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Indian Country, are you ready for round two? The son of BITAM, that disastrous proposal to fix the broken Indian trust, is coming your way around January 6, 2003....

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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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Department of Interior officials on Thursday announced their intent to more forward with critical changes in the management of Indian trust assets without the consent of tribal leaders....

Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell (R-Colorado) has introduced legislation to grant permanent United States residency to a Mexican national who entered the country illegally....

Department of Justice prosecutors "mistakenly" gave 48 classified documents to the only person charged in connection with the September 11 terrorist attacks, The New York Times reports today....

A House subcommittee held a hearing on Wednesday to address unresolved discrimination problems at the Department of Agriculture....

Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee bashed President Bush's nominee for a federal court appeals position....

The Golden Hill Paugussett Tribe of Connecticut is challenging a study which claims a casino will create traffic problems....

A Kansas county commission endorsed plans for a highway expansion that runs through land considered sacred to Haskell Indian Nations University....

Republican members on the joint House-Senate energy policy conference committee proposed what is termed a "compromise" to allow drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge....

"[A] new dawn is breaking on Amerindia's horizon....

Opponents of tribes in Connecticut are accusing Senator Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii) and the Senate Indian Affairs Committee of a conflict of interest....

The state of Connecticut and three towns on Thursday appealed Assistant Secretary Neal McCaleb's decision to recognize the historic Eastern Pequot Tribe....

The Seneca Nation of New York is waiting on two casino-related approvals from the Bureau of Indian Affairs....

The Bush administration, backed by Republicans in Congress, is challenging about $2 million in legal fees collected and owed to court investigators in the Individual Indian Money (IIM) class action....

Haskell Indian Nations University held the first of monthly meetings with students on Thursday....

Navajo Nation vice-presidential candidate Frank Dayish helped arrange for a Navajo woman's home, destroyed by fire, to be rebuilt....

Biologists with the Yurok and Hoopa tribes in northern California estimate that 30,000 salmon have died in the Klamath River....

Members of the Quechan Nation of California and Arizona are wrapping up a 700-mile run in support of their most sacred site....

"Why rely on a fly-by-night company for your deception and fraud needs? We have a proven track record of lying and concealment! Our record of robbing the poor and working class of billions speaks for itself! We're the U.S....

Stephen Hunter of The Washington Post reviews "Skins," director Chris Eyre's latest film, and calls it an accurate picture of the ills "that haunt any defeated culture." "Skins" tells the story of two brothers whose lives seem rather different. Rudy (Eric Schweig) is a police officer while Mogie (Graham Greene) is an alcoholic veteran....

Senator Jim Inhofe (R-Oklahome) has placed a hold on a bill to change how allotments belonging to members of the Five Civilized Nations are handled....

Four Pacific Northwest tribes who count the 9,000-year-old remains of a Native man as their ancestor are seeking to appeal a court decision that allows him to be studied....

Senator John McCain (R-Arizona) was critical of the Department of Interior at a Senate hearing on Indian trust this week....

The nation's largest inter-tribal organization criticized the Bush administration's draft legislation to take "unclaimed" Indian land....

A California state commission sued the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians on Thursday to force compliance with a state campaign finance law....

The House Resources Committee on Wednesday held a hearing on a bill to extend federal recognition to six Virginia tribes....

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We all know that tribal governments have sovereign immunity (well, in most cases) but did you know that the only Native American in the Senate does as well? That's according to U.S....

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President Bush's nominee to be the chief regulator of the $12.7 billion and growing Indian gaming industry drew bipartisan support at his confirmation hearing on Wednesday....

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The Bush administration has drafted legislation to take "unclaimed" land belonging to individual Indian beneficiaries whom the Department of Interior cannot locate....

Communities in Connecticut deserve more control over the federal recognition process, Representative Rob Simmons (R-Connecticut) told a House committee on Wednesday....

"Last Tuesday, the [Federal District] Court held that "Secretary Norton ... can now rightfully take (her) place alongside former Secretary Babbit ......

