Monday, March 24, 2003

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It's only been a couple of weeks since the Supreme Court handed down two rulings affecting the trust relationship but Indian Country is already feeling the impact....

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Tribal leaders and Indian advocates are calling on a Senate Republican to apologize for making insensitive and inappropriate comments about American Indian culture....


A California city is being sued for allegedly failing to protect a Yurok village and burial site....


The Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina would have to obtain recognition from the Bureau of Indian Affairs under a bill introduced last week....


Ousted last week as chief of the Seminole Tribe of Florida, Jim Billie built his life on tall tales and big deals that brought tribal members out of poverty but also kept them in the middle of controversy....


"An old friend of mine living on Staten Island, N.Y., recently sent me an interesting article clipped from a periodical of the American Jewish Historical Society....


"Knowing what I know now, it's obvious to me that no real cowboy would ever condone the recent antics of the Montana Department of Livestock, the National Park Service and Gov....


Students all across Alaska are preparing for the 2003 Native Youth Olympics, to be held in Anchorage next month....


Once driven to near extinction, the Roosevelt elk population in the Pacific Northwest has rebounded....


Although a Navajo Nation panel voted not to advance a water agreement, officials in the Four Corners region of New Mexico say the deal is not dead....


The Hopi Tribe of Arizona is mulling over a new constitution that makes major changes to the way the tribe does business....


The Kansas Legislature is considering a bill to expand tribal police powers....


Connecticut's two tribal casinos have pulled their television advertisements in light of the conflict in Iraq....


Native rights activist and former Green Party vice presidential candidate Winona LaDuke said she was sickened to watch the U.S....


More than 12,000 American Indians and Alaska Natives are currently in the armed forces, according to The Arizona Republic....


A comprehensive energy development bill under consideration in the Senate limits federal environmental reviews of tribal energy projects....


When Karen Dullen was growing up in Alaska, she remembers being sent to a "bilingual" class set up for minority students....


A new organization called Society for the Advancement of Native Interests-Today (SANI-T) is working to improve race relations in Rapid City, South Dakota....


A water system on the Crow Reservation of Montana failed over the weekend, leaving about 2,000 residents without water, The Billlings Gazette reports....


The only American Indian in the Senate was "surprised" that a fellow Republican suggested he do a "rain dance," the Associated Press reports....


The Senate Indian Affairs Committee honors a tradition by holding an oversight hearing on Indian gaming this week....


Ancestors of the Seneca-Cayuga Tribe of Oklahoma and the Stockbridge Munsee Mohicans of Wisconsin once called New York home....