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The first question most people ask Brian Burns is not about his background in federal government....

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In one of his final rulings as head of the federal government's ultra-secretive national security court, U.S....

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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....

A Tohono O'odham Nation judge has been suspended after an arrest for driving under the influence of alcohol in a tribal vehicle....

A group of African-American farmers held a protest outside the Department of Agriculture in Washington, D.C., on Thursday....

A federal judge on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit affecting an off-reservation casino proposed by the St....

A Rhode Island group is claiming to be the true descendants of the historic Eastern Pequot Tribe....

Fourth-grade students at a school on the Omaha Reservation in Nebraska saw their test scores jump dramatically....

Two members of the Navajo Agricultural Products Industry board resigned recently, citing tribal politics and a lack of acceptance because they are white....

"When “Without Reservation” appeared a few years ago, blurbs from the publisher said [Jeff] Benedict's book would show that the Pequots weren't really Pequots....

President Bush and Secretary of Interior Gale Norton on Thursday announced the Healthy Forest Initiative, an attempt to keep federal forests free of timber overgrowth tied to massive wildfires....

The Amazon basin in Brazil is being destroyed at a rate of more than 6,000 square miles a year, mostly by large landowners who burn the forest to make way for farming and cattle grazing....

The Sioux Falls Argus Leader in an editorial today promotes consultation with tribes on burial sites....

The Department of Justice appealed a order that limited its law enforcement and national security powers on Thursday, the same day the stinging rebuke was made public....

"Windtalkers," the $100 million-plus flop about Marines assigned to protect the Navajo Code Talkers during World War II, was warmly received by many in the Navajo community....

Leaders of the Sokaogon Ojibwe Tribe of Wisconsin attending the World Summit on Sustainable Development in South Africa next week....

Secretary of Interior Gale Norton should be sent to jail for her handling of the Individual Indian Money (IIM) trust, Elouise Cobell said on Thursday....

A petition is underway to have Frederick Lincoln Wray Jr., a 73-year-old] Shawnee man, inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame....

The Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation of Connecticut kicked of its annual Schemitzun pow-wow on Thursday....

Police in Alaska waited 40 minutes into a 911 call before asking for directions to the home of an Alaska Native corporate executive who was shot and killed in a domestic-related dispute....

An estimated 2,500 turned out for the fifth annual "We the People" march for Alaska Native sovereignty on Thursday....

A former Bureau of Indian Affairs employee who pleaded guilty to killing four people in an alcohol-related accident in New Mexico plans to appeal his 20-year prison sentence....

The Spokesman Review in an editorial today calls on the Idaho's Republican leadership to stop bashing the state's tribes....

A Navajo Nation court on Wednesday struck down a $10,000 pay hike tribal council members approved for themselves....

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After three years of federal service during which the tribal casino industry grew to a $12.7 billion economic powerhouse, Montie R....

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An energetic Osage Nation welcomed the team responsible for the landmark Indian trust fund lawsuit to Oklahoma on Wednesday for a spirited discussion on what was called the largest scandal in U.S....

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Former Native American Times publisher Jim Gray is now Principal Chief of the Osage Nation, a position that keeps him on the go these days....

Police in Alaska have completed their investigation into the fatal shooting of an Alaska Native executive....

A California bill that would protect sacred sites is "ripe for abuse," The Wall Street Journal says in an editorial....

President Bush and Secretary of Interior Gale Norton are announcing changes in forest management policy....

The Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin says a fourth casino could bring in $40 million in annual profits....

Three Democratic candidates for governor of Wisconsin held a debate on Wednesday night....

The Mohegan Tribe of Connecticut has begun a shellfish project in nearby Rhode Island....

A member of the Mohegan Tribe of Connecticut believes he is close to collecting enough signatures for a petition to oust two tribal officials....

The Flathead Nation of Montana is considering changing its enrollment policy....

The Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe of South Dakota is involved in discussions to protect the Big Sioux River....

A Tlingit man from the Alaska village of Angoon has been missing since late Saturday or early Sunday....

Comparisons to some of the largest scandals in history abounded at meetings held in Oklahoma to discuss the Indian trust fund lawsuit....

Author and failed Congressional candidate Jeff Benedict didn't fully research the genealogy of members of the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation of Connecticut....

Museums throughout the country were on the prowl last weekend at the 81st annual Santa Fe Indian Market in New Mexico....

Four tribes are opening a $43 million hotel in downtown Washington, D.C....

Voters of the Chickasaw Nation of Oklahoma have rejected a proposal to build a new tribal capitol....

Ruth Claplanhoo, a 100-year-old member of the Makah Nation of Washington, died at her home on the reservation on Monday....

About 4,000 to 5,000 are expected to march today for Alaska Native sovereignty....

Outgoing National Indian Gaming Commission Chairman Montie Deer did a good job regulating the $12.7 billion Indian gaming industry, a casino game company with close ties to Oklahoma said....

"Skins," the latest film by Chris Eyre, is going on a mobile tour....

The Department of Interior in December 2000 promised two California tribes it would restore flows in a river in order to fulfill its treaty and trust responsibilities....

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A federal judge last week rejected the Bush administration's attempt to delay a trust fund payment that has been denied to Indian beneficiaries for 30 years....

A former executive of Enron Corp....

Lawmakers in the House and Senate are criticizing Attorney General John Ashcroft and the Department of Justice of holding back vital information....

Three environmental organizations sued the Bush administration on Tuesday to halt limestone mining in the Florida Everglades....

A Democratic candidate for governor of Nebraska wants to solve liquor use problems in the border town of Whiteclay....

A federal judge on Tuesday issued a temporary injunction to block drilling in the Canyons of the Ancients National Monument of Colorado....

The Forest County Potawatomi Tribe spent more than $800,000 to lobby state lawmakers....

Voters in a Connecticut town are being asked to approve money to fight the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation....

Two factions of the historical Eastern Pequot Tribe of Connecticut met with Assistant Secretary Neal McCaleb last week....

Members of the Turtle Mountain Ojibwe Tribe of North Dakota deserve a strong tribal government, The Grand Forks Herald in an editorial today....

Senator Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) plans to introduce a bill to streamline the sale of timber on lands devastated by the Rodeo-Chediski Fire....

Alaska Natives have joined environmental and public interest groups in seeking new studies on the trans-Alaska pipeline....

Tribal police from the Walker River Paiute Reservation in Nevada helped rescue a 10-year-old girl who was abducted from her home....

A Greek monastery has changed plans to build a church near the Arizona burial site of Apache leader Cochise....

Ex-Seminole chief Jim Billie has agreed to pay his Florida tribe $169,000 to settle two lawsuits....

The Seneca Nation of New York has an ambitious schedule to open the first of three casinos as part of a gaming compact signed with the state....

A construction firm has sued the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma for $77.5 million, alleging fraud and breach of contract....

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The state of Idaho does not have the right to tax the sale of gas in Indian Country, a federal judge has ruled....

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Native American elders lack adequate long-term health care options, a problem that has mushroomed as the Indian population grows older, according to a series of discussion reports....

Oklahoma Senator Kelly Haney has raised more than $600,000 for his campaign for governor....

North Dakota Native Americans have the lowest income in the state, according to Census Bureau figures....

The income gap between Native Americans and whites narrowed during the 1990s, according to Census Bureau figures....

A New York man forged his birth certificate and a state census document to try and prove he is Indian, Steve Israel of The Middletown Times Herald-Record reports in his column "Casino Confidential." Ron "Chief Golden Eagle" Roberts sent the documents to the Bureau of Indian Affairs....

Four environmental groups on Monday sued to block an exploratory drilling project in the Canyons of the Ancients National Monument in Colorado....

