Tuesday, March 19, 2002

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The movement to protect sacred sites scored a major victory on Monday when the Supreme Court refused to hear a case affecting the Hoopa Valley Tribe of California....

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The Bush administration is getting ready to hold a round of nationwide consultation sessions to discuss another one of its controversial proposals....

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In response to complaints about office thievery, Sen....


The National Geographic Society on Monday announced the discovery of a Incan village previously unknown to archaeologists....


A public-private enterprise in Utah is aimed at increasing Indian foster homes....


A Minnesota man has paid $4,000 in fines to the Red Lake Ojibwe Band for trespassing on the tribe's reservation....


The FBI on Monday arrested a Laguna Pueblo officer for allegedly raping a female prisoner on a road in New Mexico....


It's down to the wire for the Gila River Tribe and the city of Mesa for a $350 million Arizona Cardinals football stadium....


The top aide to Rhode Island's Secretary of State has been barred from involvement in statewide issues because he arranged meetings between the Narragansett Tribe and a casino company....


The president of Arizona's Senate on Monday took a number of gaming-related bills off the agenda, setting the stage for a special session this spring....


The Klamath Tribe of Oregon is criticizing a Congressional proposal that provides aid to farmer in the Klamath Basin but no funds for fish and wildlife....


Leaders from towns next to reservations in Connecticut are supporting a proposal to increase the amount of money they receive from a tribal casino fund....


Alaska Native corporations are bankrolling a campaign called "Let Us Decide" to force the subsistence issue....


The Food and Drug Administration on Monday said it would suspend a rule that requires drug companies to ensure their products are safe for children....


An attorney for imprisoned activist Leonard Peltier went before the Supreme Court on Monday to tell of her struggles to get information about her now dead husband out of the federal government....


The Senate has scheduled a final vote on Wednesday for the campaign finance reform bill....


A study sponsored by the the United Tribes of Wisconsin cites increased jobs and revenue from tribal casinos....


The Pentagon is looking into alleged misuse of government credit cards after a Congressional report and testimony documented millions of dollars of unpaid debt....


A group challenging the Muckleshoot Tribe of Washington is criticizing an environmental analysis of a proposed amphitheater on reservation land....


A group which claims to be successor to the historic Mohegan Tribe of Connecticut is hoping to develop a golf course and resort....


The McQueen School in the village of Kivalina, Alaska, reopened on Monday after being closed for two weeks....


Former Seminole Chief Jim Billie entered his Florida tribe into a number of business deals that have resulted in little or no payoff....


A dispute over the status of a parcel of land in New Mexico is being fought in state courts....


"The Navajo Health Care System Corporation Board of Directors would like to respond to comments that have appeared recently in the local media, specifically, the Navajo Times, the Gallup Independent and The Farmington Daily Times. Some comments have taken the focus off of the hard work that we, our CEO, our attorney and our corporation staff have been trying to do, and inappropriately placed it on our CEO and our attorney personally....


In an editorial, The Sioux Falls Argus Leader praises a Native woman for being a "trailblazer" who "shook up South Dakota" in her fight to change Indian mascots....


"Sometimes offense is the best defense. That appears to be what some innovative Native American Indian students at the University of Northern Colorado had in mind....


The Minneapolis Star-Tribune: "Either late this week or after a two-week break, the US Senate will get back to considering its energy bill....



The Senate Judiciary Committee of the Colorado Legislature has voted unanimously to approve an Indian child welfare bill....


The Navajo Nation is instituting a reservation-wide 3 percent sales tax on April 1....


Computer systems at the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the Minerals Management Service and the U.S....


Washington state and federal authorities on Monday arrested a group of men for allegedly poaching $1.3 million worth of geoducks from state and tribal waters....