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The federal judge overseeing the long-running Oneida land claim accused tribes of using "scare tactics" to delay resolution of a bitter dispute that has fractured inter-tribal relations....

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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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Native American teenagers continue to use illicit drugs at record rates, according to statistics released on Thursday....

California tribes are upset with the way the state will collect its share of casino revenues....

The State Department on Thursday said the spraying of coca crops in Colombia would not harm people or the environment....

On a straight party line vote, a Senate panel on Thursday rejected one of President Bush's judicial picks....

The fifth annual Native American Music Awards, or NAMMYs, will be held tomorrow in Wisconsin....

A fire on the Pauingassi First Nation in Manitoba, Canada, destroyed the reserve's school and community center....

The state of Wisconsin is in the process of determining the value of land and mineral rights for a proposed mine near the Mole Lake Reservation....

"I can already hear what some Winnipeggers would say if aboriginal mayoralty candidate Chris Henderson, 30, got elected this fall: "Oh great....

Oklahoma Governor Frank Keating has named a tribal member to the Oklahoma Arts Council....

The United Tribes Intertribal Council held its sixth annual summit at the United Tribes Technical College in North Dakota....

Two small Arizona tribes saw income of tribal members rise over the past decade, thanks to gaming....

Senator Jeff Bingaman today stepped in to ensure that fry bread can be served at a two-day pow wow on the National Mall in Washington, DC next weekend....

A woman from the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina is headed to federal court to seek participation in the Miss America pageant....

Six Native elders from Manitoba, Canada, held a healing ceremony at an urban Native center in Winnipeg....

A federal judge on Thursday refused to intervene in a dispute over elections for the Catawba Tribe of South Carolina....

New York Governor George Pataki (R) and the Oneida Nation of New York are praising a ruling that dismisses a new round of land claim lawsuits....

The Tuntutuliak Tribe of Alaska recently forbade state troopers from enforcing state law in the village of Tuntutuliak....

Anti-gambling sentiments in New England states is strong and may be linked to the region's Puritan roots....

Gregg Bourland, longtime chairman of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe of South Dakota, failed to advance in the tribe's recent primary election....

"A federal judge has decided that scientists can continue picking over the bones of the Native man who was disinterred six years ago near Kennewick, Washington, and is popularly called "Kennewick Man." It took U.S....

An Oklahoma lawmaker wants to draft a bill requiring that Oklahoma tribal members have at least 50 percent Indian blood, The Shawnee News-Star reports today....

The Notorious BIG paid members of a Los Angeles street gang to shoot rival rap star Tupac Shakur, according to a Los Angeles Times investigation into the unsolved September 7, 1996, murder....

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It's been months since the Bush administration's contempt trial wrapped up that it might be hard for some to remember what the fuss is all about....

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Overcrowded and underfunded, Indian Country jails saw more prisoners than ever last year, according to a recent federal report....

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Every year, Washingtonian magazine asks "key" Capitol Hill staff members to rate their bosses....

Members of the Lummi Nation of Washington brought their healing pole to Connecticut as part of a cross-country journey to mark the September 11 terrorist attacks....

The Aboriginal Centre of Winnipeg is holding a pipe ceremony, feast and pow-wow to help the public heal from the recent murder of an 11-year-old boy....

Secretary of State Colin Powell was interrupted by protesters during his speech on the final day of the United Nations World Summit on Sustainable Development....

Attorney General John Ashcroft plans to appoint two domestic violence critics to an advisory committee that oversees domestic violence, The Washington Post reports....

A group hoping to expand gaming in Nebraska has raised more than $400,000, The Lincoln Journal Star reports....

A $250,000 from the National Science Foundation will help Northern Arizona University house visiting scientists in Navajo hogans....

The mayor of an Indiana city plans to meet with the Miami Nation of Oklahoma to discuss a possible casino....

At least 17 members of the Southern Ute Tribe of Colorado are running for three seats on the tribal council....

The St.Croix Tribe of Wisconsin is helping a local community recover from a Labor Day tornado....

Secretary of Interior Gale Norton and Secretary of Agriculture Ann Veneman are taking their "Healty Forest Initiative" to Congress....

Secretary of Interior Gale Norton is being warned not to take land into trust for the Seneca Nation of New York....

A new report says removing four dams on the Snake River in eastern Washington won't have a major impact....

President Bush should only go to war with Iraq if three conditions are met, said Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell (R-Colo.), the only Native American in the U.S....

A California tribe and two environmental groups are suing the Department of Interior to prevent a transfer of water....

Two Canadian police officers accused of beating a Native man in June are back on duty in Toronto, Ontario....

An anonymous letter uncovered in a Native protest case suggests Canadian police never intended to negotiate with activists who were occupying a park in Ontario....

A Montana business owner pleaded guilty on Tuesday to bribing Bureau of Indian Affairs employees....

A federal appeals court reinstated a tribal lawsuit challenging the $7.8 billion Everglades cleanup....

The Jena Choctaw Tribe of Louisiana is working with Gov....

Joni Ramos was elected the first female president of the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Tribe of Arizona....

Police are investigating the death of a member of the Spokane Tribe of Washington....

The Department of Interior is "incapable" of making a fair decision on the remains of a 9,000-year-old Native man, The Seattle Times writes in an editorial today....

"Last Friday, Judge John Jelderks of U.S....

A July 2002 report from the Department of Justice questions how Picuris Pueblo in New Mexico has spent a $728,125 federal police grant....

A North Carolina state judge on Wednesday restored the state's beauty crown to a member of the Lumbee Tribe....

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President Bush on Tuesday nominated a tribal member to oversee regulation of the $12.7 billion Indian gaming industry, ending months of speculation on the future of a federal agency that has come under fire in recent years....

