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Outspoken critics of the federal recognition process on Thursday announced their expected challenge to one of the Bush administration's most controversial decisions on the subject....

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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....

The White House is finalizing a report on the Tar Creek Superfund site in Oklahoma....

California's Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indian signed an agreement with MGM Mirage for a casino....

The Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma says its claim to ancestral land in Kansas is being distorted....

The Department of Housing and Urban Development has awarded more than $3 million to Montana tribes to promote economic development and affordable housing....

Navajo Nation President Kelsey Begaye toured reservation communities hit hard by heavy rain and floods....

The Sioux Falls Argus Leader in an editorial today says the Oglala Lakota Tribe of South Dakota "deserves praise" for trying to improve its reservation economy....

The new museum at the Haskell Indian Nations University is ready for visitors....

The National Museum of the American Indian's first pow-wow at its new site in Washington, D.C., is historic, organizers and participants say....

A new center at the University of Colorado reaches out to Native veterans in rural areas....

Recent sightings of rare birds in the Yup'ik village of Gambell in Alaska have the bird community excited....

A federal judge on Thursday refused to order the Miss America pageant to allow a member of North Carolina's Lumbee Tribe to compete....

The attorney for ex-Crow Nation chairman Clifford Bird In Ground intends to produce expert testimony "relating to the mental condition of the defendant bearing upon the issue of guilt," The Billings Gazette reports today....

A federal appeals court on Thursday handed another victory to a small Michigan tribe seeking to bring fairness to a casino-bidding process it was excluded from....

Senators Pete Domenici (R-N.M.) and Ben Nighthorse Campbell (R-Colo.) successfully negotiated changes in energy policy to benefit Indian Country....

"General Bush was the supreme cavalry commander of all the cavalry in the United States of America....

Republican National Committee Chairman Marc Racicot disputed claims that the federal recognition process is influenced by political contributions....

An Oklahoma lawmaker who said he would write a bill requiring Oklahoma tribal members to have 50 percent Indian blood has drawn significant discussion....

Tesuque Pueblo in New Mexico plans to build a new church after its old one was destroyed by fire....

The state of New Mexico filed a motion in federal court on Thursday to limit Pojoaque Pueblo's water use....

In a move immediately criticized as political pandering, Connecticut Governor John Rowland (R) for the first time said he was opposed to additional tribal casinos in the state....

Two controversial bills that benefit Alaska Natives passed the House Resources Committee on Thursday....

A federal judge on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit filed members of the Skull Valley Goshute Tribe of Utah....

The Blackfeet Nation tribal council voted to allow non-Indians to graze cattle on tribal land....

The leaders of the Eastern Pequot tribes said they were confident their historic federal status would be upheld despite a challenge from the state of Connecticut....

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The Department of Interior plans to lease a commercially viable plot of land in Oklahoma despite a state court ruling affirming the rights of a group of Indian beneficiaries....

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Efforts to correct more than a century of Indian trust mismanagement have been dealt a major "setback" because the Bush administration won't agree to needed changes, a key tribal leader said on Wednesday....

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A 19th century treaty does not exempt members of a Washington tribe from federal taxes, an appeals court decided on Wednesday....

A federal judge on Wednesday refused to disqualify a group of attorneys from a controversial farmer's discrimination case....

Three members of the Shinnecock Nation of New York were cleared of state charges after being arrested during a protest over ancestral land....

A unanimous New Mexico court ruling requires cleanup of uranium mines located near tribal land....

The public will get a chance to comment tonight on a controversial highway expansion planned in Kansas....

"The tribal council of the Soboba Tribe of Luiseno Indians, on whose land the motocross facility is built, voted late last week to close the park immediately....

The Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation of Connecticut will participate in parade to recognize the rescue efforts a tribal business played during the September 11 terrorist attacks....

Supporters of expanded gaming in Nebraska are rushing to meet a deadline to have their voter initiative placed on the November ballot....

A water rights pact affecting the Gila River Tribe of Arizona is being finalized, The Eastern Arizona Courier reports....

A Minnesota non-profit organization is seeking $4.7 million in tobacco settlement funds to implement programs for those who want to quit....

Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal plans to announce today whether the state will appeal the recognition of the historic Eastern Pequot Tribe....

