Thursday, March 27, 2003

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After a lengthy Vote-a-Rama that forced the cancellation of an anticipated Indian gaming hearing, the Senate on Wednesday passed a $2.2 trillion budget for the next fiscal year....

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A high-ranking Bureau of Indian Affairs official tipped off subordinates to a secret visit by a team of investigators looking into computer security vulnerabilities, according to an internal report completed last week....


The entire council of the Meskwaki Tribe of Iowa has been replaced, the Associated Press reports....


Former US Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan died in a Washington, D.C., hospital on Wednesday of complications related to a ruptured appendix....


Anti-gambling groups in Texas oppose a bill that would allow the Tigua Tribe of Texas to operate a Class III casino....


A bill that creates a special entertainment district with 10 casinos Montana will allow tribes in Montana to expand gaming, The Billings Gazette says today in an editorial....


Two Minnesota tribes rallied in support of a bill that would allow them to open a casino in the Twin Cities area....


Rebuffed in their own circles, Republican lawmakers in Wisconsin are seeking new ways to stop the approval of new tribal gaming compacts....


A public vote on reinstating the Chieftain logo at a school in Wisconsin will have to be delayed because the school board failed to follow the law....


The New Zealand government and the Ngati Awa Tribe signed a $42 million settlement related to a 19th century treaty....


The Field Museum in Chicago, Illinois, is repatriating the remains to the Haida Nation of British Columbia, Canada....


A bill to help pay for water treatment at two abandoned mines near the Fort Belknap Reservation in Montana passed a State House committee on Wednesday....


The state of Vermont recently submitted a 254-page report to the Bureau of Indian Affairs opposing federal recognition for the Abenaki Tribe....


Secretary of Interior Gale Norton proposed waiving royalty payments for the drilling industry....


The Southern Ute Tribe of Colorado has started an environmental compliance department to ensure tribal projects comply with tribal, local and federal regulations....


The return of part of the Bear River Massacre site to the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation won't make the tiny tribe "whole" again, The Salt Lake Tribune says in an editorial today....


The Lumbee Tribe opposes a bill that forces resolution of federal status through the Bureau of Indian Affairs, a spokesperson said....


A clay pipe believed to have belonged to Chief Little Crow of the Dakota Nation is being returned to the Shakopee Mdewakanton Tribe of Minnesota....


The Navajo Nation has started an AIDS prevention and education program in response to rising rates of HIV infection and AIDS cases on the reservation....


Twenty people have been arrested on a federal indictment in Montana that alleges children were used to sell methamphetamine and marijuana and that the drugs were sold to children on the Fort Peck Reservation....


Misty Daniels, a member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe of South Dakota, lost her husband Michael Daniels in the Persian Gulf War of 1991....


The federal government's latest report on the Individual Indian Money (IIM) trust is drawing skepticism from all sides of the debate....


A vigil was held on the Navajo Reservation in Arizona on Wednesday for Lori Piestewa, a Hopi woman who is considered missing in action in Iraq....


The state of Oregon has removed its name from a Supreme Court brief that tribal leaders have criticized as inflammatory....


South Carolina lawmakers were warned that fake Indians are trying to get federal recognition and money, The Myrtle Beach Sun News reported....