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In a classic David versus Goliath clash with a Native twist, the Wall Street Journal, an international publishing giant whose parent company reports revenues in excess of $2 billion, has taken on Indian Country Today, a tribally-tied newspaper with reservation roots....

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The following is a statement from David Hollis, director of communications for the Oneida Indian Nation of New York, in response to "Indian Casinos Today." April 5, 2002....

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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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Citing the status of trust reform and the ongoing class action suit aimed at correcting years of financial mismanagement, a federal judge has asked a court official to continue investigating the Department of Interior for at least another year....

The Rhode Island House on Thursday delayed a vote on a casino study the Narragansett Tribe has characterized as a waste of time....

The Bush administration has refused a $250 million request from the federal judiciary to beef up security at courts nationwide....

Army Secretary and former Enron executive Thomas White received free rides on the failed company's jet while his confirmation was pending in the Senate, The Washington Post reports today....

Senator Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.), the chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, on Thursday rejected an offer from Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge to participate in briefings rather than formal testimony....

A casino in study in Maine is near final approval in the Legislature....

A Mescalero Apache legend is dying....

Louisiana Governor Mike Foster (R) claims opposition to a rejected compact he signed with the Jena Band of Choctaws was mounted in part because he refused to endorse a fellow Republican....

A protest was held in Washington, D.C, against a Clinton administration approved plan that allows Montana state officials to shoot bison that wander out of Yellowstone National Park....

The Department of Interior is trying to resolve conflicts between the energy industry and ranchers and farmers who say coalbed methane drilling hurts the land, a top-level official said on Thursday....

"I am not Native American nor am I personally acquainted with anyone employed by [the Indian Health Board]....

A special Department of Justice commission on Thursday released its report on security measures at the FBI, blasting the agency for allowing weak protections to go uncorrected....

Several management changes are underway at Natchiq Inc, an oil field services subsidiary of Arctic Slope Regional Corp, an Alaska Native corporation....

The Connecticut Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that employees of the Mohegan Tribe cannot be sued in state court....

A federal judge in New York will hear arguments next month about a round of land claims suits filed by the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin....

The Connecticut town of North Stonington is seeking an additional $58,000 to fight the federal recognition of two Pequot tribes....

A wide array of issues of importance to the Navajo Nation will be discussed at a meeting in Shiprock, New Mexico, on Saturday....

A jury was selected on Thursday in the trial of a New Mexico man accused of murdering a Navajo mother....

"A group of students at the University of Northern Colorado, unable to persuade an area high-school to change a Native American mascot it considered offensive, named its intramural basketball team "The Fightin' Whites." The team is made up of Native Americans, Hispanics and Anglos. Players wear jerseys that say "Every thang's going to be all white." "The message is, let's do something that will let people see the other side of what it's like to be a mascot," Solomon Little Owl, one of the players, said when the team was formed last month....

Connecticut Congressional hopeful Jeff Benedict on Thursday filed a primary challenge in the town of Norwich....

The Senate Indian Affairs Committee is holding a hearing on Alaska Native subsistence next week....

Senator Joe Lieberman (D-Conn.) on Thursday wrote a letter to Secretary of Interior Gale Norton to determine whether politics affected a decision to review an Arctic National Wildlife Refuge report....

Two Alaska Native villages and several plaintiffs are challenging the state of Alaska to ensure they are being served by the justice system....

President Bush on Thursday signed into law a bill to allow certain contract disputes on the Gila River Reservation in Arizona to be addressed in federal court....

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A number of FBI employees with a high-level of security have failed an initial round of polygraph tests, FBI officials acknowledged on Wednesday....

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US District Judge Royce Lamberth wants the court official whose reports formed the basis of the Bush administration's contempt trial to keep investigating the Department of Interior for another year....

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A Department of Interior manager who was reassigned to a top-level position in Washington, D.C., after a court official questioned his role in trust reform may be punished for his personal "attacks," a federal judge has said....

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Attorneys for Leonard Peltier gave Indianz.Com a shoutout in the lawsuit they filed today accusing former FBI director Louis J....

The faculty of the University of North Dakota law school last month passed a resolution opposing the school's "Fighting Sioux" nickname and logo....

