Monday, August 26, 2002

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A federal appeals court on Friday refused to reinstate a discrimination lawsuit involving a self-described medicine man who faces criminal charges for possession of peyote....

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Idaho tribes win major victory on gas taxes, Indian County gets update on landmark trust fund case, top Indian gaming regulator to resign from post, and elder health care focus of new reports....

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Secretary of Interior Gale Norton is refusing to testify about her role in the recent ouster of a federal official who questioned her claims of progress in fixing the broken Indian trust fund, the latest attempt by the Bush administration to restrict oversight of the growing debacle....


An Alaska Native corporation has come under fire for its views on fish culverts....


The Southern Ute Tribe of Colorado has been forced to find alternate sources for water because post-fire mud and debris have polluted the Pine River....


Inuit hunters in Canada have come up with an ingenious way to preserve their subsistence lifestyle, earn some money and make big game hunters happy....


Putting the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe of South Dakota into receivership might help reduce a $31 million debt, The Sioux Falls Argus Leader says in an editorial....


An Alaska Native village corporation is distributing $200,000 to 147 shareholders....


The Bureau of Indian Affairs is the only federal agency that requires all fire fighters to submit to drug tests....


The 15th annual Totah Festival is being held in Farmington, New Mexico, this weekend....


The Southern Pequot Tribal Nation of Connecticut is one of several groups claiming descent from the historic Pequot Nation....


The Army Corps of Engineers has awarded the Mohegan Tribe of Connecticut a federal permit for a major fishery project....


"WILD CAR CHASES THROUGH BUSY DOWNTOWN STREETS! BUSTIN' DOWN DOORS, VIOLENT GUN BATTLES, SLAPPIN' SOME UNCOOPERATIVE PERP UPSIDE THE HEAD, BLOWIN' STUFF UP, WILD SEX and DONUTS have absolutely nothing to do with this column....


"On reservations, there are men and women who are unsung heroes....


"Shortly after my campaign for Congress ended in July, I heard from Mashantucket Chairman Kenny Reels....


The Bureau of Indian Affairs has taken nine acres of land into trust for the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation....


The Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation of Connecticut wrapped up its annual Schemitzun pow-wow this weekend....


After a long hiatus, the infamous Pequot Letters are back! A sampling of the latest published by The New London Day of Connecticut....


Who controls housing at for the Caddo Nation of Oklahoma? As the tribe figures out the answer, housing is being denied to tribal members....


Two northern California tribes are caught in a battle over fish, water, treaty rights and angry white farmers....


The Bureau of Indian Affairs has a new chief information officer who is responsible for fixing the agency's numerous computer problems....


The Billings Gazette continues its ongoing series on the Nez Perce War of 1877....


Congress is poised to pass legislation to distribute a $120 million trust fund to about 5,000 Western Shoshone tribal members in Nevada....


The Canadian government hasn't been providing funds to clean up a heavily contaminated Arctic island in Nunavut....


A company that wants to operate a hog farm on the Rosebud Sioux Reservation has asked the Supreme Court to intervene....


The Bureau of Indian Affairs is the target of a class action alleging violation of federal privacy laws....


The Red Cross in Arizona is holding a bone marrow drive on September 2 for Blanca Frias, a 13-year-old Pasqua Yaqui tribal member who is suffering from leukemia....


Paul Waterman, a traditional Onondaga Nation chief, died at a New York hospital on Sunday....


The following documents of note were published in today's Federal Register....


The Skull Valley Goshute Tribe of Utah plans to store up to 44,000 tons of highly radioactive nuclear waste on its reservation....