Monday, October 21, 2002

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The Bush administration is set to decide whether an Oklahoma tribe has the right to open a casino on land hundreds of miles away from its current home....

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Supreme Court decisions target of tribal campaign, trust reform legislation delayed in Congress, Indian voter registrations examine in South Dakota, and tribal casino ad draws complaints....

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An independent review of Indian trust decisions attempts to counter Bush administration claims of a flood of "costly" litigation over mismanagement of Indian assets....


Some members of the Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California plan to protest the Nevada Day Parade on Saturday....


"There are few opportunities to see your country through the eyes of a foreigner....


"We Indians rely on many signs, provided to us by nature, to let us know when a bad winter is coming....


Voters of the Eastern Shoshone Tribe of Wyoming have elected an entirely new council....


Navajo Nation presidential candidate Joe Shirley doesn't want to debate incumbent President Kelsey Begaye....


A proposal to raise student fees at Haskell Indian Nations University in Kansas originated with students, The Lawrence Journal-World reports....


The Alaska Native Language Center was founded by the state Legislature in 1972 to document and cultivate Alaska's 20 Native language....


Alaska Natives are split mostly along urban-rural lines over the candidates for governor of Alaska....


The acting chairman of the Crow Tribe of Montana received the second highest number of votes in a primary held on Saturday....


Jack Jackson Junior, a Democrat running for the Arizona State Legislature, is expected to win his race, the Associated Press reports....


Republicans have given up on trying to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling, according to a leading Senate proponent....


"I am dismayed with the Oct....


Bemidji State University of Minnesota is building a $2.6 million American Indian Resource Center....


The Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma has registered more than 9,000 voters....


A spokesperson for the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma denies allegations that tribal employees were pressured to make campaign contributions....


The majority of money in a campaign fund created by Representative J.D.Hayworth (R-Arizona) comes from tribes or tribal lobbyists, a review by The Arizona Republic has found....


Nearly 5,000 Alaska Natives are expected to turn out for the 2002 Alaska Federation in Anchorage this week....


A weekend search for a missing members of North Dakota's Turtle Mountain Ojibwe Tribe turned up no leads....


Authorities in California will charge the chairman of the Viejas Band of Kumeyaay Indians and his nephew with murder and attmpted, according to news accounts....


Nothing has come out of nine months of talks about trust reform with tribal leaders, a Department of Interior official said....


The Utah official in charge of student testing quit during a meeting with Indian education leaders....