Tuesday, December 17, 2002

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Inquiring tribal leaders wanted to know....

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With the death knoll sounding for the joint federal-tribal task force on trust reform, tribes and the Department of Interior are looking for ways to achieve what almost seems like an unattainable goal: meaningful consultation....

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Tribal leaders on Monday expressed uneasiness about the Bush administration's latest proposal to reorganize Indian affairs within the Department of Interior....


"Washington Journal," a C-SPAN program, will feature a discussion on Indian gaming today....


Connecticut's two tribal casinos reported results of their slot machine earnings for the month of November....


Secretary of Interior Gale Norton signed an order on Monday to force the state of California to abide by a multi-state Colorado River water rights agreement....


"The Bureau of Indian Affairs was established in 1824....


The Navajo Nation Tribal Utility Authority has a new office building in Shiprock, New Mexico....


Indian students from North Dakota are joining their counterparts in New York City for a musical performance....


President Bush signed into law a bill that authorizes a water improvement project on the Jicarilla Apache Reservation in northern New Mexico....


A Montana businessman pleaded innocent in federal court on Monday to submitting false claims to the Bureau of Indian Affairs....


"My mother, Dorothy, turned 86 on Monday, and the family gathered in White Shield, N.D., over the weekend to celebrate....


First Nations leaders in Saskatchewan are calling on David Ahenakew, an Aboriginal leader, to apologize for remarks he made in defense of the Holocaust....


Ousted Seminole chairman Jim Billie testifed in federal court on Monday about his role in the Florida tribe's risky business deals....


President Bush will no longer defend incoming Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-Mississippi) over racially divisive remarks he made about segregation, according to news accounts....


Wyoming Governor Jim Geringer rejected a federal mediator's recommendation to allow casino gaming on the Wind River Reservation....


"Imagine this news headline: "Dirty Dealing: U.S....


A Bureau of Indian Affairs contract firefighter accused of helping to start the largest fire in Arizona history was ruled incompetent to stand trial....


Some Oklahoma tribes have "stepped over the lines" by offering legally questionable casino games, the new chairman of the National Indian Gaming Commission said in an interview with The Daily Oklahoman....


Republican attorneys drafted pre-worded affidavits alleging voter fraud among Indian voters in South Dakota and did nothing to verify the claims, The Sioux Falls Argus Leader reports....


The Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal of a land dispute involving the Fort Mohave Tribe and the Colorado River....


A federal judge has scheduled a hearing this morning to address an apparent attempt by a senior Department of Interior official to avoid questioning about efforts to fix the broken Indian trust....


A court investigator for the Indian trust fund lawsuit said on Monday he was concerned about the Internet habits of senior Bureau of Indian Affairs officials....


Attorneys for 500,000 Indian beneficiaries on Monday said they no longer needed to question outgoing Assistant Secretary Neal McCaleb on his destruction of e-mail....


Another large land-based tribal nation is opposing the Bush administration's proposed reorganization of the Bureau of Indian Affairs....


Outgoing Navajo Nation President Kelsey Begaye will be out of a job, and out of home, next month....