Wednesday, January 15, 2003

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For the second year in a row, a conservation group has cited a tribe's proposed development project as a threat to a national park in North Carolina....

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With the bicentennial commemoration of the Lewis and Clark expedition underway, there's one woman who hasn't been talked about recently, according to a Chippewa artist who designed a teepee for this week's kick-off event in Charlottesville, Virginia....

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A federal judge late last month rejected an Arizona tribe's attempt to recover legal fees that it said arose out of the United States' trust obligations....


"I am responding to Al Knight's column in which he attempts to sufficiently analyze the complex situation of the Indian trust accounts, utilizing a small amount of paragraphs and all the while finding sarcastic humor in "how the government tricked Indian tribes, violated treaties and continues to break its promises." In his analysis of the figures involved in the claims of hundreds of thousands of American Indians, he declares that "somebody is exaggerating," insinuating that lawyers are in sole charge of deciphering the total monetary and land losses that these families have suffered at the hands of the United States government ever since the tragic days of the Homestead Act....


A casino game company is suing the Mescalero Apache Tribe of New Mexico for the return of casino game machines and for money damages....


The Cherokee Nation tribal council approved a bill 13-0, with one abstention, to set aside 25 percent of gaming revenue for tribal programs....


"It appears that Xcel Energy and our legislators are once again in a position to either honor or discard promises made to First Nation people....


The Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation of Connecticut is investing in several projects aimed at revitalizing downtown Norwich....


Four bills are being pushed in the Nebraska Legislature in hopes of expanding gaming in the state....


Senator Pete Domenici (R-New Mexico), the incoming chairman of the Senate Energy Committee, is working with the White House to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to development by including the controversial proposal in a budget reconciliation bill, The Wall Street Journal reports....


The Minnesota Indian Affairs Council has fallen victim to budget cuts affecting the entire state government....


Officials in South Dakota have applied for a federal grant to preserve an Indian site that is three to five hundred years old....


A town in New York is asking for more money from the Oneida Nation, The Syracuse Post-Standard reports....


Republicans and Democrats have not come to an agreement on how to organize the Senate, leaving the chamber in control of the Democrats until the dispute is resolved....


Washington state educators are reviewing a pilot project that would give tribes the ability to certify who can teach their languages....


The Northern Arapaho Tribe of Wyoming is trying to convince Senator Mike Enzi (R) not to introduce an appropriations rider that would overturn its recent court victory....


James Laducer, a member of the Turtle Mountain Ojibwe Tribe of North Dakota, owns an information technology company but he says achieving success was not easy....


A Nebraska state lawmaker introduced a bill on Tuesday to ban the sale of liquor in a town near a Sioux reservation....


Tribal, state and federal officials took part in talks on Tuesday to address complicated questions of jurisdiction in Indian Country....


Representatives of dozens of tribes are taking part in the opening events for the bicentennial commemoration of the Lewis and Clark expedition....


Joe Shirley was sworn in as the president of the Navajo Nation, the largest tribe in the country, on Tuesday....


An Oklahoma lawmaker who once called for blood quantum legislation to weed out the "wannabe" Indians is in a new flap over a Confederate flag....


Environmentalists and government attorneys have come to an agreement that spares Secretary of Interior Gale Norton of another contempt citation, The Bonita Daily-Times reports....


Members of the Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas completed their march for sovereignty on Tuesday....