Friday, June 21, 2002

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Tribal leaders and attorneys representing 300,000 American Indian beneficiaries this week decried the Bush administration's attempt to kick a court investigator off the bitter trust fund dispute....

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Five Pacific Northwest tribes who claim a 9,000-year-old man as an ancestor should know by September whether they will get to rebury him....

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Is it Friday already? That means it's time for the weekly list of the movers and shakers in Indian Country and beyond....


The Miccosukee Tribe of Florida is running ads in several newspapers, criticizing local officials for questioning recent land buys....


An attorney for imprisoned American Indian activist Leonard Peltier was turned away by the Supreme Court on Thursday in her quest to hold government officials accountable for withholding information....


The Supreme Court on Thursday overturned decades of precedent and ruled that the execution of the mentally retarded was unconstitutional....


A state-recognized New York Tribe is promising to share profits from a bingo hall with a local town....


A woman who claims to be chief of an Alaska tribe can't keep a casino in New York open for now, a judge has ruled....


Former President Bill Clinton will attend a ceremony today at the Mohegan Sun Casino in Connecticut....


Representative Bob Schaffer (R-Colo.) didn't wear his Fightin' Whites gear to Thursday night's Congressional baseball game....


"The Fast Runner (Atanarjuat)," the all-Inuit film, continues to get positive reviews as it opens across the country....


Gaming regulators in Nevada cleared an Alaska Native corporation investment in a Las Vegas casino....


The Southern Ute Tribe of Colorado has extended a warm hand to residents forced to leave their homes due to a 53,000-acre fire....


The lawmakers handling a probe into the September 11 terrorist attacks accepted blame on Thursday for information leaked to the press....


The Bureau of Indian Affairs has projected it will finalize recognition decisions on two Pequot tribes by June 25....


The first Indian woman to become a doctor will be inducted into the American Medical Women's Association Hall of Fame....


A coalition of tribal and local governments on Thursday proposed that the state of Wisconsin buy 5,000 acres of land to prevent a huge mine near a reservation....


The Blackfeet Nation of Montana on Thursday said reservation ranchers suffered $1.0 million in damages from this month's devastating snowstorm....


A police officer on the Fort Belknap was found dead in her home on Thursday....


The Japanese government says it won't object to indigenous subsistence whaling any longer....


A federal judge in New York dismissed one of the Seneca Nation's land claims....


Three Oklahoma tribes and a gaming company didn't receive further guidance yesterday on their bid to keep operating a controversial casino machine....


A out of control fire which started on the White Mountain Apache Reservation in Arizona has grown to 85,000 acres....

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