A proposal to increase Alaska Native authority over hunting isn't included in a bill before a House committee....

New Mexico state funds are being used to prosecute a man convicted of murdering a Navajo woman....

A casino proposal by the Ho-Chunk Nation is going before voters of a Wisconsin city....

The Nooksack Tribe of Washington is asking for comments about a disputed compost dump that neighbors complain is smelly....

A federal judge plans to rule today on the rightful North Carolina representative to the Miss America pageant....

The National Museum of the American Indian will hold a pow-wow this weekend on the Mall in Washington, D.C....

An attorney representing an Indian business owner said a court ruling on taxation is unfair....

Tribes in Oklahoma are still offering customers a game considered illegal in the state, The Daily Oklahoman reports....

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A non-Indian company with close ties to the $12.7 billion tribal gaming industry lost a court battle this week over the future of its controversial casino games....

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Tribes have ended talks with the Bush administration over a critical aspect of trust reform, citing resistance of government officials worried about litigation stemming from a century of Indian money mismanagement....

Connecticut's two senators on Tuesday introduced a rider to the Department of Interior budget bill to halt all federal recognition decisions until the process is reformed....

Only three people spoke at a hearing on a $500 million casino project in the Catskills region of New York, The Middletown Times Herald-Record reports today....

The Northern Navajo Fair's upcoming parade in Shiprock, New Mexico, might not take place in Shiprock....

Supporters of expanded gaming in Nebraska on Tuesday said they planned to fight a court ruling that removed their video slot initiative from the upcoming November ballot....

A California tribe has voted to shut down a motorcross racing track built on its reservation but the company involved said the action doesn't mean anything....

During a roundtable discussion with regional reporters on Tuesday, Secretary of Interior Gale Norton dismissed a proposal for citizens to oversee the trans-Alaska oil pipeline....

A member of the Oglala Lakota Tribe lost the Green Party's nomination to a Senate seat in Minnesota....

A federal judge on Tuesday heard testimony from a Lumbee woman seeking the right to participate in the Miss America pageant....

The Nooksack Tribe of Washington has ordered a dump operating on individual Indian land to shut down....

The Bush administration put the nation on "high alert" on Tuesday for the first time, citing potential terrorist attacks on U.S....

Navajo Nation President Kelsey Begaye got less than half the votes of his main challenger, according to primary results reported by The Farmington Daily-Times....

A Canadian man faces hate crime charges for allegedly killing a 24-year-old Native woman....

Three Oregon men apologized on Tuesday to the Klamath Tribes for a racially-motivated shooting that occurred at the height of Indian and non-Indian tensions over scarce water resources....

A federal appeals court on Tuesday halted a decision to take land into trust for a California tribe....

A New Mexico man has pleaded guilty to selling eagle feathers and sacred Indian artifacts....

A 2,800-mile cross-country run to raise awareness of tribal sovereignty begins today on the Quinault Reservation in Washington....

Shares in a casino game company who lost a challenge against federal Indian gaming regulators were down about 5 percent at mid-day....

Sandia Pueblo in New Mexico has purchased a key piece of its ancestral territory....

The Helena Independent Record of Montana asked the state's tribal and Indian leaders for their thoughts on the anniversary of the September 11 attacks....

A New Mexico man convicted of murdering a Navajo woman and facing a trial for the death of a Navajo man has slowed down proceedings in yet another murder case....

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The Bush administration last week denied federal recognition to a California tribe, affirming one of Assistant Secretary Neal McCaleb's first rulings on the controversial subject....

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The Department of Interior continues to resist a court order to account for billions of dollars in Indian trust funds, nearly three years after a federal judge's landmark decision....

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If the folks at the MTV show "Cribs" were to venture over to Congress to do a taping, they'd find the interestingly decorated digs of Sen....

Barring additional delays, the first American Indian will go into space in early November....

"After reading recent letters to the editor, it seems to me that many people have either, not read Jeff Benedict's book, or have read and did not understand it....

A private corporation has patented a strain of Ojibwe wild rice, Anishinaabeg activist Winona LaDuke said....

Three New Mexico tribes have received Department of Agriculture grants for food and agriculture homeland security....

A Nebraska state judge on Monday ruled against a voter initiative that would expand casino gaming....

