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Tribal leaders and attorneys representing 300,000 American Indian beneficiaries this week decried the Bush administration's attempt to kick a court investigator off the bitter trust fund dispute....

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Five Pacific Northwest tribes who claim a 9,000-year-old man as an ancestor should know by September whether they will get to rebury him....

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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....

Former President Bill Clinton will attend a ceremony today at the Mohegan Sun Casino in Connecticut....

The lawmakers handling a probe into the September 11 terrorist attacks accepted blame on Thursday for information leaked to the press....

An attorney for imprisoned American Indian activist Leonard Peltier was turned away by the Supreme Court on Thursday in her quest to hold government officials accountable for withholding information....

The Supreme Court on Thursday overturned decades of precedent and ruled that the execution of the mentally retarded was unconstitutional....

A woman who claims to be chief of an Alaska tribe can't keep a casino in New York open for now, a judge has ruled....

Representative Bob Schaffer (R-Colo.) didn't wear his Fightin' Whites gear to Thursday night's Congressional baseball game....

"The Fast Runner (Atanarjuat)," the all-Inuit film, continues to get positive reviews as it opens across the country....

Gaming regulators in Nevada cleared an Alaska Native corporation investment in a Las Vegas casino....

The Southern Ute Tribe of Colorado has extended a warm hand to residents forced to leave their homes due to a 53,000-acre fire....

The Bureau of Indian Affairs has projected it will finalize recognition decisions on two Pequot tribes by June 25....

The Miccosukee Tribe of Florida is running ads in several newspapers, criticizing local officials for questioning recent land buys....

The first Indian woman to become a doctor will be inducted into the American Medical Women's Association Hall of Fame....

A coalition of tribal and local governments on Thursday proposed that the state of Wisconsin buy 5,000 acres of land to prevent a huge mine near a reservation....

Three Oklahoma tribes and a gaming company didn't receive further guidance yesterday on their bid to keep operating a controversial casino machine....

The Blackfeet Nation of Montana on Thursday said reservation ranchers suffered $1.0 million in damages from this month's devastating snowstorm....

A state-recognized New York Tribe is promising to share profits from a bingo hall with a local town....

A police officer on the Fort Belknap was found dead in her home on Thursday....

The Japanese government says it won't object to indigenous subsistence whaling any longer....

A federal judge in New York dismissed one of the Seneca Nation's land claims....

A out of control fire which started on the White Mountain Apache Reservation in Arizona has grown to 85,000 acres....

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Already facing doubts in Indian Country, the joint federal-tribal task force on trust reform will confront a key issue in the upcoming weeks that could potentially derail the closely watched effort....

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A non-Indian couple who claims they were harassed by a tribal law enforcement officer has asked the Supreme Court to clear the way for an $8 million lawsuit....

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If the name of the federal magistrate who gave a reprieve to three Oklahoma tribes on a gaming dispute that heats up day by day sounds familiar, it should....

The Ponca Tribe and a labor union have put a chemical company on notice for alleged violations of state and federal environmental law....

A casino-rich tribe is actively lobbying Congress to support the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository in Nevada....

A Congressional committee investigating the September 11 terrorist attacks discussed messages intercepted by the National Security Agency that warned of some sort of action....

Creating and staffing the new Department of Homeland Security could cost upwards of $1 billion, according to Congressional estimates....

Wyoming's House representative missed a vote this week on a bill to sell federal land to the Mormon Church....

Bureau of Land Management officials met in Montana this week to discuss coalbed methane drilling in the Powder River Basin....

A tribal member who has been a Department of Justice official has joined a Washington, D.C., law firm, Judy Sarasohn of The Washington Post reports....

A Washington school board on Wednesday heard debate on removing the "Indians" nickname from a public school....

Incoming fifth-grade student Tiffany Sullivan recently took home a first place award at an Oklahoma pow-wow and arts festival....

Navajo / Isleta Pueblo golfer Notah Begay is playing in the Greater Hartford Open this week....

The Caddo Tribe of Oklahoma christened its own independent police force on Tuesday....

The Crow Tribe is trying to attract tourists who visit Montana for the anniversary of the Battle of the Little Bighorn....

A group calling itself the Muhheconnew National Confederacy is protesting the opening of a new state park in New York....

Lawmakers from Virginia are up in arms about a proposal to put an image of an American Indian on the reverse side of the nickel, John McCaslin reports in "Inside the Beltway." According to McCaslin, the U.S....

The federal magistrate overseeing the controversial Kennewick Man case expects to issue a ruling by Labor Day....

