Monday, April 22, 2002

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The Supreme Court is set to announce today whether it will accept a case the Bush administration has pitted as pivotal to the future of the Indian trust....

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The federal government is no closer to fixing the broken Indian trust than it was seven years ago when Congress dictated numerous reforms, a senior Department of Interior official has told a small group of tribal leaders and outside advisers....


Students from Haskell Indian Nations University took part in a protest of a proposed highway project in Kansas....


"My wife and I went to the school gym to watch [our daughter] Frances participate in a "Patriotism Assembly," a musical program in which students dressed as figures from American history and, between patriotic songs, stepped up to the microphone and briefly described their role in the building of this great nation....


The Navajo Nation council last week voted to allow three health care facilities to contract health services from the Indian Health Service....


Members of the Jicarilla Apache Nation of New Mexico are working with the University of New Mexico to create a dictionary of their language....


"I am a white guy and I am not a racist....


Leaders and officials in New Hampshire are increasingly speaking out against a proposal tribal casino in Maine....


The Mohegan Tribe of Connecticut is responding to concerns about worker safety....


The retired former president and CEO of Cook Inlet Regional Inc., an Alaska Native regional corporation, is planning a comeback....


There is opposition to Indian gaming in New York state, playing itself out in the courts and the statehouse....


The Institute of American Indian Arts Museum in New Mexico hosted its third annual Children's Day on Sunday....


"I'm a transplant to the Grand Forks area, and I feel it is my home, but there are times when I am not so proud of some things in the community....


President Bush is promoting Earth Day with the "Clear Skies" initiative, one of his new environmental priorities....


African-Americans have always been a part of the Seminole Nation, a writer for the New York Times says....


A jury in New Mexico will hear testimony this week before deciding whether a man they found guilty or murdering a Navajo woman should be put to death....


When Jan Gangelhoff was questioned by federal prosecutors for her role in a cheating scandal at the University of Minnesota, she said she brought some powerful help with her....


Flush with casino profits, the Prairie Island Dakota Tribe of Minnesota has donated $37,000 recently to Republicans....


The prospect of transferring thousands of acres of federal forest land to the Klamath Tribes of Oregon has some non-Indians worried....


A former business partner of Wayne Smith, the deputy to Assistant Secretary Neal McCaleb, promised potential tribal clients great access to the federal government....


Three lawmakers introduced legislation last week that would further scuttle Secretary of Interior Gale Norton's proposal to create an Indian trust agency....


It will take months for the Department of Interior to recover from its Internet shutdown, a senior official has told Government Executive Magazine....


Senator Frank Murkowski (R-Alaska) refused to comment last week about a proposal to allow drilling on Native-owned lands in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge....