Thursday, May 22, 2003

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The federal judge overseeing the Indian trust fund sent a strong message to Congress and the Bush administration on Wednesday, warning against efforts to "undermine" the landmark case....

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Tribal leaders on Wednesday criticized the Bush administration's plans to "grow, not shrink" a Department of Interior office headed by Ross Swimmer, the presidential appointee in charge of overseeing trust reform....


Members of the Tohono O'odham Nation of Arizona will go to the polls on Saturday to choose a chairman and vice-chairman....


With Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Christie Whitman resigning at the end of June, some names are surfacing as her replacement....


The House voted Wednesday to exempt the Department of Defense from two major environmental laws while the Senate approved a more restricted version....


A bill that elevates Indian affairs in the state of South Carolina is advancing in the State Legislature....


A Navajo man convicted of two murders would become the first American Indian on federal death row since the federal death penalty was reinstated in 1994, The Gallup Independent reports....


A diabetes prevention center in Gallup, New Mexico, has been shut down, former Navajo Nation Vice President Dr....


The Lakota Fund has received an economic development grant from Hewlett-Packard....


After 23 years of service at the Native American Education Department of an Arizona school district, Anna Chana is retiring this summer....


A delegation of representatives from Ecuador's tribes is in the United States to talk about the effects of drilling in the Amazon....


Oklahoma Governor Brad Henry (D) will declare May 22 "Jim Thorpe Day." Thorpe, a member of the Sac and Fox Nation, is considered one of the greatest athletes in American history....


The Tohono O'odham Nation of Arizona will build a $10 million outpatient clinic with tribal gaming revenues....


In a commencement speech at the US Coast Guard Academy, President Bush on Wednesday blamed continued hunger in Africa on Europe's ban on genetically modified crops....


A New Zealand tribal leader called the federal government a "resource thief" for refusing to consider compensating Maori tribes for oil and gas royalties a treaty commission said they were wrongly denied....


The Bureau of Indian Affairs only has one employee handling property transactions for the entire United States, according to the employee charged with the task....


Members of the Meskwaki Tribe of Iowa are being asked to go to the polls to choose a new slate of leaders....


A state jury in Connecticut ordered the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation's hotel company to pay $6.8 million to three former employees....


A Minnesota county voted to appeal a suit that contends the Mille Lacs Ojibwe Reservation has been diminished by 61,000 acres....


"Earlier this month, the governor of Minnesota tried to make up for thoughtless comments from his natural resources commissioner about tribal hunting and fishing traditions....


Congress should act to enforce state and local authority over Indian Country, The Sacramento Bee says in an editorial....


US District Judge Royce Lamberth on Wednesday denied the Bush administration's attempt to limit reimbursement to two court investigators who have been critical of the Department of Interior's trust reform efforts....


Four South Dakota tribes have received $17.4 million in housing grants to improve housing on their reservations....


The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee today passed US Senator Pete Domenici’s bill to transfer the control of nearly 4,500 acres of remote surplus federal property to the San Ildefonso and Santa Clara pueblos in northern New Mexico....


The following is the statement of Tom Daschle at the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs Hearing on the Reorganization of the Bureau of Indian Affairs and Office of the Special Trustee....


Thelma Stiffarm, a member of the Gros Ventre Tribe of Montana, was recently appointed assistant administrator of the U.S....

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