Friday, May 10, 2002

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A decision by a Department of Interior judicial official would severely limit the ability of federal regulators to police the $10 billion and growing Indian gaming industry....

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Colorado River Indian Tribes - You finally exposed the limitations of the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act....

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The Department of Justice has asked a federal court official to rescind a critical report which could lead to charges of criminal misconduct against Secretary of Interior Gale Norton....


The Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohicans currently live in Wisconsin but the tribe's roots are in New York....


A federal judge this week refused to dismiss a land claim lawsuit filed by the Wyandotte Nation of Oklahoma....


Karen Dixon-Blazer says she was wrongly fired from her job as executive director of Navajo Preparatory School in New Mexico....


Acoma Pueblo author Simon Ortiz will received one of two honorary doctorates this year from the University of New Mexico....


The 21 students graduating from the Institute of American Indian Arts in New Mexico will receive a comedic send-off....


The Idaho Secretary of State has certified a Class III gaming initiative sponsored by two tribes....


The Aquinnah Wampanoag Tribe of Massachusetts, like others in New England, will have to wait before its casino dreams are realized....


The Ponca Nation of Oklahoma has joined forces with a labor union to protest a chemical plant....


Tribes in Arizona are drafting a ballot initiative to support Indian gaming....


Federal authorities investigated Ute Mountain Ute chairwoman Judy Knight-Frank for years before the Colorado leader was indicted this week....


"We in the non-Native American gaming industry face a regulatory system that is more stringent, which results in an unfair, anticompetitive marketplace....


New Mexico officials have dated four sets of remains uncovered near a dam to the 1800s....


The Bush administration is moving to stop a federal judge's ruling from impacting the mining industry....


A federal appeals court unanimously ruled on Thursday that a Clinton appointee to the U.S....


President Bush and Republicans attacked Democrats on Thursday for not confirming appointees to the federal bench fast enough....


Members of the Puyallup Tribe of Washington will receive $2,000 a month in casino revenues....


Deputy Interior Secretary Steven Griles won't deal with future coalbed methane studies in the Powder River Basin....


An attorney representing 300,000 American Indian trust fund beneficiaries is decrying the Department of Justice's criticism of a court official....


Two rival factions of the Seminole Nation are asserting power over the Oklahoma tribe....


The Colorado River Indian Tribes are at the heart of a debate over more or less regulation of Indian gaming, The Arizona Republic says today....


The University of St Thomas in Minnesota on Thursday announced it was canceling its annual pow-wow because of a court challenge....


Fifteen members of the Western Shoshone Nation are wrapping up their 240-mile Run on Sacred Lands in Nevada today....


Fire crews on Thursday continued to battle a 750-acre blaze in the Chuska Mountains of New Mexico....


Drinking in public can't get you arrested in Nebraska even though it is a violation of liquor laws....


John Graham is the head of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs and a White House official with great influence....


The Senate rejected drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge because the public doesn't understand what's at stake, according to a Department of Interior official....


Haskell Indian Nations University in Kansas is in dire financial straits, The Lawrence Journal-World reports today....


Closing arguments in a trial addressing law enforcement services provided to Alaska Native villages were heard on Thursday....


The Blackfeet Nation of Montana has renewed a cross-jurisdictional agreement with the state....


The Navajo Nation is awaiting a response from a Utah school board regarding the Devil, a tribal spokesperson told The Salt Lake Tribune....


American Indian 10th graders in Minnesota scored no better on a statewide writing test when compared to last year, according to results released on Thursday....


Cochiti Pueblo in New Mexico is opposing a proposal by the Department of Interior to drain a man-made lake in order to protect an endangered fish....