Thursday, June 20, 2002

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A non-Indian couple who claims they were harassed by a tribal law enforcement officer has asked the Supreme Court to clear the way for an $8 million lawsuit....

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If the name of the federal magistrate who gave a reprieve to three Oklahoma tribes on a gaming dispute that heats up day by day sounds familiar, it should....

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Already facing doubts in Indian Country, the joint federal-tribal task force on trust reform will confront a key issue in the upcoming weeks that could potentially derail the closely watched effort....


A group calling itself the Muhheconnew National Confederacy is protesting the opening of a new state park in New York....


Creating and staffing the new Department of Homeland Security could cost upwards of $1 billion, according to Congressional estimates....


Wyoming's House representative missed a vote this week on a bill to sell federal land to the Mormon Church....


Bureau of Land Management officials met in Montana this week to discuss coalbed methane drilling in the Powder River Basin....


A tribal member who has been a Department of Justice official has joined a Washington, D.C., law firm, Judy Sarasohn of The Washington Post reports....


A Washington school board on Wednesday heard debate on removing the "Indians" nickname from a public school....


Incoming fifth-grade student Tiffany Sullivan recently took home a first place award at an Oklahoma pow-wow and arts festival....


Navajo / Isleta Pueblo golfer Notah Begay is playing in the Greater Hartford Open this week....


The Caddo Tribe of Oklahoma christened its own independent police force on Tuesday....


The Ponca Tribe and a labor union have put a chemical company on notice for alleged violations of state and federal environmental law....


A Congressional committee investigating the September 11 terrorist attacks discussed messages intercepted by the National Security Agency that warned of some sort of action....


The Crow Tribe is trying to attract tourists who visit Montana for the anniversary of the Battle of the Little Bighorn....


Lawmakers from Virginia are up in arms about a proposal to put an image of an American Indian on the reverse side of the nickel, John McCaslin reports in "Inside the Beltway." According to McCaslin, the U.S....


Racism and fear are being cited as reasons why resident of Maine oppose a tribal casino....


World War II hero and Cherokee tribal member Jack C....


A casino-rich tribe is actively lobbying Congress to support the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository in Nevada....


Pojoaque Pueblo in New Mexico filed a lawsuit last month against the Department of Interior over a casino compact approved during the Clinton administration....


The Daily Oklahoman in an editorial today accuses Oklahoma tribes of threatening to turn the state into a casino mecca....


Three Oklahoma tribes challenging federal Indian gaming regulators have won the right to continue operating a controversial casino machine on a temporary basis....


The federal magistrate overseeing the controversial Kennewick Man case expects to issue a ruling by Labor Day....


Teen birth rates in Montana dropped during a four-year period starting in 1996 but the state's reservations didn't always follow....

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