been picked to the All-USA College Academic Team by USA Today....

The Quapaw Tribe of Oklahoma has filed a lawsuit against the Bureau of Indian Affairs, seeking an accounting of tribal trust assets....

Cree leaders in Canada recently signed a $3.4 billion economic development and self-determination agreement in exchange for dropping land claims of similar value....

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Gaming Subcommittee formed in Kansas The AP reports that a five-member subcommittee has been formed in the House of the Kansas Legislature to review and revise two gaming bills....

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Three months after she first announced a proposal to create a new Indian trust agency, Secretary of Interior Gale Norton is slowly withdrawing her controversial overhaul, department officials said on Monday....

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Senator Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii) on Monday challenged Indian Country to question President Bush's new federal budget, identifying several proposals he said threaten the trust responsibility and critical Indian programs....

The National Indian Gaming Commission has ordered the Ponca Tribe of Oklahoma to told its casino by Friday....

Negotiations on a gaming compact between the state of Wyoming and the Northern Arapaho Tribe are continuing even though the state is challenging the talks....

A measure to require law enforcement to collect data on racial profiling was one of 10 major bills that didn't pass the South Dakota Legislature, The Sioux Falls Argus Leader reports today....

The Department of Interior is considering ways to limit drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge as a means of convincing Senate members to allow development....

The leaders of more than 30 towns in Connecticut have asked Gov....

Three tribes in the metro-Phoenix area are vying for a chance to host a new Arizona Cardinals football stadium....

In what just might be famous last words, Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal and the leaders of three towns are claiming victory in a long-running dispute over trust lands....

The nomination of Charles Pickering Sr....

Navajo students at Kirtland Central High School in Kirtland, New Mexico, are getting guidance from Navajo professionals....

The Nebraska Legislature's General Affairs Committee on Monday held a hearing on a bill that creates a buffer zone to limit sales of liquor near the Pine Ridge Reservation....

The Middletown Times Herald-Record wonders when the Bureau of Indian Affairs will approve any one of seven land-into-trust applications for casinos in New York, given that only two officials -- one a temp -- review the petitions....

Mille Lacs County in Minnesota filed a lawsuit last week claiming the Mille Lacs Ojibwe Reservation has been disestablished....

A jury in Montana on Monday night convicted a man of two counts of kidnap and assault in a case involving three Native boys....

Cher, who claims Indian ancestry, is upset that Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Christie Whitman has covered up murals in a government office depicting Indian men raping and pillaging white women....

Winona LaDuke spoke at the University of Alaska at Fairbanks on Monday....

The Atomic Safety and Licensing Board has ordered officials of the Skull Valley Goshute Tribe to release details about funds they have received from the nuclear industry....

Senator Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.) will personally give Navajo Code Talker David Tsosie his Congressional silver medal, The Farmington Daily-Times reports today....

Despite Secretary of Interior Gale Norton's slow withdrawal of her proposal to create a new Indian trust agency, some tribal leaders remain skeptical....

The Department of Interior was led to believe its computer systems were secure by third-party consultants, a spokesperson has told The New York Times....

The Department of Interior's Office of Hearings and Appeals has temporarily halted drilling outside the Arches National Park in Utah....

A bill that would lead the way to expanded gaming on reservation in Nebraska moved ahead in the Legislature on Monday....

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The Jena Band of Choctaws received major play in the Louisiana press this past week, and the weekend was not an exception....

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Secretary of Interior Gale Norton's contempt trial concludes, computer shutdown affects Indian beneficiaries, Supreme Court looks at Indian law cases, and Oneida land deal unravels....

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A new agency aimed at handling the $3.1 billion in assets belonging to hundreds of tribes and thousands of American Indians is not absolutely necessary, Secretary of Interior Gale Norton's legal team has admitted....

Four Native clothing and jewelry designers recently opened up a unique fashion boutique in Santa Fe, New Mexico....

About 130,000 old tires have been removed from the golf course owned by the Citizen Potawatomi Nation of Oklahoma....

A memorial service was held on Saturday for Lloyd Kiva New, the influential artist, educator and founder of the Institute of American Indian Arts....

Secretary of Veterans Affairs Anthony Principi is extending benefits to military personnel who developed radiation-related cancers after working on Amchitka Island in Alaska....

The Fairbanks Native Association has a special program to help elders combat addictions....

You're either for more gambling or for less....

"Suddenly it was decided that we were going camping....

A Nebraska county judge on Friday held a hearing for a Native activist arrested June 1999 for protesting liquor sales near the Pine Ridge Reservation....

Connecticut Governor John Rowland (R) still opposes using state funds to help fight the federal recognition of Indian tribes but Attorney General Richard Blumenthal is finding allies in the Legislature....

The New York State Historic Preservation Office has finalized an archaeological study that clears the way for a water project....

Senator Harry Reid (D-Nev.), a top ranking member of the Senate, is filing a legal brief in federal court to urge a federal judge to make public the records of Vice President Dick Cheney's energy task force....

Montana Governor Judy Martz (R) has been stepping on a few toes during her reign, environmentalists included....

The rhetoric is sometimes heated and the history often troublesome but according to an Inupiat Eskimo lobbying for opening the Arctic National Wildlife refuge to oil and gas drilling, the relationship with the Gwich'in Nation is friendly....

The Army Corps of Engineers has formally apologized to Cochiti Pueblo of New Mexico for destroying sacred sites and harming the tribe's culture....

The Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation of Kansas is objecting to proposals that would expand gaming in the state....

The Oneida Nation of New York and the village of Canastota have reached an agreement over public services....

The Ute Tribe of Utah has started a company that puts tribal members in a rural part of the state to work on high-tech projects....

In an editorial today, The Farmington Daily-Times questions how the Navajo Nation could have spent $2.2 million for an Olympic pavilion but not approve $2.4 million to start work to repair a crumbling student dormitory....

The boys basketball team from Browning High School on the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana has won the state A championship tournament for the second year in a row....

The Department of Interior on Friday said it was sending our $1.8 million in oil and gas royalty checks to thousands of American Indians throughout the country....

A federal judge will decide in the coming weeks whether to sanction Secretary of Interior Gale Norton and Assistant Secretary Neal McCaleb for their handling of the Individual Indian Money (IIM) trust fund....

The Department of Interior is seeking contractors to help conduct an historical accounting of the funds for 300,000 American Indians....

In an editorial posted in the online edition of Indian Country Today, Secretary of Interior Gale Norton has removed comments she made regarding her belief that the Bureau of Indian Trust Assets Management (BITAM) is the "superior" solution to trust reform....

"For the several years now, I have been researching material for a book about the history of the Sahnish people....

Larry Curley is running for President of the Navajo Nation and says he is ready to kick the tribe into high-gear....
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