Thursday, April 25, 2002

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After nearly two decades of legal wrangling, all parties in a dispute over the Sandia Mountains in New Mexico agreed on Wednesday that the issue needed resolution....

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A former Clinton administration official came under fire on Wednesday for an 11th-hour legal opinion that favored a New Mexico tribe's controversial land claim....


A 29-year-old traditional Crow cradleboard is getting some new use....


The White House and Sen....


Two Maine tribes said they won't seek to host a casino in the town of Kittery....


The Narragansett Tribe of Rhode Island has found great local support for a casino....


Arizona tribes would be required to disclose how much money the make from their casinos and how it is used....


Bones and other items found at a site in Arizona are being repatriated to the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Tribe....


Next time you eat some potato chips, you just might be eating Navajo potatoes....


The Senate is finalizing work on an energy policy bill in preparation for a vote today....


Environmentalists and fishermen have asked a federal judge for a temporary restraining order on water in the Klamath River....


THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 2002 A Republican-drafted report linking the Irish Republican Army to leftists rebels in Colombia was criticized at a House hearing on Wednesday....


"In many parts of our world, ruins are prized and promoted for a variety of educational and economic benefits....


The parties to a lawsuit over Native voting rights are asking a federal judge for an extension....


After surviving three gunshot wounds at close range, Jim Shore, the general counsel for the Seminole Tribe of Florida, is recuperating under armed guard....


Everything about the National Museum of the American Indian under construction in Washington, D.C., will be Native....


The Department of Interior is opposing a $250 million water project on the Rocky Boy's Reservation in Montana....


The Bureau of Indian Affairs has adopted a new policy on driving by employees....


A New Mexico jury on Wednesday said a man should die for murdering a Navajo woman....


Two Senate committees held a joint hearing on Wednesday to address a bill that settles Sandia Pueblo's claim to the Sandia Mountains in New Mexico....


Deputy Secretary of Interior Steven Griles tried to suppress a report critical of efforts to drill in the Powder River Basin, The Washington Post reports today....


The Bureau of Indian Affairs hasn't assigned a cause to a recent fire on the Mescalero Apache Reservation in southern New Mexico....