Alaska Native corporations have taken a lead role in cleaning up the "environmental mess" left by the federal government on the Pribilof Islands....

Members of the Chumash Tribe of California are opposing a gun shooting range near a sacred site....

A federal judge is expected to rule this week on the disputed leadership of the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma....

Newly elected leaders of the Catawba Nation of South Carolina were refused access to the tribe's longhouse on Monday....

Two different Lumbee tribal organizations in North Carolina have received federal grants to start credit unions....

The chairman of the Crow Tribe of Montana resigned, the Associated Press reports....

California Governor Gray Davis (D) has until the end of the month to sign or veto a bill that would help tribes protect sacred sites near their reservations....

"When President John F Kennedy was assassinated, I saw it on television in the waiting room of the Minot Air Force Hospital....

Disney recently shot scenes for an upcoming film about a Lakota Sioux horse racer on the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana....

An oversight panel in Alaska has made recommendations to distribute Bering Sea fish and crab harvest shares among Alaska Native seafood companies....

The Muwekma Ohlone Tribe of California once met with the mayor of a Bay Area city to discuss a possible casino....

A federal judge in California rejected a lawsuit challenging one of the Bush administration's first land-into-trust decisions....

The ex-boyfriend of a Lumbee woman who wants to compete in the Miss America pageant is facing a lawsuit over revealing photos he allegedly took of her....

The Senate Indian Affairs Committee will hold a hearing next week on federal recognition....

Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal is criticizing Assistant Secretary Neal McCaleb for holding a meeting with two Pequot tribes....

The United Keetoowah Band of Cherokees wants to intervene in a lawsuit over the Arkansas River of Oklahoma....

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Enforcement of drug laws on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota violates tribal sovereignty, a family whose industrial hemp crop has been targeted for destruction argued recently in court papers....

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The Seminole Nation of Oklahoma last week said it opened a probe into allegations of financial mismanagement amid a bitter leadership dispute and cash-flow problems....

The Army Corps of Engineers is holding a public hearing on Thursday over a highway project that would affect wetlands near Haskell Indian Nations University in Kansas....

An Alaska Native regional corporation hopes to finalize a $2.5 billion defense contract....

A dissident group of Cawtaba tribal members elected new leaders on Saturday....

A federal appeals court on Friday refused to halt a special election for a Native-heavy voting district in Montana....

Members of the Lummi Nation of Washington finished their cross-country journey in honor of the September 11 terrorist attacks....

Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell (R-Colo.), Northern Cheyenne tribal member, visited AIDS victims in Africa with a contingent of Senate Democrats during the August recess....

The Army Corps of Engineers has awarded a wetlands permit to the Muckleshoot Tribe of Washington....

Joy Shockley is one of many Native students entering college this year. Her choice just happens to be on the other side of the country....

The Seminole Nation of Oklahoma has started an investigation of the activities of its disputed former chief....

Six Native American veterans are walking across the country to draw attention to veterans issues....

The Blackfeet Nation of Montana is participating in a program to restore swift fox to the reservation....

Police in Wisconsin are still trying to find a sacred eagle feather bustle thieves took from a priest whose home was also burned....

The Montana-Wyoming Tribal Leaders Council is co-sponsoring a legislative forum in November to focus on issues affecting tribal and urban Indian communities....

The Navajo Nation holds primary elections for president tomorrow....

A member of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina arrived at the Miss America pageant over the weekend amid questions over her status in the competition....

The Nez Perce Tribe of Idaho is hosting its annual pipe ceremony to mark one of the battles of the Nez Perce War of 1877....

"Really Stupid Stuff That Vexes Me: Federal Judge rules Kennewick Man is NOT Native American, but actually an ancestor of modern scientists. Therefore, the scientists get to further ravage, I mean study, the remains. I wrote about this last year sometime, I think....

"Thanks to an Aug....

Federal judge rules on Kennewick Man, Bush administration makes picks on Indian gaming, reports discuss jails and drug use, and court dismisses Oneida Nation land claim suits....

"Environmentalists want legislation that will keep this part of North Dakota as it is, and I agree with them. It doesn't take long to destroy this kind of wild beauty....

Momentum is building to restore the population of the rare mountain goat, an animal revered by the Sauk-Suiattle Tribe of Washington....
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