Tuesday, October 22, 2002

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The state of Montana has asked the Supreme Court to overturn a ruling that freed Indian-owned businesses from state taxation....

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The Congressional committees with jurisdiction over tribal affairs took up dozens of bills and issues this year affecting Indian Country....

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A federal court has opened an investigation that could bring additional contempt charges against Assistant Secretary Neal McCaleb....


South Dakota's Senate and House race have drawn attention long before the current controversy over Indian voter fraud....


The Supreme Court on Monday turned down an appeal of the execution of a 17-year-old convicted of murder....


The Salt River Pima-Maricopa Tribe of Arizona has donated $150,000 to the American Red Cross....


Nineteen members of the Southern Ute Tribe of Colorado are vying for four seats on the tribal council....


The San Francisco Chronicle profiles Adam Nordwall, a Red Lake Ojibwe man known for his unique brand of Indian activism....


A non-profit group in Connecticut is questioning the way the Mohegan Tribe is conducting its aquaculture business....


"From Navajo Land to Oklahoma: Dine Textile Art" will be on display at the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History at the University of Oklahoma in Norman The exhibit features some of the "finest examples of Navajo weavings," according to The Daily Oklahoman....


Federal authorities are planning to charge a member of the Navajo Nation with vehicular manslaughter for an accident that occurred on the reservation, The Farmington Daily-Times reports....


A teacher's aide at school in Manokotak, Alaska, was found dead on a village trail....


"Lateman Fox, my relative, drew a line last week that said enough is enough....


Nearly 200 Indian youth took part in the first Eight Northern Indian Pueblos Youth Summit last week....


Members of a rebel group attacked an Indian village in Colombia on Sunday....


It used to be that the only business on reservations was the Bureau of Indian Affairs....


ndian voters will determine which party controls the Senate, according to Frank LaMere, a National Democratic Committee official....


CBC-TV of Canada is broadcasting a series about a Metis man who was hanged for treason after leading a rebellion in 1885....


Brian Wallace appears to have won re-election as chairman of the Washoe Band of California and Nevada....


The state of Montana has dropped its attempt to tax a tribally-owned business....


A member of the Oneida Nation who challenged the tribe's policies will have her trailer home torn down as part a plea agreement in tribal court....


The United States made a secret deal with Denmark in the 1950s that forced the relocation of members of the Inughuit Tribe of Greenland....


Preliminary results of a study of South Dakota's justice system confirm that Native Americans face disparate treatment, The Sioux Falls Argus Leader reports....


A federal magistrate in Oregon today agreed to let four Pacific Northwest tribes appeal his decision to turn Kennewick Man over to scientists....


A business owner on the Colorado River Indian Reservation in Arizona claims the tribe retaliated against her when she complained....