Friday, July 19, 2002

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Despite a successful rally against limitations contained in a Department of Interior spending bill, lawmakers who control the federal government's purse strings seem unwilling to pay for resolution of the Indian trust fund debacle....

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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....

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Indian Country advocates on Thursday unveiled new legislation they said will prevent exploitation of burial sites, ceremonial grounds and other lands sacred to American Indians and Alaska Natives....


Two health employees of the Iowa Tribe were improperly dismissed, a tribal grievance board has ruled....


Research appearing in today's issue of Science reports that glaciers in Alaska are melting at a twice the rate than expected....


The Golden Hill Paugussett Tribe has yet to gain federal recognition but is forging ahead with grand plans for a casino that it says will bring enormous riches to southern Connecticut....


Xavante tribal chief Mario Juruna died of complications related to diabetes on Tuesday....


Congressional hopeful and tribal critic Jeff Benedict is coming under fire by the leader of his own party in Connecticut....


Gerald "Butch" Brun, the newly elected chairman of the Red Lake Nation of Minnesota, says his tribe is in financial crisis....


The Kansas grave site of Vice President Charles Curtis and his wife was re-dedicated at a ceremony on Thursday....


The 17th annual Seafair Indian Days Powwow at Discovery Park starts today in Seattle, Washington....


The Sisseton-Wahpeton Sioux Tribe's college in South Dakota has been given until November to reform its registered nursing program....


"Mergers, pharmaceutical and tribal, are the big news around here, and I'd sure love to listen in as the Eastern Pequots and the Paucatuck Eastern Pequots negotiate the terms of the one forced upon them. Publicly, it's all upbeat talk about joint powwows and drafting a single constitution....


The Wyandotte Nation of Oklahoma is moving forward on a claim to 2,000 acres in Kansas....


Eleven students from all over the globe spent this week on the Navajo Nation as part of a student exchange program....


Army Secretary Thomas White testified before a Senate committee on Thursday about his former company Enron....


A 14-year-old Alaskan won the Indian stick pull contest at the World Eskimo-Indian Olympics on Thursday....


The United Keetowah Band of Cherokee operates a casino that is not on trust land but the Oklahoma tribe isn't worried....


A New Mexico county commissioner is accusing Sandia Pueblo of spreading misinformation about the tribe's land claim....


A federal jury in Illinois acquitted an antiques dealer of breaking federal law by trying to sell a skull dating back a few hundred years....


Three white men on Wednesday pleaded guilty for taking part in a racially-motivated shooting incident targeting the Klamath Tribes of Oregon....


A fire on the Blackfeet Reservation consumed about 6,000 acres as of Thursday....


Northern Cheyenne vice president and hereditary chief John Wooden Legs will be the guest of honor at the Montana Miler run tonight....


Native whaling issues might be transferred to the Bureau of Indian Affairs, according to the president of the Barrow Whaling Captains Association....


A largely white group of Arizona residents whose community was destroyed by the worst fire in state history walked out of a press conference on Thursday after being told no charged would be brought against a woman who admitted starting part of the blaze....


Several Republican and Democrat lawmakers this week unsuccessfully attempted to limit an historical accounting of the Individual Indian Money (IIM) trust....


A spending bill under consideration in the Senate would clear the state of Alaska of penalties for not allowing Alaska Native organizations to self-insure....