Wednesday, December 11, 2002

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The Bush administration is providing $100 million over the next year to fight the growing epidemic of diabetes in Indian Country....

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Once upon a time, a certain Bush administration (not this one, the father's) decided to reorganize the Bureau of Indian Affairs....

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An aide to Assistant Secretary Neal McCaleb has given information to a federal court investigator that calls into question the outgoing Bush official's sworn testimony about his wanton destruction of e-mails, according to an attorney involved in the case....


Jim Billie, the former chairman of the Seminole Tribe of Florida, agreed to be interviewed by federal prosecutors, his attorney told The Miami Herald....


A federal appeals court on Tuesday overturned a federal judge's ruling that struck down the death penalty....


A Congressional panel that investigated intelligence failures before last year's terrorist attacks will release its final report today, according to news accounts....


The number of slot machines allowed in Arizona's tribal casinos will jump from 9,000 to nearly 16,000 in the next five years....


The Maidu Tribe of California and a local county have reached an agreement over a proposed casino....


The Oneida Nation of New York has sold $135 million worth of bonds to pay for part of a casino expansion....


A 42-year-old man was taken into custody early Tuesday morning for allegedly shot another man on the Spirit Lake Reservation in North Dakota....


The central Arctic caribou herd in Alaska has grown size over the past two years, Petroleum News Alaska reports....


The Billings Gazette in an editorial today says the state of Montana must pay more attention to Indian children in light of Census figures released that show an undercount....


The Autry Museum of Western Heritage and the Southwest Museum, both of California, are merging....


A site being proposed for the future Shiprock Navajo Nation fair grounds is radioactive, The Farmington Daily-Times reports....


Rocks With Wing, a documentary about a girls basketball team on the Navajo Reservation in New Mexico, debuts on PBS tonight....


Criticism of incoming Senate Majority Leader (R-Mississippi) continues to grow over his remarks that many attribute to an endorsement of racial segregation....


The Nebraska Court of Appeals on Tuesday reinstated a wrongful death suit filed by the family of an Oglala Lakota man killed in a highway accident....


The Associated Press obtained copies of more than 40 affidavits that Republican lawyers collect in the wake of Democrat Senator Tim Johnson's narrow win in South Dakota....


Former senator Slade Gorton, the Washington Republican who was defeated in the 2000 election by a Democrat with heavy tribal backing, has been named to a presidential commission on the September 11 terrorist attacks....


A Republican lawmaker in Connecticut wants to terminate state-recognized tribes, The New London Day reports....


Navajo Nation President-elect Joe Shirley Jr....


The Alaska Inter-Tribal Council is meeting in Anchorage this week to discuss a controversial proposal to change the way Alaska Native tribes are funded....


"Lou Dobbs Moneyline," a CNN program is running an online poll that asks the question: "Do you believe gambling on Indian reservations should be tax-exempt?" The results of the unscientific poll show that respondents believe the answer is "No." Yesterday, Dobbs interviewed Donald Barlett, editor at large for TIME, about the magazine's recent report on Indian gaming....


Assistant Secretary Neal McCaleb has been asked to look into an Oklahoma tribe's proposal to open a bingo hall in New York....


A federal appeals court on Tuesday affirmed the prison term of a South Dakota tribal member who pleaded guilty to killing his second cousin....


The Department of Interior on Tuesday assigned a new director for the office responsible for maintaining trust records belonging to hundreds of tribes and 500,000 American Indians....


Schaghticoke Tribal Nation The Bureau of Indian Affairs publishes notice that the Assistant Secretary -- Indian Affairs proposes to decline to acknowledge that the Schaghticoke Tribal Nation (STN) exists as an Indian tribe within the meaning of Federal law....


A judge in Canada on Tuesday granted Inuits a temporary reprieve from a gun control law they say infringes on their rights....

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