Monday, March 18, 2002

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A year ago this week, the Department of Interior's top trust reform official told members of a Congressional committee that the Bush administration wanted to settle the Individual Indian Money (IIM) class action that has dragged out for more than five years....


The Gila River Tribe and the city of Mesa are competing for the chance to host a new $350 million Arizona Cardinals football stadium....


Arthur Andersen employees began mass-deleting e-mails related to failed energy company Enron last October, setting off a wave of document destruction that didn't end until the government sent a subpoena for the records....


The way Joe DeLorenzo, a former Rhode Island state legislator, tells it, he was just being nice when he arranged a meeting between the Narragansett Tribe and a casino company....


"I absolutely love it when readers take pen in hand to voice their concerns with me....


An attorney for imprisoned activist Leonard Peltier will argue today before the Supreme Court on the federal government's alleged coverup regarding the death of her husband....


The Bush administration will scale back a policy aimed at reducing pollution from aging power plants, reports The Washington Post....


A study published last month in the Journal of Pediatrics links secondhand smoke to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)....


Citing a family illness, Stacey Sanchez has resigned as chair of the New Mexico Commission on Indian Affairs....


Ramy Brooks will take home a $55,000 check for placing second in the 2002 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race....


The McQueen School in Kivalina, Alaska, is reopening today with a new security officer and five new teachers....


You either love 'em or hate 'em but people can't stop talking about a group of students at the University of Colorado who have nicknamed their intramural basketball team "The Fighting Whities." But some question whether the talking is doing any good....


A group called Casinos No! met on Sunday to fight proposed casinos in Maine....


The Senate might subpoena Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge to force him to testify on national security....


"Today there are few special interests richer than the gambling tribes. They have spread casinos across the nation that generate an estimated $12 billion annually....


Marie Dementoff has become the first women elected to a leadership position for an Alaska Native service organization....


Standford Benally has big dreams of opening a restaurant in Shiprock, New Mexico....


They said it wasn't over and it's not....


Terminated in the 1950s, the Lytton Band of Pomo Indians lost its reservation and has been fighting to get some land back ever since....


Eight private companies hoping to store nuclear waste on Skull Valley Goshute Reservation of Utah have not given the tribe $1.4 million, a spokesperson said....


Sandia Pueblo and Isleta Pueblo in New Mexico support a strict arsenic in drinking water standard but their neighbors in Albuquerque don't seem to agree....


In a Federal Register notice published today, he Bureau of Indian Affairs sets aside its decision to take 165 acres of land into trust for the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation of Connecticut....


Attorneys for 300,000 American Indian trust fund beneficiaries are questioning whether the Department of Interior has sent checks to everyone who deserves them....


The Supreme Court today declined to hear a case challenging the authority of the Hoopa Valley Tribe of California....


Native American families in Utah are younger, larger and are often headed by single mothers, according to the Census 2000....