Tuesday, September 24, 2002

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The body of an Army officer was positively identified on Monday by military officials who failed to recover the Sioux tribal member despite an exhaustive search and an ongoing investigation into the circumstances of his death....

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Opponents of a Connecticut tribe suffered a major defeat on the Senate floor on Monday with the rejection of a moratorium on federal recognition....

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A federal judge on Monday ordered the Bush administration to recognize the governing body of an Oklahoma tribe even as he expressed doubts that his decision will resolve a long-running political and legal dispute....


Armed federal agents seized 227 head of cattle from two Western Shoshone sisters in Nevada, who fear their horses may be next....


The Senate on Monday continued to debate a controversial measure to implement President Bush's "Healthy Forests" initiative....


The Department of Interior and environmentalists have reached an agreement that allows drilling in a Colorado monument to move forward....


President Bush hasn't yet decided to veto an energy bill that doesn't allow development in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, according to Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham....


Sharon Clahchischilliage will make a campaign stop today in the Four Corners area of New Mexico....


Senator Jeff Bingaman (D-New Mexico) has introduced a bill to double the amount of money available to the Indian Reservation Road Program at the Bureau of Indian Affairs....


If gaming is expanded in Nebraska, it should be limited to the state's tribes, The Lincoln Journal Star argues in an editorial today....


"My sister-in-law is a language teacher at White Shield school, and she speaks fluently....


Three Connecticut towns agreed to join state attorney general Richard Blumenthal's challenge to the federal recognition of the historic Eastern Pequot Tribe....


The House today will consider a bill to study the water system for the Santee Sioux Tribe of Nebraska....


Minnesota's candidates for governor disagree about the storage of nuclear waste in their state....


A 15-year-old girl from the Alaska village of Chevak died in an four-wheeler accident on Saturday....


A North Carolina judge ordered an Eastern Cherokee man to turn over any revealing photos he may have of a Lumbee woman who was barred from the Miss America pageant over the debacle....


An Oneida Nation woman whose home has been threatened with demolition plans to avoid a tribal court trial for an alleged assault and violation of a court order....


The Tohono O'odham Nation's only hospital is being overwhelmed by Mexican immigrants seeking care, a tribal health administrator said....


Navajo Nation presidential candidate Joe Shirley's running mate is a lobbyist for a multinational corporation that wanted to start a mine near a Wisconsin reservation....


Connecticut's two Democratic senators were defeated on Monday in an attempt to halt the federal recognition process....


The Army has subpoenaed Internet e-mail accounts as part of a probe into the death of a soldier, The Middletown Times Herald-Record reports....


"It is a disgrace....


A private-public partnership in Montana will receive a three-year grant from the Department of Education for a project aimed at lowering the high drop out rate of Indian students....

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