Friday, May 10, 2002
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Authority of NIGC placed in doubt
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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In The Hoop: Winners, Losers
Colorado River Indian Tribes - You finally exposed the limitations of the
Indian Gaming Regulatory Act....
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Court monitor attacked for trust fund report
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....
Mohican Tribe reclaiming homeland
The Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohicans currently live in Wisconsin but
the tribe's roots are in New York....
Wyandotte land claim still alive
A federal judge this week refused to dismiss a land claim lawsuit filed by
the Wyandotte Nation of Oklahoma....
School director challenges dismissal
Karen Dixon-Blazer says she was wrongly fired from her job as executive
director of Navajo Preparatory School in New Mexico....
Pueblo author to receive honorary doctorate
Acoma Pueblo author Simon Ortiz will received one of two honorary
doctorates this year from the University of New Mexico....
IAIA students graduating
The 21 students graduating from the Institute of American Indian Arts in
New Mexico will receive a comedic send-off....
Idaho gaming initiative certified
The Idaho Secretary of State has certified a Class III gaming initiative
sponsored by two tribes....
Mass. panel to study gaming
The Aquinnah Wampanoag Tribe of Massachusetts, like others in New
England, will have to wait before its casino dreams are realized....
Tribe fights chemical plant
The Ponca Nation of Oklahoma has joined forces with a labor union to
protest a chemical plant....
Ariz. tribes drafting initiative
Tribes in Arizona are drafting a ballot initiative to support Indian gaming....
Indicted Ute leader watched for years
Federal authorities investigated Ute Mountain Ute chairwoman Judy
Knight-Frank for years before the Colorado leader was indicted this
week....
Letter: Unfair Indian casinos
"We in the non-Native American gaming industry face a regulatory
system that is more stringent, which results in an unfair, anticompetitive
marketplace....
N.M. bones date to 1800s
New Mexico officials have dated four sets of remains uncovered near a
dam to the 1800s....
Judge halts mountaintop waste dumping
The Bush administration is moving to stop a federal judge's ruling from
impacting the mining industry....
Clinton appointee ordered off civil rights panel
A federal appeals court unanimously ruled on Thursday that a Clinton
appointee to the U.S....
Parties battle over federal judges
President Bush and Republicans attacked Democrats on Thursday for not
confirming appointees to the federal bench fast enough....
Puyallup members getting payout
Members of the Puyallup Tribe of Washington will receive $2,000 a month
in casino revenues....
Griles backs out on future drilling
Deputy Interior Secretary Steven Griles won't deal with future coalbed
methane studies in the Powder River Basin....
Attack on court monitor decried
An attorney representing 300,000 American Indian trust fund
beneficiaries is decrying the Department of Justice's criticism of a court
official....
Seminole dispute continues
Two rival factions of the Seminole Nation are asserting power over the
Oklahoma tribe....
For CRIT, a heavy hand
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....
Minn. school cancels pow-wow
The University of St Thomas in Minnesota on Thursday announced it was
canceling its annual pow-wow because of a court challenge....
Shoshone runners complete sacred run
Fifteen members of the Western Shoshone Nation are wrapping up their
240-mile Run on Sacred Lands in Nevada today....
Navajo fire out of control
Fire crews on Thursday continued to battle a 750-acre blaze in the
Chuska Mountains of New Mexico....
Activists drink beer for Natives
Drinking in public can't get you arrested in Nebraska even though it is a
violation of liquor laws....
Regulatory boss wields great power
John Graham is the head of the Office of Information and Regulatory
Affairs and a White House official with great influence....
DOI official says public doesn't get it
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 situation said dire
Haskell Indian Nations University in Kansas is in dire financial straits, The
Lawrence Journal-World reports today....
Village safety trial wraps up
Closing arguments in a trial addressing law enforcement services
provided to Alaska Native villages were heard on Thursday....
Blackfeet Tribe renews police pact
The Blackfeet Nation of Montana has renewed a cross-jurisdictional
agreement with the state....
Navajo Nation still objects to the Devil
The Navajo Nation is awaiting a response from a Utah school board
regarding the Devil, a tribal spokesperson told The Salt Lake Tribune....
Indian student testing rates flat
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....
Pueblo opposing option for lake
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....
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