Monday, November 25, 2002

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Legislation to unify Indian land inheritance policies, and create a controversial status of trust ownership, died this year despite last-minute lobbying by tribal organizations....

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Neal McCaleb announces resignation from Bureau of Indian Affairs, Bush administration fights trust fund contempt ruling, the 107th Congress adjourns and Pine Ridge voters pick a new leader....

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Assistant Secretary Neal McCaleb isn't the first and probably won't be the last....


The Bureau of Indian Affairs is expected decide whether it will recognize the new leadership of the Kickapoo Tribe of Texas, The Houston Chronicle reported....


Oklahoma Governor-elect Brad Henry (D) supports a lottery but not Class III gaming for the state's tribes....


The New York Times presented a "crash course" on federal recognition in its Sunday magazine....


Eight people have been charged with smuggling alcohol onto the Metlakatla Reservation in Alaska....


The chairman of the Kiowa Nation of Oklahoma says his life has been threatened over his tribe's gaming operations....


A member of the Lumbee Tribe competing at the Miss World pageant headed to London along with dozens of other contestants after deadly riots broke out in Nigeria....


Police treatment of homicides and rapes of Native Americans prompted a reported 125 to overtake a city council meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota....


There are 34 gangs on the Tohono O'odham Nation in Arizona, a reservation the size of Connecticut....


"A recent letter published in The Oklahoman reflects many misconceptions that some non-Indians have about Indians....


The US Forest Service is holding a consultation session with the Hopi Tribe of Arizona over a proposed expansion of a ski based located in the sacred San Francisco Peaks....


Leaders of two Connecticut towns that have complained about the impact of land-into-trust on their tax base are hoping a new tribal hotel will bring in revenue....


Norris "Skinny" Skenandore, a member of the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin, died Saturday night after a lengthy illness....


Lucio Gutierrez, a former military colonel with strong support of Indian leaders and activists, was elected president of Ecuador on Sunday....


The new chairman of the Crow Tribe of Montana has fired an untold number of employees -- as many as 400, according to The Billings Gazette....


The Supreme Court on December 2 will hear oral arguments in two cases affecting the federal government's trust responsibility to tribes....


The Sitka Tribe of Alaska and the Alaska Native Brotherhood/Alaska Native Sisterhood have made their buildings smoke free....


The Chickasaw Nation of Oklahoma has purchased a 94-year-old theater in Ada....


The police department in a small Alaska village has added a drug-sniffing dog to its force....


Congress approved a $192 million water project for the Fort Peck Reservation and surrounding communities....


No one speaks Navajo anymore at a business near the Navajo Reservation in northeastern Arizona....


The Space Shuttle Endeavour had a successful launch on Friday with Chickasaw Nation tribal member John Herrington on board....


Charles Blackwell, the ambassador for the Chickasaw Nation of Oklahoma, said tribal member Neal McCaleb was doing a good job as head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs in a report by National Native News....


There have been eight assistant secretaries for Indian Affairs since the position was created in 1977....


"Even in good times the job is one of the worst in the federal government, trying to steer a bureaucracy crippled for decades by neglect, inertia and corruption....


A member of the Puyallup Tribe of Washington was shot to death over the weekend in a dispute over the custody of her brother's daughter, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported....