Thursday, June 13, 2002

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In response to controversies during the Clinton administration, the Department of Interior has been asked to clarify whether the recommendations of federal recognition researchers can be overturned....

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Secretary of Interior Gale Norton said today her department has spent at least $13 million to reconnect its computer systems to the Internet....

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Additional documents of the Department of Interior's joint tribal-federal task force on trust reform are published in today's Federal Register....


The Environmental Protection Agency is relaxing air pollution rules governing aging coal-burning power plants....


The Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission has interviewed elders from 11 tribes in Wisconsin, Michigan and Minnesota as part of a project on the traditional use of plants....


Former South Dakota gubernatorial candidate Ron Volesky plans to seek the Democratic nomination for state attorney general....


A dispute between the Meskwaki Tribe of Iowa and a former consulting is headed back to the state court system....


A man on the Red Lake Reservation in Minnesota was indicted in federal court for stabbing his wife....


Mohegan chairman being disingenuous Editor: In Gail Ellen Daly's May 28 article, "Band trying to prove its place in history," the Mohegan Tribe of Indians of Connecticut Tribal Chairman Mark Brown is quoted: "In 1993, just prior to federal recognition, we tried to locate anyone who could show, through genealogy, they had common ancestors." Brown's comments are disingenuous at best....


The Kansas University Museum of Anthropology will host its last Indian Arts Show this fall....


A museum in Australia will repatriate the skulls of eight Tasmanian Aboriginals....


Tohono O'odham Nation police spend most of their days dealing with Mexican nationals who use the Arizona tribe's 4,500-square-mile reservation to enter the U.S....


The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ruled that the US Commission on Civil Rights (USCCR) retaliated against a former worker who filed a discrimination complaint....


President Bush will work to increase high-speed Internet access, The Washington Post reports today....


The Department of Education is calling for states to overhaul their teacher certification systems....


Indian heritage deserving of tribute Teresa C....


Congressional leaders met with Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge on Thursday to discuss the creation of a new Cabinet department....


A group of Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian elders came together more than 20 years ago and looked for a way to stop the loss of their cultures....


The leader of the nation's largest organization of Indian casinos on Wednesday called for the federal government to revoke hundreds of Clinton-era mandates deemed obtrusive to tribal sovereignty....


The Navajo Code Talkers seem to get all the credit but warriors from other tribal nations also helped the United States with code efforts during World War II....


The Seminole Tribe of Florida filed a lawsuit in state court, alleging former employees bilked $4 million in tribal profits....


San Ildefonso Pueblo in New Mexico is working with local officials on a project that could help provide clean water for the region....


The Environmental Protection Agency in April warned the Mescalero Apache Nation of New Mexico that it was violating the Clean Water Act....


Rebecca Watson of the Department of Interior has recused herself from coalbed methane drilling issues in the Powder River Basin of Wyoming and Montana....


Damage from a recent storm that hit the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana is estimated at $1 million, with tribal leaders and residents fearing additional flooding....


The Advisory Council on Historic Preservation on Wednesday held a hearing in South Dakota....


Secretary of Interior Gale Norton has ordered any employees with fire certification to report for fire duty....


Tlingit tribal members in Washington held a ceremony on Wednesday for an orphaned orca....


The Mississippi Band of Choctaws can run a car dealership, a Louisiana state panel said on Wednesday....


Exxon Mobil Corp has lowered the amount of damages it wants to pay to Alaska Natives, fishermen, land owners and others affected by the Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989....