Wednesday, October 23, 2002

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Facing a court investigation into his role as head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Assistant Secretary Neal McCaleb on Tuesday promised to recover 10 months worth of e-mails that were erased in violation of his own policies....

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If you're a tribal leader, lobbyist or lover, you probably heard those words uttered by a politico near you....

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A federal judge has cleared the way for a tribal challenge to his decision to hand over the remains of a 9,000-year-old man to scientists....


Roger Moe is considered one of the strongest supporters of Indian gaming in Minnesota....


State health officials in Alaska have confirmed an outbreak of salmonella in the Inupiat village of Elim....


A 17-year-old Minnesota resident pleaded guilty to second-degree murder for a death on the Red Lake Ojibwe Reservation....


A federal judge sentenced a child care worker on the Fort Belknap Reservation of Montana to 14 years in prison for sexual abuse....


A jury in Oklahoma convicted a 16-year-old high school student of taking part in the rape of an American Indian girl....


South Dakota has made "little progress" resolving issues of tribal sovereignty, The Sioux Falls Argus Leader says in an editorial today....


The three candidates for governor of Oklahoma have not ruled out eliminating the tribal monopoly on Class II gaming, The Daily Oklahoman reports....


The story of a Navajo girls champion basketball team in New Mexico is the subject of competing film productions and competing interests....


Author and failed congressional candidate Jeff Benedict will head a new anti-casino group in Connecticut....


A cow was spotted in Yellowstone National Park but got away before anyone could haze it, test it for a deadly cattle disease and slaughter it....


"Rather than characterize the record of the now-departed Congress, let me begin by reporting what the people's representatives and senators did and did not do on their final day in session....


A bill near approval in a joint House-Senate committee exempts the Department of Defense from a law protecting eagles, The Washington Post reports....


An Indian running organization is looking for Native American runners to participate in a national championship race....


Senator Max Baucus (D-Montana) has an opponent again....


Tribal leaders in southwest Oklahoma have asked Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy Thompson to investigate local problems with the Indian Health Service....


Could a new golf course help Haskell Indian Nations University of Kansas overcome a tight budget? Developer J.B....


The Yurok Tribe of California filed suit in federal court on Tuesday to increase water for dying fish....


Gordon Smith has resigned as chairman of the Makah Nation of Washington in order to work for the Bureau of Indian Affairs as a trust officer, The Peninsula Daily News reports....


The recently recognized Cowlitz Tribe of Washington is working on a memorandum of understanding with a local county....


"A corrupt home-plate umpire can easily decide the outcome of any baseball game....


The Oklahoma lawmaker who wanted to introduce a blood quantum bill to get rid of "wannabees" argues against a state lottery in an opinion piece in The Daily Oklahoman....


"I'm an American Indian....


An Oneida woman says she has nowhere to live now that her tribe demolished her trailer home on the Oneida Reservation in New York....


The Seneca-Cayuga Tribe of Oklahoma has laid off 162 employees of its casino....


There was "administrative opposition" to an upgrade of all computer desktop systems at the Department of Interior, a top official said....


The tribes appealing the Kennewick Man case want to protect federal repatriation law, a Nez Perce attorney said....


Tribes gave more of their money to Republican interests than previous election cycles, Gannett News Service reports....

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