American taxpayers will be responsible for billions of dollars in liability owed to private nuclear reactor owners, a federal appeals court ruled on Wednesday....

A federal judge dealt the final blow to supporters of expanded gaming in Nebraska by refusing to hear a challenge in time for the initiative to be placed on the upcoming November ballot....

Montana Governor Judy Martz (R) is known for making outlandish statements about education, politics, Democrats and sacred sites....

A Connecticut group claiming to be a sovereign tribe is challenging building fines and citations issued by a local city....

Tribal casinos in Connecticut have attracted immigrants who don't speak English and have forced schools to hire bilingual education workers, according to failed Congressional candidate Jeff Benedict....

With millions in dollars at stake, Arizona racetracks are in an all-out war against the state's tribes....

The Lakahamen Band of the Sto:Lo First Nation of British Columbia, Canada, is trying to heal from the recent discovery of a child's body in a shallow grave....

A 17-year-old member of the Tohono O'odham Nation of Arizona is the top ranked student in his senior class....

The Arizona Board of Education is withholding more than $30,000 per month from schools on on the Tohono O'odham Reservation....

The Seneca-Cayuga Tribe of Oklahoma will use a $750,000 grant from the Department of Housing and Urban Development to open a fire department....

The Senate Committee on Indian Affairs on Wednesday approved without objection a bill to distribute a $138 million trust fund to members of the Western Shoshone Nation....

Opponents of a telescope project on a sacred mountain in Arizona held a protest on Wednesday....

Every day, thousands of Mexican nationals attempt to enter the United States through the three-million acre Tohono O'odham Reservation in Arizona, risking capture and death....

Jerry Haney, recognized principal chief of the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma, plans to call in Bureau of Indian Affairs law enforcement to evict the tribe's current set of leaders....

The Senate Committee on Indian Affairs on Wednesday approved without objection a bill to change how land holdings belonging to members of the Five Civilized Nations are handled....

A major Department of Interior computer system "crashed" due to ongoing problems stemming from a court-ordered shutdown, Natural Gas Week reports....

"A problem-plagued trust designed to protect royalties for American Indians has become a high-profile example of inexcusable government mismanagement. And the Interior Department's failure to make an adequate effort to remedy the problems in the last two presidential administrations adds insult to injury....

"On Tuesday, [U.S....

"A federal judge last week rightfully criticized the Interior Secretary Gale Norton for failing to fix a shameful system that has deprived Native Americans of billions of dollars....

President Bush told members of a joint House-Senate conference committee that he wants an energy policy bill that allows drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge....

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Secretary of Interior Gale Norton will never be able to fix the broken Indian trust fund, two former government officials who left their posts amid high-level pressure told Congress on Tuesday....

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Phil Hogen goes before the Senate today for his confirmation hearing as chief regulator of the $12.7 billion Indian gaming industry....

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American Indians and Alaska Natives suffer from the highest poverty rates in the nation, the Census Bureau reported on Tuesday....

The Sioux Falls Argus Leader in an editorial today throws its support behind a bill to use federal funds for reservation nursing homes....

Supporters of expanded gaming in Nebraska filed a federal lawsuit on Monday to get their voter initiative back on the November ballot....

A bill to sell a federal site to the Mormon Church is stalled in the Senate....

The University of Minnesota regents plan to vote on the school's participation in a controversial telescope project located on sacred land in Arizona....

A book by a Smithsonian curator describes how federal bureaucrats were able to negotiate treaties with tribal leaders during the late 1800s....

The state of Nebraska claims the Omaha Tribe owes in $300,000 in tobacco-related taxes....

An Alaska Native corporation won't allow the Sitka Tribe to choose new lands because the request came too late....

The White Mountain Apache Tribe plans proscribed and pile burns on its Arizona reservation....

Tribal police on the Tohono O'odham Nation in Arizona will seize more than 100,000 pounds of illicit drugs this year, about 300 pounds a day, The Washington Times reports....

A unique provision in gaming compacts in Washington state allows tribes to share in the casino wealth....

