Thursday, April 18, 2002

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House Democrats clashed with tribal leaders on Wednesday over a proposal to prevent labor unions from taking a piece of the $10 billion and growing Indian gaming industry....

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But in this case, they never went away! After saying it would stop using Indian imagery, West Virginia's 4-H chapter has changed its mind, The Washington Times reports today. Turns out the chapter got the wrong impression from the Department of Agriculture, which provides $4.5 million in federal funds through the Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service and can't tell the group what to do with the money....

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Attorneys representing 300,000 American Indians have asked a federal judge to halt a proposed move of 32,000 boxes of trust fund records....

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A federal judge is being urged by a court investigator to take immediate action against the Department of Interior in order to protect 300,000 American Indians....


Faced with a lawsuit in its court, the Kickapoo Tribe of Oklahoma is blasting a former gaming partner....


A former Indian Health Service nurse has pleaded guilty in federal court to federal conspiracy charges....


In an editorial today, The Farmington Daily-Times praises the Navajo Nation council for overriding a veto and restoring $2 million in funds for a tribal school....


James Al Hendrix, father of guitar great Jimi Hendrix, died on Wednesday at the age of 82....


Archaeologists working in Peru have discovered more than 2,000 well-preserved Inca mummies....


Research published in today's issue of Nature suggests human ancestors roamed with dinosaurs more than 80 million years ago....


A federal judge on Wednesday instructed a government attorney to start identifying records related to the roundup and killing of bison near the Yellowstone National Park....


A federal judge in Oregon on Wednesday rejected the Bush administration's attempt to block an assisted suicide law....


Representatives of the Six Nations Confederacy are in Pennsylvania to push plans for a casino....


A bill to implement gaming compacts with Arizona's tribes died on Wednesday by a procedural vote....


Organizers of major conventions are pulling out from western New York because the Seneca Nation hasn't yet set up a casino, local officials said. It was hoped a temporary casino could have been up and running already at the Niagara Falls convention center....


The Mohegan Tribe of Connecticut won official endorsement on Wednesday for its $7 million regional water project....


Noted author and scholar Joe Sando of Jemez Pueblo will give a talk on Indian and Spanish relations today in New Mexico....


Santa Fe Indian School in New Mexico is the city of Santa Fe's second heaviest water user, according to local records....


The Bush administration on Wednesday denied a senior State Department official spoke with the leader of a coup that temporarily ousted Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez....


Members of a House panel on Wednesday criticized a utility's plan to build a power line through land owned by a California tribe....


The prospects of a Miami Nation casino in Indiana have people stirring about the past, the present and the future....


The Blackfeet Nation tribal council has approved a study to determine if building a lodge near Glacier National Park would be economically viable....


Walter Toolie, a whaling captain from the Siberian Yup'ik village of Savoonga, was found alive on Wednesday....


A special White House task force is taking requests from the energy industry on ways use public lands for energy development....


Republicans are said to be lacking even a simple majority to support oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge....


The Senate Indian Affairs Committee held a hearing on subsistence and fishing issues in Alaska on Wednesday....


Two New York counties have asked a federal judge to certify an appeal of the Cayuga Nation land claim....


A New Mexico man faces the death penalty if convicted of murdering a Navajo woman....


The Wyandotte Nation is setting up a temporary casino in Kansas....


The special master in the Cobell class action on Wednesday urged a federal judge to stop the transfer or 32,000 boxes of trust fund records....


The Environmental Protection Agency is doing some behind the scenes moving of its own this week, raising suspicious about an internal power conflict....