After months of political wrangling, President Bush on Thursday signed into law a massive appropriations bill that funds the federal agencies for the current year....

Is it Friday already? That means it's time for the weekly list of the movers and shakers in Indian Country and beyond....

American Indians and Alaska Natives are less likely to die from strokes than any other racial or ethnic group in the nation, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported on Thursday....

Bob Bennett, a former major league baseball prospect and former cop on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, is joining the FBI as a special agent....

A Mexican court has overturned the convictions of two Huichol Indian men accused of killing an American journalist....

Two Colorado residents pleaded guilty to damaging and disturbing an archaeological site in the San Juan National Forest....

Six men in New York were charged with smuggling $10 million worth of counterfeit cigarettes from China and selling them on the Seneca Reservation and on a web site....

Bureau of Indian Affairs law enforcement responded to a private plane crash on the Crow Reservation of Montana....

A new member of the Central School District board in the Four Corners region of New Mexico wants more Navajos and minorities in leadership positions....

The Native American Business Alliance national conference will be held in Albuquerque, New Mexico, next year....

A California court is suing the Bureau of Indian Affairs for approving a landfill on the Cortina Rancheria....

Republican lawmakers in Wisconsin criticized Democratic Governor Jim Doyle for making a new gaming deal with the Oneida Nation....

A witness in the trial of a man accused of raping and killing an Alaska Native woman said he was shown the body of the victim....

Wyoming Governor Dave Freudenthal honored John Myers, a member of the Eastern Shoshone Tribe, for 50 years of volunteer fire service....

The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday gave the telephone industry a mixed victory....

The Alaska Division of Public Health released a bulletin last week criticizing a study that linked high levels of toxic chemicals in Alaska Natives to an abandoned military site....

With President Bush's signature, the decades-old dispute over 10,000 acres of land in New Mexico was settled on Thursday....

Senator John McCain (R-Arizona) is running for a fourth term in the U.S....

"[T]he cruelest hoax of casinos is on the Indian....

The traditional chiefs of the Northern Cheyenne Tribe of Montana worked all day on Thursday to quell growing tensions affecting the tribal government....

The Blackfeet Nation of Montana has agreed to full Bureau of Indian Affairs authority over law enforcement on the reservation, The Great Falls Tribune reports....

"Just days before the November election, the three tribes with the most to lose - or win - in state casino negotiations dumped $700,000-plus of soft money into Democratic coffers to help elect Jim Doyle governor....

"On February 25, the Indian Affairs Committee of the United States Senate will hear Senate Bill S.344; "A bill expressing the policy of the United States regarding the United States relationship with Native Hawaiians and to provide a process for the recognition by the United States of the Native Hawaiian governing entity, and for other purposes." In our view, S.344 is not a native Hawaiian bill and we urge Indian nation chiefs, tribal councils, attorneys general and legal departments to take notice that S.344 is a potential threat to Indian sovereignty as it would confer unprecedented new rights on the states....

The Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Office of Special Trustee are still disconnected from the Internet, the Department of Interior reported recently....

Two activist groups are kicking off the Year of Atonement in Nebraska on March 1....