In an editorial today, The New York Times criticizes Secretary of Interior Gale Norton for scuttling long-standing national policy to curry favor with local interests....

The Clinton and Bush administrations are criticized in a report being released today about the United States' role in the treaty making process....

In this week's issue of Nature, the science journal's editors are disavowing a controversial study which claimed genetically modified corn has infiltrated Mexico....

The Sacagawea golden dollar coins have proven popular with collectors but not with the public so the U.S....

A gaming company has agreed to pay a Rhode Island $50,000 up front and $25,000 every quarter for hosting the Narragansett Tribe's proposed casino....

A group of members of the St....

Cook Inlet Region Inc, an Alaska Native corporation, has asked the Nevada Gaming Control Board for a waiver to ensure stockholders get paid for a casino venture....

Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge on Wednesday said he will meet with two Congressional committees but reiterated the Bush administration's position that he won't formally testify....

Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham on Wednesday said the United States needs to reduce its dependence on oil from the Middle East and drill more federal lands....

The energy industry lobbied the Clinton administration to issue an executive order to speed up review of power plants and development on federal lands but the request was rejected....

The Jacobson House Native Art Center in Norman, Oklahoma, is hosting a traveling exhibit featuring the drawings of Minniconjou Sioux Chief White Bull....

The University of Nebraska at Omaha is hosting the fourth annual Inter-Tribal Student Council Pow Wow this weekend....

Two meetings to address coalbed methane development in Montana are being held today on the Northern Cheyenne and Crow reservations....

American Indian students have the highest dropout rate in the state of Montana, the Office of Public Instruction says in a recent report....

The Federal Communications Commission is refunding $2.8 billion in down payments to several telecommunications companies who bought wireless licenses in a disputed auction that has reached the Supreme Court....

A federal judge has agreed to let a lawsuit challenging an initial reservation for the Pokagon Potawatomi Tribe of Michigan....

The Native American Bank of Montana is planning on establishing another branch this summer....

The Bureau of Indian Affairs in North Dakota is being told to find out why Standing Rock Sioux tribal officials allegedly gave out $7.4 million in personal loans from a settlement fund....

"An axiom of protecting America's natural heritage is that a win is only temporary, but a loss is forever. Nowhere is this more true than open pit mines--immensely damaging projects that leave toxic scars on the public's land and cleanup liabilities with the taxpayers....

In an editorial today, The Farmington Daily-Times says the Navajo Nation's consumer protection law has "backfired" because tribal members are being singled out based on race....

Supporters of gaming on Nebraska's reservations expressed shock and disbelief at the rejection of a proposed constitutional amendment by the Legislature on Wednesday....

The Department of Interior says 85 percent of its computer systems are back up and running but this doesn't include the Bureau of Indian Affairs or of the Office of the Special Trustee....

The controversy over the status of the Seminole Freedmen is discussed in The Chicago Tribune today....

The National High School Finals Rodeo will take place in in Farmington, New Mexico, next year and and will include a special focus on tribes....

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Native American youth have the highest rate of smoking in the nation despite being the smallest segment of the population, a federal report released on Tuesday shows....

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That Don Young....

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The Department of Interior is sitting on top of $67 million in trust funds for Indian beneficiaries who cannot be properly identified, according to a recently released independent audit....

Out of 100 interviews, 27 finalists have been selected in the trial of a white man accused of murdering a Navajo mother in New Mexico....

The state of Wyoming has released a report which claims the Department of Interior has underestimated the amount of natural gas in the Jack Morrow Hills....

The Bush administration is endorsing an Indian scientist whose views on global warming appear more in line with the industry charged with causing climate change....

Two bills are making the rounds in the Arizona Legislature affecting a new $350 million Arizona Cardinals stadium....

Four gaming bills were introduced in the Arizona Legislature on Tuesday as part of a special session aimed at approving new compacts with the state's tribes....

Donald Trump's contract to manage a casino for the Twenty-Nine Palms Band of Mission Indians of California still hasn't been approved by the National Indian Gaming Commission....

The Jena Band of Choctaws aren't commenting on the possibility of opening a casino in Hancock County in Mississippi....