World War II hero and Cherokee tribal member Jack C....

Pojoaque Pueblo in New Mexico filed a lawsuit last month against the Department of Interior over a casino compact approved during the Clinton administration....

The Daily Oklahoman in an editorial today accuses Oklahoma tribes of threatening to turn the state into a casino mecca....

Three Oklahoma tribes challenging federal Indian gaming regulators have won the right to continue operating a controversial casino machine on a temporary basis....

Racism and fear are being cited as reasons why resident of Maine oppose a tribal casino....

Teen birth rates in Montana dropped during a four-year period starting in 1996 but the state's reservations didn't always follow....

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National Congress of American Indians President Tex Hall made an urgent request on Tuesday night to protect Indian trust records from potential destruction by convicted accounting firm Arthur Andersen....

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Executives of a gaming company with close ties to the $10 billion tribal casino industry moved Tuesday to counteract a growing legal and financial crisis that threatened its investors and major Indian Country clients....

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Two of Indian Country's strongest advocates expressed solidarity with Texas tribes on Tuesday but said there might be little they could do about legal battles that have shut down one casino and may close another....

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Secretary of Interior Gale Norton was met with resistance on Tuesday night from tribal leaders who criticized recent efforts to fix the broken Indian trust....

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Trading of Multimedia Games Inc (NASDAQ:MGAM) was heavy this morning as the company revised its earnings estimates due to an ongoing conflict with federal Indian gaming regulators....

US authorities forbid a Canadian chief from entering the country with his traditional eagle feather warbonnet....

A Connecticut man was sentenced on Tuesday for stealing more than $900,000 from the Mohegan Tribe's casino....

A gubernatorial candidate in Nebraska signed a petition to expand gaming in the state but stopped short of saying he would vote for the measure if it appears on the November ballot....

An internal Environmental Protection Agency document claims that toxic waste in waters is actually good for fish, The Washington Times reports today....

President Bush on Tuesday offered draft legislation to implement the Department of Homeland Security....

A bill to overhaul the Army Corps of Engineers was endorsed on Tuesday by the military commander of the troubled agency and the Senate's top Democrat....

The House on Tuesday approved a bill to award Congressional medals to Code Talkers who served in two world wars....

The Grindstone Creek Powwow in upstate New York has been canceled for lack of vendor interest....

Visitors can tour a 2,000-year-old site in Montana where thousands of buffalo were killed by Native hunters....

Secretary of State Colin Powell will seek a special meeting of the International Whaling Commission to ensure Alaska Native subsistence hunting....

A California woman was arrested on Tuesday during a protest against two public school mascots....

Oklahoma Indian students are taking advantage of a summer program to work on their arts and crafts skills....

Stories among tribes in the Pacific Northwest are being used to confirm catastrophic events such as earthquakes and tsunamis....

The Farmington Daily-Times in an editorial today criticizes those who deny a gang problem exists on the Navajo Nation in New Mexico....

Four tribes in Kansas filed objections to proposals to redraw four U.S. House districts....

Secretary of Interior Gale Norton made good on her promise to a North Dakota senator and visited the United Tribes Technical College yesterday....

Three Oklahoma tribes on Tuesday joined in a lawsuit to prevent the National Indian Gaming Commission from enforcing a decision on a controversial casino machine....

The joint federal-tribal trust reform task force updated Indian Country on Tuesday at the National Congress of American Indians....

The National Museum of the American Indian in Manhattan is running a photo exhibit that documents the Mohawk construction workers who helped erect major buildings in New York City....

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Senior Bush administration officials accused a judicial investigator of bias in a lengthy court filing aimed at ousting the Indian trust reform monitor from his oversight role at the Department of Interior....

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The House on Monday approved legislation to sell more than 900 acres of federal land to a religious group over objections that the deal would open the door to tribes claiming sacred sites....

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Stock price of Multimedia Games Inc....

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Tribal leaders today voiced skepticism about recent efforts to correct mismanagement of Indian trust funds and said alternatives endorsed by a task force presented few avenues for meaningful change....

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The stock of a casino game company with close ties to the $10 billion Indian gaming industry fell several percentage points yesterday despite optimism over new federal rules seen as favorable to tribes....

The Nez Perce Tribe is considering funding a local detention center, a local official said....

First Nations throughout Canada are united in opposition to proposed changes to federal Indian policy....

President Bush on Monday called for minority home ownership to increase by the end of the decade....

Religious Freedom The Court struck down an Ohio law which forbid door-to-door canvassing without a permit....

