Wednesday, October 30, 2002

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A newly released Indian Health Service study confirms an extremely high infant mortality rate among tribes in the northern Plains, with most of the deaths attributed to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)....

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If you thought voters in South Dakota, Missouri and other battleground states were having a tough time making up their minds, you haven't met the folks over at the Department of Interior....

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The United States owes $1.7million to a group of individual Indian beneficiaries for breaching its trust responsibilities to them, a federal judge has ruled....


A federal lawsuit seeks to change how water is allocated in the Klamath Basin of Oregon and California....


The national offices of the PowerUP program, which aimed to eliminate the digital divide, will close for lack of money, The New York Times reports....


The two candidates for Connecticut's 2nd Congressional district want to change the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act to shut out newly recognized tribes, The New London Day reports....


An international consortium of scientists has launched a new project aimed at understanding how genes are related to diseases like diabetes, asthma and cancer....


An activist who opposes the sale of liquor to Native Americans wants a Nebraska state official to publicly apologize for accusing him of paying people money to break the law....


Students on the Menominee Reservation of Wisconsin are taking part of a nationwide program called I-Safe America to educate young people about Internet safety....


A candidate for the Northern Arapaho Business Council was not allowed on the Wyoming tribe's primary ballot....


The election board of the Oglala Lakota Tribe of South Dakota has to decide by today whether to hold an entirely new primary, The Rapid City Journal reported....


A Native American construction worker kept track of "thousands" of potential Indian burial sites, his daughter told the Rhode Island Archaeological Society....


The sister of accused murdered Benjamin Humphrey said her brother acted because a man referred to her with the derogatory term "squaw." Benjamin Humphrey, 29, pleaded innocent to the murder of Derek Rogers, a Canadian citizen....


The Oglala Lakota Tribe of South Dakota is breaking ground on a new casino today....


A California state commission wants permission to add new charges to its suit against the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians....


Members of the Turtle Mountain Ojibwe Tribe of North Dakota narrowly defeated a change in their constitution last week, the Associated Press reports....


A public memorial service was held Tuesday night for the late Senator Paul Wellstone (D-Minnesota), who died in an October 25 plane crash that also killed his wife, daughter and five others....


Crow elder and historian Howard Boggess received the highest honor from the Montana Historical Society Board of Trustees, The Lincoln Journal Star reported....


The American Civil Liberties Union, which is currently handling a Native voter rights suit, is questioning proposed changes in how absentee ballots in South Dakota will be handled on election night....


An Arizona Republic poll shows that 45 percent of registered voters favor a gaming initiative backed by 17 tribes in Arizona....


Dick Smith: "Indian sovereignty is divisive, detrimental to society and the economy and should be relegated to the past....


Navajo Nation presidential candidate Joe Shirley says his views on the tribe's lawsuit against mining giant Peabody Coal were not interpreted properly....


Supreme Court Justices have their "minds made up" on a case before it goes to oral argument, Justice Clarence Thomas said....


Residents of a Massachusetts town are accusing town leaders of trying delay a federal recognition decision for the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe, The Cape Cod Times reports....


The Bureau of Indian Affairs is accusing members of the Kickapoo Tribe of Texas of not having things written down in their constitution....


The Department of Justice on Tuesday filed its notice of appeal in the Kennewick Man case....


Secretary of Interior Gale Norton made another campaign stop for a Republican candidate on Tuesday, this time in California with state Sen....


A $19 billion discrimination lawsuit filed on behalf of Native American farmers temporarily escaped review by a federal appeals court on Tuesday....


The federal judge overseeing the Individual Indian Money (IIM) lawsuit has scheduled a hearing to address trust fund statements the Bush administration mailed without court approval....


Velma Wallis, a member of the Gwich'in Tribe, has become Alaska's most popular living author....

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