The Rhode Island Legislature must adequately fund a study of casino gaming and complete it in sufficient time or else The New London Day will be forced to admit the Narragansett Tribe is right in criticizing the proposal....

"The firings will have to end soon at the Indian Health Board, a little clinic in south Minneapolis....

Senator Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and environmentalists toured the Walker River basin on Tuesday....

An agreement has been reached to protect salmon and steelhead in the Columbia River....

A lawsuit has been filed in New Mexico state court on behalf of a Navajo man alleges he was unfairly detained for several days at a detoxification center near the Navajo Reservation....

The Bush administration quietly ousted two inspectors general in February, naming replacements so quickly that similar appointees wonder if they will be next....

Financially successful tribes are more than happy to pay Jack Abramoff, a Republican lobbyist, $500 an hour to argue their cause in Washington, D.C....

The Indian Association at the University of North Dakota is holding the 33rd annual Time Out Wacipi this week....

The nation's top Indian gaming regulator on Tuesday urged tribes to commit some of their casinos revenues to education....

The Department of Interior never makes decisions based on political interests....

The federal judge overseeing the Oneida land claim issued a ruling last week dismissing many of the state of New York's objections to the suit....

The Bureau of Indian Affairs isn't yet classifying a recent fire on the Mescalero Apache Reservation in New Mexico as arson....

The Passamaquoddy Tribe of Maine has set up a form on its web site to encourage people to report drug crimes on the Pleasant Point Reservation....

The New York Attorney General's office is raising questions about Internet kiosks the Oneida Nation has placed in convenience stores to sell cigarettes....

A 17-acre Lenape burial site has been declared an emergency historic site by the the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection....

Nearly three out of every four voters in Anchorage voted on Tuesday to urge Alaska state lawmakers to put a subsistence amendment on the November ballot....

Controversial author Jeff Benedict is accusing James Cunha, chairman of the Paucatuck Eastern Pequot Tribe of Connecticut, hindering his run for Congress....

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 2002 Activist and actor Russell Means plans a walking tour of New Mexico to support his gubernatorial run under the new Independent Coalition Party. The walk will start in Santa Fe on April 21 and end on July 4....

The Navajo Nation might develop an extradition agreement concerning the transfer of tribal members to federal authorities....

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The Department of Interior has been withholding documents regarding the security of its information technology systems despite numerous requests from a federal court, according to correspondence made public in recent weeks....

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Controversy over endangered species and treaty rights has put the Klamath River on an environmental group's list of "most endangered" rivers in the country....

A group of private school students from New Mexico took a trip south of the border last month and rode a train through Tarahumara Indian Territory....

The Mohegan Tribe's offer to give $7 million for a water project is being recommended for approval in southeastern Connecticut....

The Arizona State Legislature on Monday began a special session to address Indian gaming and related proposals....

The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider whether a "three strikes" tough-on-crime policy is unconstitutional....

Those wishing to practice law in the state of New Mexico must now have an understanding of Indian law to pass the bar....

Both sides in the fight over a proposed nuclear storage facility at Yucca Mountain in Nevada have enlisted some heavy hitters....

A legislative panel in Connecticut on Monday approved a bill limiting the amount of casino money distributed to five towns....

The Bureau of Indian Affairs has extended by 30 days the public comment period on the federal recognition petitions of two Nipmuc tribes....

Claiming descent from the historic Mohegan Tribe, the Native American Mohegans is seeking recognition from the federal government....

Fort Phil Kearny in Montana is offering students, amateurs and others an opportunity to participate in two archaeological projects this summer....

A tribe hoping to host a new $350 million Arizona Cardinals football stadium would be required to a limited waiver of sovereign immunity to allow taxation and certain lawsuits....

A 3 percent general sales tax went into effect on the Navajo Nation on Monday....

The state of Washington has laid off the only two Indian social workers at its Seattle office....

The newly recognized Cowlitz Tribe of Washington isn't planning on using a land claim settlement fund in the immediate future....

Cook Inlet Region Inc., an Alaska Native regional corporation, posted a record $434 million profit in 2001, the company reported....

Little has changed since the reopening of the McQueen School in Kivalina, Alaska, because the community is dysfunctional, a team assigned to sort out the mess has said....

