Tuesday, July 23, 2002

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Thanks to the programming wizardry of New York resident Monica Lamb, you can learn Mohawk from Onkwehonwehneha, an artificial intelligence (AI) robot available to anyone with AOL instant messenger capabilities....

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The Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas made an urgent plea on Monday to keep its disputed casino up and running....

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President Bush's failure to name a new Indian Health Service director has raised fears that a non-Indian will be appointed to oversee the health care of more than 1 million Native Americans....


The Sioux Falls Argus Leader in an editorial today calls on companies to stop using Lakota leader Crazy Horse's name....


A federal judge on Monday said he would decide within a week on a lawsuit filed by tribes and environmental groups....


The Shoshone-Bannock Nation of Idaho is holding a two-day summit this week....


The Bush administration is withholding $34 million in funds from a United Nations family planning program over the objections of a White House advisory panel....


The Senate Judiciary Committee today is holding a hearing for Priscilla Owen, President Bush's pick for the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals....


An anti-casino group plans to file a lawsuit to stop a gaming initiative from going on the November ballot in November....


A South Dakota judge on Monday returned custody of a 5-year-old Native American boy to his mother....


Archaeologists are tracing the discovery of a network of waterways in central Florida to an Indian culture farther north....


Several arrests might be made in connection with more than 200 fires on the Fort Apache Reservation in Arizona, The Arizona Republic reports today....


An executive of a company that has entered into a development deal with the Crow Tribe of Montana praises the arrangement in a guest editorial today....


The 2nd annual National Native Conference on Tobacco Use is being held in Utah this week....


In an opinion piece published in The Washington Post, journalist Liza Featherstone criticizes the Green Party's nomination of Lakota Sioux tribal member Ed McGaa for U.S....


Representative Rob Simmons (R-Conn.) doesn't want to be associated with a Republican bigshot because it would also associate him with the Eastern Pequot Tribe of Connecticut....


Senator Pete Domenici (R-N.M.) reported the approval of $300,000 in funds for a proposed water pipeline affecting the Navajo Nation and other users in New Mexico....


Capitol Reef National Park in Utah plans to repatriate three shields to the Navajo Nation unless there are objections....


Work has begun on the $1.5 million Sacagawea Interpretive and Education Center in Salmon, Idaho....


Navajo ranchers on Monday were able to unload some of their livestock at an auction sponsored by the Navajo Nation....


The National High School Finals Rodeo is being held in Farmington, New Mexico, this week....


Fran Ulmer, the Democratic candidate for governor in Alaska, has taken her campaign to rural Alaska in hopes of reaching Native voters....


Several Alaska Native organizations have asked Secretary of Interior Gale Norton to extend a comment period on the trans-Alaska oil pipeline. The Tanana Chiefs Conference, the Alaska Federation of Natives and the Association of ANCSA Regional Corporation Presidents and CEOs Inc....


A federal judge on Monday ordered the University of Illinois to pay $5,000 for five opponents of the school's Chief Illiniwek mascot....


A hearing will be held tomorrow to address a federal judge's ruling on voting rights affecting the Fort Belknap Reservation....


The California Assembly is considering a bill to add protections to sacred sites....