Weyerhaeuser Corporation is promising to meet with the Penticton First Nation of British Columbia in response to a blockade that has halted logging around a mountain....

The National Park Service has received what is believed to be a record number of public comments about a proposal to ban snowmobiles in two national parks....

"Although some mascots are embarrassing caricatures, they shouldn't be taken so seriously as to cause offense....

A team of archaeologists has cleaned up a cave that shows ancient Ohlone art....

The federal government is being asked to abandon its Mexican border policies in response to a spate of deaths of migrants who enter the Tohono O'odham Reservation in Arizona....

The Shoalwater Tribe of Washington is still seeking answers on a high rate of infant mortality the reservation endured for a decade....

A Michigan tribe on Monday welcomed the Supreme Court's refused to hear its victory on a casino licensing case....

"While traveling the back roads in northern Minnesota this past week, I stopped at a local filling station and convenience store. With purchases made and gas filled, I turned to leave when a poster of a woman posing in a white wedding gown caught my eye....

The mid-year session of the National Congress of American Indians is underway in Bismarck, North Dakota....

Assistant Secretary Neal McCaleb has affirmed the traditional three-chief government of the St....

Attorneys for Secretary of Interior Gale Norton have asked a federal judge to revoke the appointment of court monitor Joseph S....

The following documents of note were published in today's Federal Register....

Voters on the Burnt Church Reserve in New Brunswick went to the polls this week to choose a new chief and council....

Two Idaho tribes are seeing a legal challenge from state lawmakers and officials over a ballot initiative to legalize gaming in Indian Country....

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On the eve of her appearance at a tribal convention, attorneys for Secretary of Interior Gale Norton accused the Indian trust fund monitor of overstepping his boundaries and asked a federal judge to dismiss him. "It is with great reluctance that the Interior defendants request that this court revoke the appointment of Joseph S....

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Indian gaming rules and regulations talk of the town, judge halts work at burial site in response to tribal complaints, education and Indian trust budgets targeted, and federal recognition reforms considered....

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A joint federal-tribal task force on trust reform was greeted with skepticism last week by listeners of a radio program who questioned whether the Department of Interior can be trusted to correct its historical mismanagement of Indian funds....

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Several Oklahoma tribes this weekend defied a federal order to shut down a controversial casino game whose future could rest on judicial interpretation of new regulations designed to limit court battles....

A group of volunteers has undertaken an archaeological project aimed at mapping the Fetterman Fight, a December 21, 1866 battle in which Sioux, Cheyenne and Arapaho warriors defeated Army forces....

"Get this: I recently received a book, entitled "The Conquering Indian," sent to me by a certain reader who believes that I'm on the road to eternal damnation simply because I'm not a Christian, and because I choose to follow my Native beliefs....

In an editorial today, The Sioux Falls Argus Leader criticizes the state of South Dakota for suggesting that Yankton Sioux tribal members planted human remains at a work site near the Missouri River....

"Wake up, southeastern Connecticut....

fter covering a late-night community meeting where the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa tribal council and members were at odds, I was driving home and I wondered how many times I had witnessed that same scene....

"It is horrific to know that the Department of the Interior can do outrageous things with such impunity....

Connecticut Governor John Rowland (R) is being accused of secretly wanting to open the state's third tribally-owned casino....

An Alaska man who was convicted of removing the skull of an Alaska Native child from a grave site, died last month after shooting himself in the head, authorities said....

Doctors in Montana are part of a multi-state study on fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS)....

Ranchers on the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana are trying to recover from last week's snowstorm that crippled power lines and caused loss of cattle....

The Muscogee-Creek Nation of Oklahoma recently finished remodeling work on a home for a California Fixico, 100-year-old tribal member....

The Athabascan Languages Conference is being held at the University of Alaska at Fairbanks this week....

Alaska Native communities can take 75 bowhead whales this year before their hunting quota runs out....

Tex Hall has worn a lot of hats, no pun intended, in recent years. Teacher, rancher, and tribal leader....

The Copper River Native Sobriety Celebration was held during the Memorial Day weekend late last month, an event organized to combat alcoholism among Alaska Natives....

A study of 86 Aboriginal patients who developed diabetes at a young age has raised alarm for health researchers....

Oklahoma's tribes are being asked to prove their casinos are operating on Indian land, The Daily Oklahoman reports today....

I have one issue on which I would like to set the record straight....

Windtalkers, the MGM movie which features the Navajo Code Talkers who served during World War II, placed a distant third at the box office this weekend....
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