Monday, February 24, 2003

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Disputes over jurisdiction, federal funding for Indian programs and law enforcement troubles among top stories. The battle between state and tribal jurisdiction continues to play out in courtrooms and reservations throughout the country as tribes seek to resolve long-standing questions over their authority....

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The night belonged to a 23-year-old singer and pianist by the name of Norah Jones but the 45th annual Grammy awards on Sunday also proved victorious for Aleut / Seminole flute player Mary Youngblood, who took home the award for Best Native American Music album....


A federally-funded program seeks to increase the number of Alaska Natives in rural teaching jobs....


"I was in Portland attending the Winter Conference of the Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians (an organization that includes Montana's Blackfeet, Chippewa-Cree, and Flathead tribes), because, in short, I heard that they were serving lunch....


The Quapaw Tribe and the Seneca-Cayuga Tribe, both of Oklahoma, have stopped offering a blackjack game at their respective casinos....


If the state of Oklahoma enters into gaming compacts with tribes, the state should get a cut of the money, The Daily Oklahoman says in an editorial....


Members of the Pechanga Band of Luiseno Indians of California were meeting on Sunday to consider tribal enrollment criteria as part of an ongoing controversy over attempts to trim 400, whom some say can't show Pechanga lineage, from the tribal rolls....


An attempt by Montana's Indian legislators to repeal the state's English only law has failed....


Several Oklahoma tribes sent their fire crews to Texas to help NASA search for debris of the downed space shuttle Columbia....


Two proposals to expand gaming in Nebraska are ready for debate in the State Legislature....


"On winter days when the wind blows across the snow and forms swirls of clouds that give the land an eerie, ghostlike look, that is the time for telling stories, my grandmother would say. I remembered that Friday while walking to my car and feeling the cold wind in my face and the ice under my feet....


Navajo Nation President Joe Shirley Jr....


Four years ago, Congress authorized a dam project in Kansas that would help relieve drought worries on the Kickapoo Reservation and surrounding areas....


Who has jurisdiction over crimes that occur within the boundaries of Indian reservations is a question asked by Jodi Rave of The Lincoln Journal Star....


Geri Small has resumed control of the Northern Cheyenne Tribe of Montana but tribal opponents are moving forward with an attempt to remove her....


"The campaign manager for then-Gov....


This week marks the 30th anniversary of the start of the 1973 standoff on the Pine Ridge Reservation of South Dakota....


The Seminole Nation's businesses have come under the investigation of a grand jury, The Daily Oklahoman reported....


Fifteen Arizona lawmakers are backing a bill to remove "squaw" from place names in the state....