Thursday, May 30, 2002

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A group of tribal leaders has endorsed the creation of a new Department of Interior official to handle the trust assets of hundreds of tribes and 300,000 American Indians....

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The Supreme Court meets today to consider taking its second Indian trust case of the term, one which tribal leaders fear could have wide implications....

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Poor Gale Norton....


A federal judge has agreed to allow the Bureau of Indian Affairs to delay a final recognition decision on two Connecticut tribes....


The Peruvian government has been holding public hearings to document two decades of violence brought on by separatist political movements....


A Department of Agriculture inquiry has cleared a controversial nominee of wrongdoing, Secretary Ann Veneman told a Congressional committee on Tuesday....


A federal jury in Montana has awarded a $6 million award to the estate of a man killed by a Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway train....


FBI Director Robert Mueller III for the first time admitted on Wednesday that the September 11 terrorist attacks might have been uncovered had investigators pieced together all the information....


In a politically and environmentally popular move, the Bush administration on Wednesday announced plans to halt drilling in the Everglades and off the shores of Florida....


All members of Wyoming's Congressional delegation are opposed to the sale of federal land to the Mormon Church....


The Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation of Kansas has approved an emergency preparedness agreement with a local county....


The tribes on the Fort Belknap Reservation in Montana are offering tours of a defunct gold mine they are seeking to clean up....


A US Attorney with a background in Indian affairs has been assured that changes to the FBI won't affect investigations on reservations in the Minnesota area....


A member of the White Earth Band of Ojibwe has accused a Minnesota creditors of discrimination against American Indians....


Indian retailers and the Seneca Nation of New York are challenging recent seizures of cigarettes bound for the reservation....


The National Council of Legislators from Gaming States is meeting in a city known for risk-taking this weekend....


A subsidiary of an Alaska Native corporation has signed a $13 million contract for a defense project....


New rules the Department of Justice instituted yesterday give free reign for FBI agents to surf Internet web sites....


The Te-Moak Tribe of Nevada is considering legal action against the Bureau of Land Management for seizure of $100,000 worth of tribal cattle....


A federal judge on Tuesday found an Alaska Native elder guilty of one count of stealing tribal funds....


California state biologists on Wednesday recommended less stringent protections for a species of salmon fished by tribes....


Divers in Montana recovered the body of a Rocky Boy's tribal police officer on Wednesday....


FREDERICK P....


A White Man says Indians are proud of the name "Redskins," according to John McCaslin of The Washington Times....


The Arizona State University has dropped a policy which discouraged non-Indian enrollment in an class on Navajo history....


"Indian tribes with casinos argue that gambling is the yellow brick road to Native American economic development....


The Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation of North Dakota wants to start up a casino boat on Lake Sakakawea....

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