Thursday, July 17, 2003

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Celia Cruz, the Queen of Salsa, died yesterday at her home in New Jersey....

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An Aboriginal leader who pledged to improve tribal relations with Canada's government was elected head of the country's largest First Nations organization on Wednesday....


A former judge for the Cheyenne-Arapaho Tribe of Oklahoma is disputing his removal by the tribal business committee....


The Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation of Connecticut operates one of the largest water treatment plants on the East Coast, The Norwich Bulletin reports....


The Bush administration will be starting to clean up toxic mine waste in the Coeur d'Alene Basin in Idaho....


The New Mexico Indian Affairs Committee held a hearing in Gallup on Tuesday to address fake Indian arts and crafts....


The Red Cliff Chippewa Tribe and a memorial foundation are offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to the conviction of those responsible for the murder of a tribal education director....


Tribal fishermen on the Columbia River are seeing the best chinook salmon run in nearly 40 years....


The Chippewa Cree Tribe of Montana held meetings this to discuss plans for a $229 million water system that will serve the Rocky Boy's Reservation and the local community....


The Jicarilla Apache Nation of New Mexico is building a new health-care center, a joint venture with the Indian Health Service....


The Navajo Nation is trying to help find bone marrow donors for a 2-year-old Navajo boy with a rare blood disease....


A South Dakota man pleaded guilty on Wednesday as part of a voter fraud investigation involving American Indians....


"Politics can, at times, amount to a funny business in Indian country....


The Senate Indian Affairs Committee on Wednesday approved legislation to distribute a $142 million trust fund to members of the Western Shoshone Nation....


President Bush plans to nominate Janice Rogers Brown, a conservative Republican who sits on the California Supreme Court, to the D.C....


A federal jury in Montana convicted a Crow Reservation man for a fatal car crash....


The Intertribal Bison Cooperative met with Wyoming Governor Dave Freudenthal to discuss bison management issues....


Descendants of the Wenatchi Tribe are asking the federal government to fulfill an overdue promise to create a reservation for them in Washington....


The Yurok Tribe of California on Saturday will protest the Department of Interior's water management policies in the Klamath Basin....


Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado is closed while crews try to battle several fires that are threatening ancient Puebloan villages and artifacts....


Nambe Pueblo in northern New Mexico has declared a state of emergency due to a fire burning on tribal land....


The Kinishba Fire on the Fort Apache Reservation in Arizona has grown to 17,700 acres just as crews were pulled off the expanding blaze....


Racial tensions in Martin, South Dakota, will only get worse unless Indians and non-Indians come together to talk over their differences, The Sioux Falls Argus Leader says in an editorial....


The Weekly Standard, a conservative publication, argues against letting tribal governments manage national park and wildlife units....


Rhode Island Governor Don Carcieri was wrong to send state troopers to the Narragansett Reservation, The New London Day says in an editorial....


Rhode Island attorney general Patrick Lynch accused Governor Donald Carcieri on Wednesday of placing the blame for raid of the Narragansett Tribe's smoke shop on the state police....


A federal judge overseeing the Narragansett Tribe's smokeshop case held a closed-door hearing in Rhode Island on Wednesday....


Some members of the Northern Cheyenne Tribe are fighting the tribe's decision to build a house in their neighborhood....