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Congressional leaders on Thursday pushed Secretary of Interior Gale Norton to spend more money on Indian Country in order to fight dire living conditions and fix the broken trust fund....

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Tribes looking for relaxed federal oversight of the $10 billion Indian casino industry got part of their wish list fulfilled this week....

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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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Secretary of Interior Gale Norton on Thursday promised to visit a North Dakota tribal college whose funds are being eliminated in her department's fiscal year 2003 budget....

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Conflicts within the Bush administration have forced an indefinite delay on a new and controversial management plan for the Missouri River....

After a year of discussion, the Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday proposed changes to the New Source Review program....

Indian mythology can outweigh facts Editor: Your June 5 story, "Casino makes recycling a priority," demonstrates howpervasive American Indian mythology is....

Minnesota's 11 tribes are opposing a decision to close two state Indian education offices....

House leaders finalized their chamber's picks for a joint Congressional committee that will hammer out a national energy bill....

Jayne Fawcett, the ambassador of the Mohegan Tribe of Connecticut, testified at a Congressional hearing on a bill to authorize tribal governments to administer child welfare programs....

The Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma has assisted in the rescue, recovery and clean up efforts at a bridge that collapsed late last month, killing 14....

Secretary of Interior Gale Norton on Thursday announced the appointment of a new member to her high-level Indian trust management team....

A team of divers and scientists was able to rescue an orca stranded in a Washington bay on Thursday....

A New Mexico man was in stable condition on Thursday after being dragged by a vehicle for more than a half a mile in a bizarre incident tinged with bias claims....

Several gubernatorial candidates in Maine promise to veto any Indian gaming relations measures should they be elected....

Changes in the federal Indian Act are being delayed to address objections from First Nations leaders....

The threat of serious flooding has subsided on the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana but tribal officials are still prepared for the worst as damages from a recent snowstorm continue to be tallied....

Congressional leaders want the new Department of Homeland Security created by September 11....

Windtalkers, the MGM movie about the Marines assigned to protect the Navajo Code Talkers, opens in theaters today....

The Rumsey Band of Wintun Indians of northern California plans to expand its popular casino and local farmers are upset about it....

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Secretary of Interior Gale Norton said today her department has spent at least $13 million to reconnect its computer systems to the Internet....

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In response to controversies during the Clinton administration, the Department of Interior has been asked to clarify whether the recommendations of federal recognition researchers can be overturned....

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Additional documents of the Department of Interior's joint tribal-federal task force on trust reform are published in today's Federal Register....

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A dispute between the Meskwaki Tribe of Iowa and a former consulting is headed back to the state court system....

The Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission has interviewed elders from 11 tribes in Wisconsin, Michigan and Minnesota as part of a project on the traditional use of plants....

A man on the Red Lake Reservation in Minnesota was indicted in federal court for stabbing his wife....

Mohegan chairman being disingenuous Editor: In Gail Ellen Daly's May 28 article, "Band trying to prove its place in history," the Mohegan Tribe of Indians of Connecticut Tribal Chairman Mark Brown is quoted: "In 1993, just prior to federal recognition, we tried to locate anyone who could show, through genealogy, they had common ancestors." Brown's comments are disingenuous at best....

Former South Dakota gubernatorial candidate Ron Volesky plans to seek the Democratic nomination for state attorney general....

A museum in Australia will repatriate the skulls of eight Tasmanian Aboriginals....

The Environmental Protection Agency is relaxing air pollution rules governing aging coal-burning power plants....

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ruled that the US Commission on Civil Rights (USCCR) retaliated against a former worker who filed a discrimination complaint....

President Bush will work to increase high-speed Internet access, The Washington Post reports today....

Congressional leaders met with Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge on Thursday to discuss the creation of a new Cabinet department....

The Kansas University Museum of Anthropology will host its last Indian Arts Show this fall....

The Environmental Protection Agency in April warned the Mescalero Apache Nation of New Mexico that it was violating the Clean Water Act....

The Department of Education is calling for states to overhaul their teacher certification systems....

The Mississippi Band of Choctaws can run a car dealership, a Louisiana state panel said on Wednesday....

A group of Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian elders came together more than 20 years ago and looked for a way to stop the loss of their cultures....

Tohono O'odham Nation police spend most of their days dealing with Mexican nationals who use the Arizona tribe's 4,500-square-mile reservation to enter the U.S....