The Passamaquoddy Tribe of Maine is trying to preserve petroglyphs from vandals and development....

The Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin is moving forward with plans for another casino....

John "Kevin" Schultz, an officer for Pojoaque Pueblo in New Mexico, died over the weekend while saving a 12-year-old boy who was drowning....

An anti-gambling group called Casinos No! is holding a meeting to discuss Indian gaming in the state of Maine....

"A good fabric store always has plenty of calico prints, eye-popping colors ranging from greens and purples to yellow and blues....

The provincial Nova Scotia government is refunding a Mi'kmaq First Nation $16 million in gas taxes, with more to follow....

Native American women in Connecticut are paid less than their male counterparts, according to Census Bureau figures....

The Black Mesa Trust is holding a forum next month to discuss water issues affecting the Hopi Tribe of Arizona....

Idaho tribes are welcoming a federal judge's decision to strike down a tax on the sale of gasoline....

The Lummi Nation of Washington is sending a 13-foot totem pole to the site of the September 11 terrorist attack on New York City....

A science project by four teenage girls has drawn national attention to the Crow Tribe of Montana....

A federal court in Arizona is holding a trial for a Navajo woman accused of murdering three of her children....

Tribal officials and ranchers in South Dakota met with Secretary of Interior Gale Norton recently to talk about the black-tailed prairie dog....

A three-year-old boy from the Alaska village of Scammon Bay took a one-hour, 150-mile commuter flight on Saturday....

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission rejected a request by the state of Utah to study whether terrorist attacks will affect a tribe's proposed nuclear waste dump....

"The Three Affiliated Tribes in New Town, N.D., are considering changing the spelling of Sakakawea to Sacagawea, according to The Associated Press. "The Indian woman," as explorer William Clark most often called her, was a guide for the (Meriwether) Lewis and Clark journey to the Pacific Northwest when she was about 16. In my view, the Sakakawea spelling shouldn't be changed in North Dakota. ....

The Seneca Nation of New York will build a community wellness center on its Allegany Reservation....

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Trust duties still a major source of dispute, tribal sovereignty a focus of historic cross-country run, nuclear waste debate puts tribes in middle, and Native artists get major boost at New Mexico market....

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A federal appeals court on Friday upheld Clinton-era regulations that limit flights over tribal and sacred land in the Grand Canyon National Park of Arizona....

The Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation will kick off its annual Schemitzun pow-wow on Thursday....

The Alaska Native Summit on Fish, Wildlife, Habitat and the Environment began on Sunday in Anchorage, Alaska....

"I have never been raped, but you don't have to be sexual assaulted to understand a violent act (verbal or physical) committed against you....

A fire in the village of Gambell last Thursday killed Anna Okhtokiyuk, a respected Alaska Native elder....

A funeral service was held on Friday for Glenn Godfrey, the first Alaska Native to reach the highest ranks of the Alaska state police....

The Seneca Nation and New York Gov....

The 85th Crow Nation Fair is ending today after five days of dancing, drumming and more....

The Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center in Connecticut has seen 1 million visitors pass through its doors since it opened four years ago....

"I remember few events from the first years of my life, but Indian Market in those days has been imprinted on my mind's eye....

The 81st annual Indian Market ended in Santa Fe, New Mexico, on Sunday. The event was expected to draw at least 70,000 to the city to see the works of more than 1,000 artists....

The Bush administration wants to create a national Indian energy office, Assistant Secretary Neal McCaleb said....

Members of the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe of South Dakota are asking Congress to place their debt-ridden tribal government into receivership....

The Department of Justice spent more than $20 million to collect and analyze trust fund documents for the five named plaintiffs in the Cobell v. Norton lawsuit....

The Mohegan Tribe of Connecticut held its annual Wigwam Festival over the weekend....

Bush administration officials recently approved a massive land swap in Utah over the objections of Bureau of Land Management experts....
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