Tuesday, September 10, 2002

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The Department of Interior continues to resist a court order to account for billions of dollars in Indian trust funds, nearly three years after a federal judge's landmark decision....

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If the folks at the MTV show "Cribs" were to venture over to Congress to do a taping, they'd find the interestingly decorated digs of Sen....

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The Bush administration last week denied federal recognition to a California tribe, affirming one of Assistant Secretary Neal McCaleb's first rulings on the controversial subject....


California Governor Gray Davis (D) has until the end of the month to sign or veto a bill that would help tribes protect sacred sites near their reservations....


A private corporation has patented a strain of Ojibwe wild rice, Anishinaabeg activist Winona LaDuke said....


Three New Mexico tribes have received Department of Agriculture grants for food and agriculture homeland security....


A Nebraska state judge on Monday ruled against a voter initiative that would expand casino gaming....


An oversight panel in Alaska has made recommendations to distribute Bering Sea fish and crab harvest shares among Alaska Native seafood companies....


Members of the Chumash Tribe of California are opposing a gun shooting range near a sacred site....


Alaska Native corporations have taken a lead role in cleaning up the "environmental mess" left by the federal government on the Pribilof Islands....


A federal judge is expected to rule this week on the disputed leadership of the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma....


Newly elected leaders of the Catawba Nation of South Carolina were refused access to the tribe's longhouse on Monday....


Two different Lumbee tribal organizations in North Carolina have received federal grants to start credit unions....


"After reading recent letters to the editor, it seems to me that many people have either, not read Jeff Benedict's book, or have read and did not understand it....


The United Keetoowah Band of Cherokees wants to intervene in a lawsuit over the Arkansas River of Oklahoma....


"When President John F Kennedy was assassinated, I saw it on television in the waiting room of the Minot Air Force Hospital....


Disney recently shot scenes for an upcoming film about a Lakota Sioux horse racer on the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana....


The Muwekma Ohlone Tribe of California once met with the mayor of a Bay Area city to discuss a possible casino....


A federal judge in California rejected a lawsuit challenging one of the Bush administration's first land-into-trust decisions....


The ex-boyfriend of a Lumbee woman who wants to compete in the Miss America pageant is facing a lawsuit over revealing photos he allegedly took of her....


The Senate Indian Affairs Committee will hold a hearing next week on federal recognition....


Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal is criticizing Assistant Secretary Neal McCaleb for holding a meeting with two Pequot tribes....


The chairman of the Crow Tribe of Montana resigned, the Associated Press reports....


Barring additional delays, the first American Indian will go into space in early November....

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