Thursday, October 17, 2002

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Fearing a potential disaster at the hands of the Supreme Court, tribes across the country are supporting the Navajo Nation's $600 million breach of trust case....

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File this one under: Only in Alaska....

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Legislative efforts to fix the broken Indian trust have effectively been shelved for the year as Congress prepares to leave town for the upcoming election....


Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura signed an executive order on Wednesday to reaffirm the state's relationship with Indian nations....


Both chambers of Congress agreed on Wednesday to return to session after the elections in order to pass the federal government's appropriations bills....


The Supreme Court on Wednesday heard oral arguments in a jury bias case where Texas prosecutors eliminated African-Americans from serving on a death penalty trial....


Residents of the Connecticut city of Bridgeport "professed unwavering support" for a tribal casino, according to The New London Day....


A giant bird with a large wing-span has been spotted by residents of southwest Alaska villages....


Hopi and Zuni tribal members held a protest on Monday against a plan to develop a mine near a sacred New Mexico lake....


A Navajo Nation council delegate faces extradition to the state of New Mexico for alleged violation of state livestock laws....


An Arizona man faces federal and tribal charges stemming from a head-on collision that killed two on the Navajo Reservation....


Diabetics on Minnesota's White Earth Reservation are connecting to traditional foods thanks to an ambitious "cultural restoration" program....


Tribes on the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming are experiencing a leadership shakeup....


Students at the Pierre Indian Learning Center in South Dakota recently spent a day learning about the environment and its ties to tribal culture....


The Republican Party has raised more than $100 million in soft and hard money campaign contributions....


A public hearing was held on Wednesday for a proposed Alaska Native cultural and visitors center in Fairbanks....


The Nebraska Minority Health Conference featured a keynote address by an Indian health leader....


Minnesota's Green Party had endorsed Ed McGaa, a tribal member, as its candidate for U.S....


A member of the Eastern Band of Cherokees averted contempt of court charges this week by turning over revealing photos of a North Carolina beauty queen....


A young resident of an Athabaskan village in Alaska died of cancer on Tuesday night....


"IMAGINE SITTING IN your big, beautiful house....


The saga over the "bada bing bada boom" Indian casino / gubernatorial ad continues in Maine with Italian and other leaders calling for television stations to ban the offending commercial....


Russell Turcotte, a member of the Turtle Mountain Ojibwe Tribe of North Dakota, has been missing since July....


Investigators in South Dakota continue to examine voter registration and absentee ballots from the state's reservations....


The drama over Colorado's Columbus Day is not over....


Rick West is the director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian, overseeing a space on the Washington, D.C., mall that will house the nation's premiere collection of Indian culture....

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