New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson last month rejected a request by American Indian actor and activist Russell Means to restore his full citizenship rights....

A cast member of the HBO series "Oz" and a former celebrity guard went to court in Connecticut to challenge his removal from the Mashantucket Pequot Reservation....

A dissident group of members of the Skull Valley Goshute of Utah are appealing a Bureau of Indian Affairs decision to recognize Leon Bear as chairman....

A number of Indian beneficiaries haven't received their trust fund payments despite Department of Interior claims to the contrary, reports The Denver Post....

The Bush administration has decided not to renominate a highly regarded atmospheric scientist to head an international body on global warming....

SCHEDULE: SECRETARY SPENCER ABRAHAM Feb....

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A federal judge last week sanctioned the federal government for its handling of the Indian trust fund case but held off on calling Secretary of Interior Gale Norton and others to trial for alleged retaliation against a Bureau of Indian Affairs whistleblower....

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Department of Interior scientists have been directed to reconsider an oil drilling report which cites dangers to a herd of caribou central to the life and culture of an Alaskan tribe....

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Trust fund systems receives permission to restart, Bush administration appeals trust cases to the Supreme Court, penny-pinching comes to Bureau of Indian Affairs budget, and energy task force documents released....

In what is expected to be a boon for tribes, the state of New York is raising its cigarette tax to 39 cents per pack this week....

"Last week, Alaskans observed Seward's Day, celebrating the 1867 treaty that transferred the property of the Russian American Co....

Native American Heritage Week at Northern Arizona University kicked off Sunday with a pow-wow and runs all week, with activities ranging from a fashion show to a men's open basketball tournament....

The 20th annual Montana Wyoming Indian Education Association Conference starts this Saturday in Great Falls, Montana....

The Indian Family Health Clinic in Great Falls, Montana, is seeking a $170,000 grant from the city to expand its services....

"Roger Jourdain, who died 10 days ago in obscure old age in Bemidji, changed history. He stopped the termination and dismantling of Red Lake Reservation, and thereby that of many other Indian entities from Minnesota westward....

"Hey, if "The Fighting Whities" can get some attention, maybe we can then get some attention turned toward the heavier stuff as well....

Conroy Chino is going to back to work at the New Mexico television where the Acoma Pueblo reporter got his start....

An Alaska Native who wrote paid columns for The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner has been fired by the paper....

Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell (R-Colo.) on Friday presented a Colorado man with a commemorative American flag after his original was stolen in an odd incident....

A group of Hopi, Navajo and other students recently marched to the Department of Interior to protest Peabody Coal's use of water in northern Arizona....

The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of Montana have bought an old bank in Polson....

The Siksika First Nation of Alberta is considering suing the province over a disputed cross-jurisdictional police agreement....

Secretary of Interior Gale Norton plans to respond to an inspector general report which calls for law enforcement within the department to be reorganized, a senior aide told The Denver Post....

In an editorial today, The Billings Gazette calls on a coal development project near the Northern Cheyenne Reservation to move forward now that the tribe and a Montana development board have come to an agreement....

The New York Times reviews "The Fast Runner (Atanarjuat)," calling the all-Inuit film "a masterpiece." "It is, by any standard, an extraordinary film, a work of narrative sweep and visual beauty that honors the history of the art form even as it extends its perspective," writes reviewer A....

Steve Charles has left his job as executive director of the Sacred Circle Gallery of American Indian Art in Washington....

"What a year" read yesterday's headline in a local paper covering the Klamath Basin dispute that has pitted farmers against fish and has left tribes in the area with little....

Students at the village school in Kivalina, Alaska, appear to have returned to their old ways, according to The Anchorage Daily News....

An attorney representing 300,000 American Indian beneficiaries to the Individual Indian Money (IIM) trust said the latest round of sanctions in the ongoing case won't cost taxpayers as much as last time....

The National Park Service last December announced its intent to repatriate the oldest leather shields discovered in North America to the Navajo Nation....

"The last time I was in Thief River Falls, I interviewed a bear hunter....

The authors of a report citing dangers to wildlife should drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge be approved were hindered from releasing their research, The Anchorage Daily News reports....
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