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The world's largest coal conglomerate is fighting accusations that it participated in "suppressing and concealing" of information in a $600 million breach of trust dispute before the U.S....

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"They are not as scary as they might be," Kevin Gover, a former Interior official, says....

National Indian Gaming Commission The Department of Interior announces the names of the associate commissioners of the National Indian Gaming Commission....

The tribes on the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming are working with local irrigation districts on water issues....

Andrew Cuomo, former head of the Department of Housing and Labor during the Clinton administration, dropped out of the running for governor of New York on Tuesday....

The Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation of Connecticut has cut five hotel management jobs....

The Maine Casino Task Force began its work on Tuesday but is already behind schedule....

"[I]f the English can uncover a Welshman 500 years dead and trace through DNA, his surviving blood line to a nearby village, then [Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation Chairman] Kenny Reels can hold his head high, knowing the science that liberates or convicts in this country, can in his case, lift the ultimate shadow of his parentage and settle for all time, Mr....

The Denver Police Department on Tuesday made public its surveillance files, drawing hundreds of interested citizens....

A federal judge on Tuesday dismissed the U.S....

The 56th annual Navajo Nation Fair begins tomorrow in Window Rock, Arizona, the tribal capital....

A North Carolina state judge heard testimony on Tuesday in the case of a Lumbee woman who wants to compete in the Miss America pageant....

Red Cliff Ojibwe chairman Ray DePerry is disappointed that the Department of Justice is dropping further investigation into embezzlement of tribal funds....

The Bureau of Indian Affairs has approved a $107,000 grant to help Alaska Natives fight for their whaling rights....

The Northern Arizona University has received a $4.5 million grant to study cancer rates in Native Americans....

Residents of an Alaska Native village put out out a fire last week but not before it destroyed the village power plant....

An Oklahoma House committee discussed Indian casinos on Tuesday....

After years of being ignored, tribes and Indian advocates are finally getting the message through that sacred sites need to be protected....

Doctor Charles Grim, the interim director of the Indian Health Service, says the agency will continue to focus on consultation with tribes and delivery of services....

Scientists are preparing a plan to study the remains of a 9,000-year-old Native man after their recent court victory....

The Supreme Court has scheduled oral arguments for three Alaska Native companies seeking to protect their wireless telecommunications investment....

The Minnesota Green Party's endorsed candidate for governor candidate has renounced endorsed U.S....

The Navajo Nation should take its time before signing off on a plan to distribute a tribal tax, The Farmington Daily-Times urges in an editorial today....

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A coalition of Pacific Northwest tribes and the federal government suffered a major setback last week in the long-running battle over the remains of a 9,000-year-old Native man....

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Idaho tribes score yet another victory in court, Indian Country awaits ruling on trust fund contempt, brutal murder shocks urban Natives in Canada, and tribal members run for Congress....

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The Ancient One was doomed from the start....

Teachers on First Nations reserves in Canada are paid thousands of dollars less than their counterparts....

Applications for graduate programs at the University of Arizona jumped nearly 20 percent this year....

A new member has joined the highest court of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma....

A delegation from the Sokaogon Ojibwe Tribe of Wisconsin met with the company that wants to build a mine near its reservation....

Secretary of Interior Gale Norton will announce the names of new National Indian Gaming Commission members, a spokesperson said....

An Alaska Native village corporation has sold 4,247 acres of land to the federal government....

The Maine Casino Task Force is scheduled to start work today on a study of gaming in the state....

Only three people are known to speak the Tututni language....

Indian gaming has failed, The Wall Street Journal writes in another editorial on the subject....

Federal policies contributed to the abandonment of farms on the Crow Reservation, a study of elder history has found....

It's not American Idol, the popular television show that has made pop stars out of unknowns, but the Four Directions Talent Search is doing its part, organizers say....

Mud is frequently hurled in political campaigns, but this time it's old sewage being thrown in front of Ed McGaa, a candidate for U.S....

A critical piece of the Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site in Colorado is in limbo....

The Bois Forte Ojibwe Tribe of Minnesota is administering a project to create an Internet database of wild rice....

A Canadian man accused of killing an 11-year-old boy is being held in custody until October 3....

"Arrogant Republican legislators who never pass up a chance to bedevil the state's five Indian tribes have lost another court battle....

Tribal and county officials in Washington are wondering what to do about a compost dump operating on individual Indian land....

Yaqui children in Arizona no longer have anyone to teach them their language, thanks to the No Child Left Behind Act....

The Spokane Tribe of Washington wrapped up its annual Labor Day pow-wow today....

The Indian rug auction at the 15th annual Totah Festival in New Mexico brought in more than $71,900....

A New Mexico state judge has ruled there is enough evidence against a Navajo medicine man accused of rape to go to trial....

Due to drought, business is down for a sod farm that leases land from the Navajo Agriculture Products Industry, the agribusiness of the Navajo Nation....

The Shawnee County Allied Tribes Inter-Tribal Pow-wow was held over the weekend in Kansas....

"Nicknames among Indian people are common....

Native voters in South Dakota are being heavily courted by Democrats for the upcoming November elections....

"I was retained by Kenneth M....

Alaska Native children are disproportionately represented in the foster care system in Alaska, according to state and national statistics....

A forum was held on Friday for the Navajo Nation presidential candidates....

Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.), former chairman of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee, has missed 10 percent of votes since 1995....

The Billings Gazette continues its series on the Nez Perce War of 1877....

The largest fire in Arizona history burnt 300,000 acres of the Fort Apache Reservation, home to the White Mountain Apache Tribe....

The state of Kansas is appealing a court decision to halt taxes against the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska....

The Denver Police Department is making public records it kept on local activists....

Two hate-related notes were left at the Alaska Native Heritage Center in Anchorage last Thursday....
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