The Navajo Code Talkers seem to get all the credit but warriors from other tribal nations also helped the United States with code efforts during World War II....

The leader of the nation's largest organization of Indian casinos on Wednesday called for the federal government to revoke hundreds of Clinton-era mandates deemed obtrusive to tribal sovereignty....

San Ildefonso Pueblo in New Mexico is working with local officials on a project that could help provide clean water for the region....

Rebecca Watson of the Department of Interior has recused herself from coalbed methane drilling issues in the Powder River Basin of Wyoming and Montana....

Damage from a recent storm that hit the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana is estimated at $1 million, with tribal leaders and residents fearing additional flooding....

The Advisory Council on Historic Preservation on Wednesday held a hearing in South Dakota....

Secretary of Interior Gale Norton has ordered any employees with fire certification to report for fire duty....

Tlingit tribal members in Washington held a ceremony on Wednesday for an orphaned orca....

Exxon Mobil Corp has lowered the amount of damages it wants to pay to Alaska Natives, fishermen, land owners and others affected by the Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989....

The Seminole Tribe of Florida filed a lawsuit in state court, alleging former employees bilked $4 million in tribal profits....

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In an interesting twist, a conservative legal group which has fought protection of sacred sites and Native voting rights has submitted a Supreme Court brief championing Indian law victories....

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The Bureau of Indian Affairs has spent more than $100,000 on a federal recognition project involving just one tribe but officials on Tuesday insisted the system will speed up review of groups that have waited years to get an answer on their status....

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A federal judge on Tuesday halted work at a site near the Missouri River in response to a lawsuit a South Dakota tribe filed when human remains were removed without notification....

The Bureau of Indian Affairs has delayed a decision on a casino land approval decision in New York, Steve Israel reports in his "Casino Confidential" column....

The Senate on Tuesday shelved debate on a federal hate crimes bill....

White House vandalism that occurred at the end of the Clinton administration cost American taxpayers upwards of $14,000, Congressional investigators concluded in a report released on Tuesday....

A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the federal government to halt all timber sales in parts of the Tongass National Forest in Alaska....

An effort to bring electricity to 111 homes on the Navajo Reservation in New Mexico kicked off this week....

One-time Labor Secretary nominee Linda Chavez scuffled recently with a man she accuses of spreading hate....

Several Maine towns on Tuesday rejected a proposed tribal casino....

The president and four members of a school board in Michigan were recalled on Monday because they wanted to get rid of a school's mascot....

Action was delayed on Monday on a resolution to urge recognition of a sacred mountain in Minnesota....

Windtalkers, the MGM movie about the Marines assigned to protect the Navajo Code Talkers, officially opens nationwide on Friday....

The Kansas State Board of Education was urged on Tuesday to eliminate Indian mascots from all public schools....

Fire crews from nine tribes in Oklahoma are helping battle blazes throughout the country....

The tribes on the Fort Belknap Reservation want the federal government to return mountains that have been largely destroyed by gold mining....

Two tribes will share in a $2.6 million fund a New Mexico judge approved last month....

Members of the Yankton Sioux Tribe of South Dakota were overjoyed with Tuesday's ruling to halt work at a burial site....

The Idaho Supreme Court will decide on the legality of a tribal gaming initiative....

Montana Governor Judy Martz on Tuesday authorized emergency status to help families on the Blackfeet Reservation, which was hit by a heavy snowstorm over the weekend....

The Bureau of Indian Affairs official in charge of federal recognition on Tuesday said that a jump in petitions was recorded after the passage of an Indian gaming law in 1988....

Representatives of Alaska Native hunters and the federal government have finalized a whaling agreement....

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At least one tribe's sprawling casino empire has been called into question by federal gaming regulators concerned about land approval policies at the Bureau of Indian Affairs....

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The Bureau of Indian Affairs, facing criticism from tribes, state governments and the media, goes before Congress today to report on federal recognition, one of its most controversial duties....

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In contrast to previous years, the Supreme Court has refused to take a number of Indian law disputes this term....

Yup'iks could marry the tall to create millionaires By Harley Sundown (Published: June 11, 2002) Scammon Bay -- I have a great idea on how we can diversify our economy out here in village Alaska....

The General Accounting Office (GAO) on Monday released a report criticizing the Army Corps of Engineers for overestimating the benefits of a $311 million project to dredge the Delaware River....

The Supreme Court on Monday ruled that employers have the right to determine whether a job would endanger the health and welfare of an employee....