A Nebraska state judge fined five activists $100 for drinking beer in public as a protest against liquor sales to Native Americans....

The Department of Interior wants to mail what it claims are historical accountings to Indian beneficiaries....

Federal recognition must be the most important Indian policy issue, the way politicians and the media in Connecticut see it....

A massive water rights bill settling outstanding tribal claims in Arizona has been introduced in the Senate....

Navajo Nation voters are questioning the presidential ticket of Joe Shirley and Frank Dayish....

Thousands of otherwise healthy salmon have been reported dying in the Klamath River Basin in California-Oregon....

The House Resources Committee will hear testimony on three Indian policy bills....

The general council of the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma will meet tomorrow to move forward with plans to suspend Jerry Haney as the tribe's principal chief....

The Indian Enron: "If the theft of billions of dollars from some of the nation's poorest citizens isn't enough to galvanize American taxpayers into action, guarding their own pocketbooks should be....

Deputy Interior Secretary Steven Griles continued to meet with former clients from the mining industry despite signing recusals barring his involvement, The Washington Post reports today....

"The recent decision to hold Department of Interior Secretary Gale Norton in contempt of court for failing to solve her department's mismanagement of Indian trust funds does not go far enough....

A non-enforceable moratorium on new construction has non-Indian residents on the Tulalip Reservation in Washington worried....

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Opponents of a Connecticut tribe suffered a major defeat on the Senate floor on Monday with the rejection of a moratorium on federal recognition....

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A federal judge on Monday ordered the Bush administration to recognize the governing body of an Oklahoma tribe even as he expressed doubts that his decision will resolve a long-running political and legal dispute....

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The body of an Army officer was positively identified on Monday by military officials who failed to recover the Sioux tribal member despite an exhaustive search and an ongoing investigation into the circumstances of his death....

The House today will consider a bill to study the water system for the Santee Sioux Tribe of Nebraska....

President Bush hasn't yet decided to veto an energy bill that doesn't allow development in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, according to Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham....

The Department of Interior and environmentalists have reached an agreement that allows drilling in a Colorado monument to move forward....

Minnesota's candidates for governor disagree about the storage of nuclear waste in their state....

Sharon Clahchischilliage will make a campaign stop today in the Four Corners area of New Mexico....

Senator Jeff Bingaman (D-New Mexico) has introduced a bill to double the amount of money available to the Indian Reservation Road Program at the Bureau of Indian Affairs....

If gaming is expanded in Nebraska, it should be limited to the state's tribes, The Lincoln Journal Star argues in an editorial today....

"My sister-in-law is a language teacher at White Shield school, and she speaks fluently....

Three Connecticut towns agreed to join state attorney general Richard Blumenthal's challenge to the federal recognition of the historic Eastern Pequot Tribe....

A 15-year-old girl from the Alaska village of Chevak died in an four-wheeler accident on Saturday....

Armed federal agents seized 227 head of cattle from two Western Shoshone sisters in Nevada, who fear their horses may be next....

A North Carolina judge ordered an Eastern Cherokee man to turn over any revealing photos he may have of a Lumbee woman who was barred from the Miss America pageant over the debacle....

An Oneida Nation woman whose home has been threatened with demolition plans to avoid a tribal court trial for an alleged assault and violation of a court order....

The Tohono O'odham Nation's only hospital is being overwhelmed by Mexican immigrants seeking care, a tribal health administrator said....

Navajo Nation presidential candidate Joe Shirley's running mate is a lobbyist for a multinational corporation that wanted to start a mine near a Wisconsin reservation....

Connecticut's two Democratic senators were defeated on Monday in an attempt to halt the federal recognition process....

The Army has subpoenaed Internet e-mail accounts as part of a probe into the death of a soldier, The Middletown Times Herald-Record reports....

"It is a disgrace....

The Senate on Monday continued to debate a controversial measure to implement President Bush's "Healthy Forests" initiative....

