Tuesday, May 21, 2002

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It was easy to see why it took Special Trustee Tom Slonaker a few days to respond to a memo asking him to cooperate with the Department of Interior's ongoing court battle over the Indian trust....

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Tribal leaders and Native activists seeking to protect hundreds of sacred sites are taking their concerns to Congress, where they have found a receptive voice among Indian Country advocates....


The Narragansett Tribe of Rhode Island still wants to repeal a provision in federal affecting its chances of gaming....


During a closed meeting on Monday, FBI director Robert S....


Hotels and resorts on the Yucatan Peninsula of southern Mexico are pumping raw sewage into underground caves that contain Mayan artifacts, according to those who have explored them....


A woman who claims to be the leader of a 3-member California tribe is challenging a Bureau of Indain Affairs ruling....


Two federal agencies on Monday issued a revised biological opinion on a project to dredge the Columbia River to make way for bigger ships....


Five people in Oklahoma have been charged with illegal gambling at a casino purported to be on tribal land....


Arizona's gaming tribes have waited for weeks as lawmakers debate gaming compacts they signed with Gov....


The Arizona Legislature on Monday cleared the way for tribes to host a $350 million Arizona Cardinal football stadium....


A 27-year-old Native man was one of three employees killed at an Arizona fast food restaurant on Sunday night....


Native American activists and their supporters on Monday protested rice research taking place at the University of Minnesota....


It hasn't been a good year for Montana Gov....


"Diabetes on reservations is so common that if you lived there, you would be more likely to become diabetic than you would be to catch the flu during flu season....


Two Maine tribes are going to hand over internal documents to paper companies this week after marching 33 miles to protest the order which requires them to do so....


A school district has rejected a request to drop two Indian-themed mascots....


The Bureau of Indian Affairs has dropped plans to privatize the worst-performing Indian schools....


The Denver Post in an editorial today calls on a Colorado school to get rid of its "Fightin' Reds" mascot....


The traditional three-chief system of the St....


Victory was fleeting for fans of the Bureau of Indian Affairs' web site. After it was restored last week, it is now "Temporarily Unavailable." No one knows for sure when it will be up, a Department of Interior spokesperson told The Denver Post....


The Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska is going to federal court next month to prevent further action by the state of Kansas in a dispute over taxes....


Congratulations are due to Native America Calling host and proud father Harlan McKosato for being recently inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa chapter of his alma mater, the University of Oklahoma....


The Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma has been awarded a unique contract from the Indian Health Service....

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