A federal appeals court heard oral arguments on Monday in a case challenging oil and gas exploration off the coast of California....

Attorney General John Aschroft announced on Monday the arrest and detention of an American citizen he said was a known terrorist agent plotting to detonate a bomb within the United States....

The Seneca Nation is distributing annuity checks to tribal members this month....

Tourists from Germany, Japan and Europe come to South Dakota to get a taste of Native culture and the Old West, according to the tourist agency. A particular draw is the Crazy Horse memorial under construction. Interest has grown as parts of the huge rock sculpture takes shape....

A new web site outlines how nuclear waste will get to Yucca Mountain in Nevada but foes of a Utah tribe's plan to store the highly radioactive material hope to use the information too....

Indian people throughout the nation are losing their languages at an alarming rate....

The Piegan Institute was founded by some members of the Blackfeet Tribe of Montana who wanted to keep their language alive....

Alaska Natives this weekend celebrated the return of a traditional rattle....

A member of the Tohono O'odham Nation of Arizona was warned against placing water jugs on tribal land for illegal immigrants, The Arizona Daily Star reports....

In an opinion published in The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, a former Alaska state wildlife official accuses Alaska Native leaders of stalling on subsistence....

The Blackfeet Reservation in Montana has been declared a weather disaster area by the tribal council....

A federal judge on Monday refused a government request to dismiss a lawsuit challenging the excavation of human remains at an Army Corps of Engineers site along the Missouri River....

A class action suit alleging mismanagement of Navajo trust funds is proceeding in federal court in Utah....

President Bush didn't really read an Environmental Protection Agency report on global warming, White House spokesperson Ari Fleischer admitted on Monday....

Nebraska authorities on Monday cited seven people who drank beer in public to protest liquor sales to Native Americans....

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The Supreme Court avoided Indian law cases this term like the plague but picked two that could have a dramatic impact on tribes nationwide....

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One tribe's whale hunt remains intact thanks to a federal appeals court while another one affecting Alaska Natives languishes amid an international power play....

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Tribal leaders now engaged in settlement talks with the Bush administration have spent months mired in a turf war that pits their interests against those of tribal members affected by the Indian trust fund lawsuit....

Fighting crime on reservations in Arizona ranked ahead of terrorism prior to September 11's attacks, The Los Angeles Times reports....

A public-private coalition that includes tribes is working on a new research center to house thousands of artifacts at the Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado....

Sandia Pueblo in New Mexico dedicated its new church, the result of a $2.3 million effort financed by gaming profits....

A joint state-federal study on coalbed methane drilling is drawing complaints by the public....

Native Americans turned out to support a tribal member running for governor of South Dakota but not in large enough numbers to make a difference....

Republican activists are wrapping up work on a research project that identifies the political proclivities of lobbyists....

The Red Lake Nation of Minnesota is hosting its seventh annual Economic Development Summit next week....

An environmental group has filed suit in federal court to stop ranchers on the Coeur d'Alene Reservation from burning their grass fields....

The Sealaska Heritage Institute celebrated its 20th annual biennial gathering of Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian tribal members from Alaska and Canada....

The Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation offered Democrats money to fight a candidate who wants the tribe terminated....

The Kansas state Board of Education will consider banning all Indian-themed mascots at public schools....

The Sioux Falls Argus Leader in an editorial today praises a new project underway on the Rosebud Sioux Reservation in South Dakota....

The state of Oklahoma hoisted "The Guardian" atop its capitol on Friday, the last state in the Union to complete its dome work but the first to feature a Native American....

Minnesota's tribes showed economic improvement over the past decade, according to Census figures examined by The Minneapolis Star Tribune....

The state of South Dakota moved a member of the Yankton Sioux Tribe to tears by questioning whether the discovery of remains at a work site was faked....

Poarch Creek chairman Eddie Tullis is accusing the state of Alabama of unfairly targeting his tribe....

A federal appeals court on Friday paved the way for a South Dakota tribe to recover funds illegally paid to a casino company, vindicating a tribal member who once helped to uncover a federal fraud scheme....

A poll conducted by The Washington and ABC News shows most Americans support the creation of a Department of Homeland Security....

American Indian Movement activist and actor Russell Means has a running mate for his New Mexican gubernatorial race....

The Seneca Nation of New York is pushing Governor George Pataki (R) to finalize a gaming compact that tribal members have approved....
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