Thursday, June 26, 2003

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Are you a retired Bureau of Indian Affairs bureaucrat who actually remembers how trust works? Do you want to start a new career that could take you to the places you've already been? Then work for Special Trustee Ross Swimmer! That's right, if you act now, you just might be hired by the Office of Special Trustee as a fiduciary trust officer....

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The federal judge overseeing the Indian trust on Wednesday expressed skepticism about failed efforts to fix the broken system, challenging special trustee Ross Swimmer to explain why the Bush administration's plans won't suffer the same fate....


Artists who want to exhibit their works at the Hispanic Arts Building at the New Mexico State Fair will be asked to declare their Hispanic heritage....


The Rhode Island House Finance Committee unveiled new legislation that would put a casino before state voters in 2004, restoring language that would tie the proposal to a specific operator....


The Mohegan Tribe of Connecticut is offering to buy back some of the bonds used to finance a $1 billion expansion of its casino, The New London Day reports....


The Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation of Connecticut unveiled plans for a new golf course resort on non-trust land....


Indiana Governor Frank O'Bannon signed an executive order on Wednesday creating the state's Native American Indian Affairs Commission....


The British Columbia government has ratified an agreement-in-principle to settle outstanding claims for the Lheidli T'enneh First Nation....


The Na'al Kid Summer Film Festival is being held at San Juan College in New Mexico Friday through Sunday....


Navajo leaders are pushing President Joe Shirley Jr....


Forty years ago, unemployment among members of Mississippi's Choctaw Tribe was 80 percent....


The Forest County Potawatomi Tribe of Wisconsin is studying the possibility of adding a hotel to its off-reservation casino in Milwaukee....


The Shadow Wolves, a special group of Native American customs agents who have been responsible for some of the largest seizures of illegal drugs on the U.S.-Mexico border, say they are worried about being folded into the new Department of Homeland Security....


Remains uncovered at a site slated for a coal mine are in limbo as federal officials and a power company try to work out a reburial agreement....


Jacqui White Hat, a member of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe of South Dakota, is part of an elite Air Force unit that provides medical service to injured or ill troops....


A California man was sentenced to four years in connection with the death of Shane Zotigh, a member of the Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma....


Law enforcement officials in Texas are furious that a 9-year-old girl from the Kickapoo Tribe was buried ceremoniously in Mexico without an autopsy or further investigation....


The House Appropriations Committee approved the Department of Interior's $19.6 billion spending bill for fiscal year 2004....


A 19-year-old member of the Crow Tribe of Montana won the Ultimate Warrior Challenge, held on the Crow Reservation, on Wednesday....


The family of Lori Piestewa, the Hopi woman killed in action in Iraq, was a guest of honor at Wednesday's dedication of an Indian memorial at the Battle of Little Bighorn....


After 127 years of waiting, the memorial to the Indian warriors who fought at the June 25, 1876, Battle of Little Bighorn was dedicated on Wednesday....


Tesuque Pueblo in New Mexico has broken ground on a new church to replace the historic one that was burned last June....