A private-public partnership in Montana will receive a three-year grant from the Department of Education for a project aimed at lowering the high drop out rate of Indian students....

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The federal government's key witness on a $40 million failed Indian trust accounting system was not "credible," the federal judge overseeing the debacle said in his contempt of court opinion against the Bush administration....

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Federal judge delivers explosive contempt ruling against Bush administration, Bureau of Indian Affairs holds economic development summit, and federal appeals court affirms gaming rights of Arizona tribes....

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A federal judge last week said it was "absurd" for Secretary of Interior Gale Norton to claim she has fulfilled her trust responsibilities to four of the five named plaintiffs in the Indian trust fund lawsuit....

"US District Judge Royce Lamberth is right to be upset about foot-dragging at the Interior Department - but his anger may be directed at the wrong people....

Kansas will become the second state to put a statue of an Indian atop its statehouse but at considerably more cost and controversy....

Japan will no longer oppose a bowhead whaling quota for Alaska Native subsistence hunting, a United States official said....

Anchorage police chief Walt Monegan has replaced a top lieutenant and will institute a new communications program in response to the failure to find the home of an Alaska Native executive who was shot to death in August....

Preservation officials in Mexico fear a dam proposed by their own government will destroy at least 18 culturally and historically significant Mayan sites....

A woman who watched the Indian episode of Oprah Winfrey's Angel Network was inspired to help and organized a large donation of school supplies to the Northern Cheyenne Reservation in Montana....

"If you're into snoot, you gotta look like you just stepped out of the slick pages of Cowboys & Indians magazine (which really should be "Indians & Cowboys," by the way), if you're anybody at all....

Are the Freedmen, descendants of African slaves, members of the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma? The Associated Press tries to find out in a two-part series....

The Crow Tribe of Montana will hold a primary election October 19 to replace indicted ex-chairman Clifford Bird in Ground....

"I'm the tribal chairman of the Cheyenne River Sioux tribe....

The Gila River Tribe of Arizona will open a new $125 million hotel and casino resort next month....

Gaming has poured more than $1.2 billion into the pockets of tribes in Washington since 1996, The Seattle Times reports....

A tribal court sentenced Southern Ute tribal chairman Leonard C....

A genealogist being sued by the Yavapai-Prescott Tribe of Arizona failed to show up for a tribal court trial contesting her work last week....

Five Nez Perce bands who refused to be confined to a reservation in Idaho were nearing their goal -- the Canadian border -- in late September 1877 before they were caught....

A 28-year-old Alaska Native woman from the village of Chickaloon has been chosen as one of 30 young visionaries by the magazine Utne Reader. Shawna Larson was recognized for her work on the recent treaty to limit the use of persistent organic pollutants (POPs)....

Charles Ballard, the noted Quapaw professor and poet, died on Friday....

A federal appeals court on Friday affirmed the dismissal of a Michigan tribe's gaming suit....

"A federal judge has once again found a Cabinet official in contempt over failed efforts to account for money the government holds in trust for Indians....

"Can one man single-handedly right a century of wrongs? That seems to be the Quixotic obsession of US District Judge Royce Lamberth, who is overseeing what seems like an endless series of court actions involving the federal government's mishandling of Indian trust fund accounts dating back to the late 1880s....

"More than 300,000 Native Americans should be receiving about $500 million a year from the Department of the Interior in royalties collected on oil, gas, coal, timber and grazing operations on 11 million acres of Western lands held in trust for the Indians since 1887....

"A judge's decision to hold the interior secretary of the United States in contempt of court is a serious matter....

There was little praise for Secretary of Interior Gale Norton and Indian affairs aide Neal McCaleb in a court ruling holding them in contempt for misleading a federal judge about efforts to fix the broken Indian trust....

The school with the "Fighting Sioux" nickname is getting off easy even though it didn't respond to discrimination and harassment complaints made by Native students, The Sioux Falls Argus Leader says in an editorial....

Tom Slonaker, former Special Trustee for the Indian trust, will testify at a Senate hearing tomorrow about his ouster from the Department of Interior....
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